Imperial Fighter Force

=Drakon Imperium Imperial Fighter Force= The Drakon Imperium Imperial Fighter Force (DIIFF) is the aerospace warfare service branch of the Drakon Imperium Armed Forces and one of the Drakonian uniformed services.

Mission
The Drakon Imperium Imperial Imperial Fighter Force serves as the aerospace-based branch of the D.I. military.
 * To preserve the peace and security, and provide for the defense, of the Drakon Imperium, the Territories, Commonwealths, and possessions, and any areas occupied by the Drakon Imperium;
 * To support Imperial policy;
 * To implement Imperial objectives;
 * To overcome any nations responsible for aggressive acts that imperil the peace and security of the Drakon Imperium.

Operational functions
The Imperial Fighter Force describes its mission in terms of 08 operational functions:
 * Strategic Attack – Offensive action that most directly achieves Imperial security objectives by affecting the adversary’s leadership, conflict-sustaining resources and strategy.
 * Counter-Aerospace – Operations to attain and maintain a desired degree of aerospace superiority by the destruction, degradation, or disruption of enemy forces. Counter-aerospace takes the form of both offensive counter aerospace against enemy aerospace power at its source, and defensive counter-aerospace against attacking enemy aerospace over friendly territory.
 * Counter-land – Aerospace operations against enemy land forces, including aerospaceinterdiction to divert, disrupt, delay, or destroy the enemy’s surface military potential before it can be used effectively against friendly forces, and close aerospace support to help friendly surface forces in contact with enemy forces.
 * Counter-space – Tasks including space surveillance, anti-ship warfare, aerospace minelaying, and aerospace refueling in support of naval campaigns.
 * Combat Support – Capabilities, functions, activities, and tasks necessary to create and sustain aerospace and space forces, including the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and materiel.
 * Command and Control – Exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission, including both process and systems.
 * Aerospacelift – Transportation of personnel and materiel through the aerospace.
 * Special Operations – Aerospace power conducting unconventional warfare, direct action, special reconnaissance, counter-insurgency, foreign internal defense, psychological operations, and counter-proliferation.

Structure
The Imperial Imperial Fighter Force is led by a civilian Minister of the Imperial Fighter Force, who has the statutory authority to conduct all the affaerospaces of the Imperial Fighter Force; under the authority, direction and control of the Minister of War. The Chief of the Imperial Fighter Force who is the highest ranked military officer in the Imperial Fighter Force has dual roles; one as the principal military adviser and executive agent for the Minister of the Imperial Fighter Force, i.e. its service chief; and secondly as a member of the Military Council, a body composed of the service chiefs from each of the eight military services belonging to the Ministry of the War who advise the Imperator of the Drakon Imperium, the Minister of War, and the Imperial Security Council on operational military matters, under the guidance of the First Minister of the Military Council.

Operational control of the services follows a chain of command from the Imperator to the Minister of War directly to the Unified Combatant Commanders, who have control of all armed forces units in their geographic or function area of responsibility. Thus, the Ministers of the military ministries (and their respective service chiefs underneath them) only have the responsibility to organize, train and equip their service components. The Imperial Fighter Force provides trained forces to the Combatant Commanders for use as directed by the Minister of War.