Air & Space Power Journal articles from December 2003

Air & Space Power Journal archives from December 2003

Direct attack: enhancing counterland doctrine and joint air-ground operations.
December 22, 2003... THE EVOLUTION OF war fighting requires doctrine to be examined and adjusted to codify the best practices of new and evolving concepts that generate increased capabilities. For over a decade, America's military has conducted a series of...

Prelaunch notes.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2003... WE ARE PLEASED to announce the availability of a free subscription to the online version of Air and Space Power Journal. After you subscribe, we will add your E-mail address to our electronic distribution list. This allows us to automatically...

Ricochets and replies.(Letter to the Editor)
December 22, 2003... We encourage your comments via letters to the editor or comment cards. All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, Air and Space Power Journal, 401 Chennault Circle, Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6428. You can also send your comments by E-mail...

A century of air and space power.(Flight Lines)
December 22, 2003... AS THE WORLD celebrates its first century of powered flight, the significance of the Wright brothers contribution is evident in nearly every facet of modern-day life. Aviation's influence on the world's economies, agriculture, research,...

Normandy a modern air campaign?
December 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: The air war for western France during World War II adds a relevant perspective to modern issues of command and control and the current stress on air and space operations centers. It also serves as a shining example of...

The Wright brothers.
December 22, 2003... Orville and Wilbur Wright, sons of Milton Wright, a bishop in the United Brethren Church, changed the way we think about and interact with our world. Before their dramatic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 17 December 1903, conventional...

America's first air-land battle.
December 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: America's inaugural multisquadron fighter unit--the 1st Pursuit Group of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)--was created in May 1918. Only two months later, it fought in America's first-ever air-land battle for the...

The 1909 Wright military flyer.
December 22, 2003... Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, produced the first airplane in 1903 but were rebuffed in their initial attempt to interest the Army in it in 1905. They would not receive a sympathetic hearing until August 1907, when the Aeronautical...

Airpower, jointness, and transformation.
December 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: In the second century of manned flight, airpower may well be the transforming piece of the jointness puzzle--the instrument through which ground and naval forces could be integrated. An Air War College seminar, class of...

"Hap" Arnold.(Arnold, Henry H.)
December 22, 2003... Gen Henry H. "Hap" Arnold is an icon rising above all others in the development of American airpower. Although in his 42-year career he never took part in aerial combat himself, Arnold presided over the expansion of the US Army Air Forces...

Losing air superiority: a case study from the Second World War.
December 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Is the United States ready to deal with an opponent who employs asymmetric strategies in an attempt to wage a "poor man's air war . This case study of the Luftwaffe's efforts to cope with the loss of daylight air superiority...

Strategic leadership: defining the challenge.(Editorial)
December 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Exercising strategic leadership involves the manipulation of microscopic perceptions and macroscopic expectations--a complicated process. However, understanding the process is less complex. Toward that end, Colonel Guillot...

Maj Gen Benjamin D. Foulois: America's first military aviator.
December 22, 2003... Benjamin D. Foulois belonged to the first generation of US airmen who moved the Air Service from its rudimentary beginnings to full stature as an independent service. Born in Washington, Connecticut, in 1879, he enlisted as a private in the...

The not-so-forgotten war: fodder for your reading on the air war in Korea a half century later. *.
December 22, 2003... SOME YEARS AGO, Clay Blair published a good book on US experiences in Korea titled The Forgotten War It is forgotten no more--Blair helped revive that memory, as did the passing of the war's 50th anniversary. In 1950, we were feeling our way in...

Gen Curtis Emerson LeMay: father of Strategic Air Command.
December 22, 2003... Born in Ohio in 1906, Curtis LeMay saw his first airplane in flight at the age of four or five and became so excited that he tried to run after it. After graduating from Ohio State University, he entered the service as a flying cadet, earned...

Silent Wings at War: Combat Gliders in World War II.(Net Assessment)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by John L. Lowden. Smithsonian Institution Press (http://www.sipress.si.edu), 750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 4300, Washington, D.C. 20560-0950, 2002, 304 pages, $19.95 (softcover). In September 1944 Walter Cronkite, then a war correspondent for...

Tritium on Ice: the Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Kenneth D. Bergeron. MIT Press (http://www-mitpress.mit.edu), Five Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1493, 2002, 232 pages, $24.95 (hardcover). Since the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States has been at the...

Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Colin S. Gray. Frank Cass Publishers (http://www.frankcass.com). 5824 NE Hassalo Street, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, 2002, 310 pages, $52.50 (hardcover). In his foreword to this text, Williamson Murray lays bare one of the central...

Gradual Failure: the Air War over North Vietnam, 1965-1966.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Jacob Van Staaveren. Air Force History and Museums Program (http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/publications.htm), 200 McChord Street, Box 94, Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C. 20332-1111, 2002, 388 pages, $60.00 (hardcover). I have a...

Flankers: the New Generation.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Yefim Gordon (translated by Dmitriy Komissarov). Specialty Press/Midland Publishing (http://www.specialtypress.com), 39966 Grand Avenue, North Branch, Minnesota 55056, 9002, 198 pages, $97.95 (softcover). Flankers, the second entry in...

Out of the Italian Night: Wellington Bomber Operations, 1944-45.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Out of the Italian Night: Wellington Bomber Operations, 1944-45 by Maurice G. Lihou. Crowood Press/Airlife Publishing (http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk/780/index.asp), The Stable Block, Crowood Lane, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom SN8 2HR,...

Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Robert B. Kane. McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (http://www.mcfarlandpub.com), Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640, 2002, 279 pages, $45.00. Robert Kane seeks to discover why a few German officers chose disobedience over...

Protecting the American Homeland: a Preliminary Analysis.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Michael E. O'Hanlon et al. Brookings Institution Press (http://www.brook.edu/press/press_hp.htm), 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036-2188, 2002, 188 pages, $17.95 (softcover). In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks...

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Michael B. Oren. Oxford University Press (http://www.oup-usa.org), 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, 2002, 480 pages, $30.00. Michael Oren has written what will undoubtedly be a required text on the Arab-Israeli wars in...

Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Reina Pennington. University Press of Kansas (http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu), 2501 West 15th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66049-3905, 2002, 312 pages, $29.95. In some of the many thousands of books--both popular and scholarly--that deal...

U.S. War Plans: 1938-1945.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... edited by Steven T. Ross. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. (http://www.rienner.com), 1800 30th Street, Suite 314, Boulder, Colorado 80301, 2002, 400 pages, $89.95 (hardcover). U.S. War Plans: 1938-1945, edited by Steven T. Ross, a Naval War...

The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993-2000.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by William Zimmerman. Princeton University Press (http://www.pupress.princeton.edu), 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-5237, 2002, 250 pages, $65.00 (hardcover), $19.95 (softcover). Melding quantitative methodologies with...

Mach 3+: NASA/USAF YF-12 Flight Research, 1969-1979.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Monographs in Aerospace History no. 25, by Peter W. Merlin. NASA History Division, Office of External Affairs (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/history.html), NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 20546, 2002, 154 pages. (To obtain a...

Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot: Myth, Life and Politics.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Adrian Smith. Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalogue/catalogue. asp?Title_Id=0-333-77898-7), 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, 2001, 223 pages, $65.00. Adrian Smith's new account of World War I ace Edward...

Misguided Weapons: Technological Failure and Surprise on the Battlefield.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Azriel Lorber. Brassey's, Inc. (http://www.brasseysinc.com/index.htm), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, Virginia 20166, 2002, 304 pages, $26.95 (hardcover), $18.95 (softcover). Pity the poor air warrior. Where can he or she turn? Eliot...

Kittyhawks over the Sands: the Canadians and RCAF Americans.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Campaigns: MTO [Mediterranean Theater of Operations] no. 1, by Michel Lavigne and James F. Edwards. Lavigne Aviation Publications, P.O. Box 222, Victoriaville, Qc, Canada, G6P 6S8, 2002, 384 pages, $45.00. Since 1969 the outstanding book...

Faster, Further, Higher: Leading-Edge Aviation Technology since 1945.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... edited by Philip Jarrett. Putnam Aeronautical Books (http://www.chrysalisbooks.co.uk/books/publisher/putnam), 64 Brewery Road, London, United Kingdom N7 9NT, 2002, 256 pages, $53.85 (hardcover). Faster, Further, Higher is a very ambitious...

The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Efraim Karsh. Osprey Publishing Ltd. (http://www.ospreypublishing.com/titles/1841763713), Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LE United Kingdom, 2002, 96 pages, $14.95 (softcover). Efraim Karsh analyzes the bloody eight-year...

Stormchasers: the Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Toomey. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (http://www.wwnorton.com), 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10110, 2002, 224 pages, $25.95 (hardcover). Because of the number of variables at play and the effects of so many other unknowns, the...

The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Michael Russell Rip and James M. Hasik. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/usni.html), 2062 Generals Highway, Annapolis, Maryland 21401-6780, 2002, 448 pages, $48.95. From the outset, the authors emphasize the technological...

The Hostile Sky: a Hellcat Flyer in the Pacific.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by James W. Vernon. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/press/booksearch.htm), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402, 2002, 176 pages, $28.95 (hardcover). A hall century has gone by, and one must wonder whether America is as...

North American XB-70A Valkyrie.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... vol. 34, Warbird Tech series, by Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony Landis. Specialty Press (http://www.specialtypress.com), 39966 Grand Avenue, North Branch, Minnesota 55056, 2002, 104 pages, $16.95 (softcover). North American XB-70A Valkyrie, one...

The First World War: the Western Front, 1914-1916.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... by Peter Simkins. Osprey Publishing (http://www.ospreypublishing.com), Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, 2002, 95 pages, $14.95. This book, number 14 in Osprey Publishing's Essential Histories series, is the first of two...

F-117 Nighthawk.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Combat Legends, by Paul F. Crickmore. Crowood Press (http://www.crowoodpress.co.uk/780/index.asp), The Stable Block, Crowood Lane, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8, 2HR, England, 2003, 96 pages, $14.95 (softcover). One of the newest...

Mission debrief.
December 22, 2003... Air and Space Power Journal is always looking for good articles written by our readers. If you have something to say, send it to us. The Journal focuses on the operational and strategic levels of war. We are interested in articles that will...