Goal of Agile Combat Employment?

• A. To complicate or negate adversary responses by complicating the enemy's targeting process and creating political and operational dilemmas for the enemy.
• B. To achieve complete air superiority in every theater.
• C. To minimize cross-domain collaboration.
• D. To centralize decision-making at higher headquarters.

Answer: (A)

Agile Combat Employment centers on dispersing airpower across a network of dispersed, often austere locations and moving with speed and flexibility. This approach makes it harder for an adversary to locate, fix, and strike the bulk of the force, forcing them to account for uncertain timing and location and to invest in broader, more complex targeting. By creating a shifting, less predictable operating picture, ACE heightens political and operational dilemmas for the enemy and complicates their targeting decisions. The goal is about maintaining pressure and tempo through agility and decentralization, not achieving blanket air superiority in every theater, and it relies on cross-domain collaboration and rapid, bottom-up decision-making to exploit opportunities as they arise.