airlift, sealift, and strategic positioning of personnel and equipment (Cohoon, 1989). The CRAF provides a part of the air lift component of strategic mobility. The remainder of the airlift component is provided by the aircraft and personnel of the Military Airlift Command, and by civilian aircraft and per sonnel committed to American airlift operations by other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organizations) countries under the NATO Allied Precommitted Civil Aircraft Program (NAPCAP), where those airlift requirements involve NATO reinforcement (Cohoon, 1989).
The combined airlift capacity of the Military Airlift Com mand, the CRAF, and the NAPCAP does not equal the maximum anti cipated emergency airlift requirement for the US (Cohoon, 1989). Thus, any development, such as the deregulation of the air transportation industry, which holds the potential to cause a deterioration in the nation's civilian aviation fleet, is a matter of national defense concern with respect to strategic mobility.
SECTION III
DEREGULATION OF THE AIR TRANSPORTATIONINDUSTRY IN THE US
In an economic context, the goal facing the country with respect to air transportation is the provision of adequate and safe air transportation in an economically efficient manner. Until the late 1970s, the solution approach to this goal was the regulation by government of the air transportation indus try. Subsequent to 1977, the solution approach shifted to deregulation.
The commercial airline industry in the US received its start in the mid 1920s from the airmail contracts let by the federal government (Moskowitz, Katz, and Levering, 1984). Con gress enacted the Kelly Air Mail Act in 1925. The first air mail contracts were let in 1926. Among the major American air lines which trace their beginnings to these airmail contracts are American Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Pan Ame...