Air & Space Power Journal articles from March 2008

Air & Space Power Journal archives from March 2008

Developmental planning: the key to future war-fighter capabilities.(Senior Leader Perspectives)
March 22, 2008... While the [global war on terror] is the near-term priority, we firmly believe that the nation and the Air Force must prepare for emerging global threats at all levels of warfare....In fact, we believe it's time to re-focus on and increase the...

Lorenz on Leadership: Part 2.(Senior Leader Perspectives)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the summer of 2005, when I was director of Financial management and Comptroller at the Pentagon, Air and Space Power Journal published an article of mine titled "Lorenz on Leadership." Now, as the commander of Air...

Ricochets and replies and presenting the latest chronicles online journal articles.(Prelaunch Notes)
March 22, 2008... AIR AND SPACE power Journal (ASPJ), the professional journal of the US Air Force, encourages worldwide debate about military topics by publishing articles that critique current methods and propose new ideas. Because feedback from readers is...

Chinese servicemen's views of USAF Airmen and Education.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... I read Sr Col Wang Qigui's section of the article "Chinese Servicemen's Views of USAF Airmen and Education" (Winter 2007) with great interest to gain a perspective of what a communist political commissar thought about the American military...

Nash in Najaf.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... I read with great interest Dr. Hank Brightman's article "Nash in Najaf: Game Theory and Its Applicability to the Iraqi Conflict" (Fall 2007). As the author admits, though, by concentrating on the potential for Pareto improvement between...

The Hyphenated Airman.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... In response to Lt Col Robert Poynor's article "The 'Hyphenated Airman': Some Observations on Service Culture" (Fall 2007), I would say that the Air Force seems to be undergoing the same identity crisis found in somemonopolistic corporate...

Revisiting Leadership in the Armed Forces.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... Thanks for publishing Air Commodore Aslam Bazmi's worthy treatise "Revisiting Leadership in the Armed Forces" (Fall 2007). It's one of the best articles I've ever read! The air commodore captures in a few lines all the leadership lectures and...

A Rescue Force for the World: an author replies.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... After reading Lt Col John Taylor's comment (Ricochets and Replies, Winter 2007) about our article "A Rescue Force for the World: Adapting Airpower to the Realities of the Long War" (Fall 2007), I agree that there is no doubt that all combat...

A Rescue Force for the World.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... Not to denigrate the article "A Rescue Force for the World: Adapting Airpower to the Realities of the Long War" by Lt Col Marc DiPaolo and others (Fall 2007), but is the Air Force trying to reinvent the wheel? Anyone who visits the Air Force...

Defining Information Operations Forces.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... In their article "Defining Information Operations Forces: What Do We Need?" (Summer 2007), Maj Timothy Franz and his coauthors correctly identify the Air Force's lack of an information operations (IO) career field as a factor that limits "the...

The Air Force's missing doctrine.(Ricochets and Replies)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... In his interesting and enjoyable article "The Air Force's Missing Doctrine: How the US Air Force Ignores Counterinsurgency" (Spring 2006), Maj Kenneth Beebe seeks to explain the need to draft a suitable counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine to...

Doctrine and technology.(Focus Area)
March 22, 2008... GEN CURTIS LEMAY once stated, "at the very heart of warfare lies doctrine. It represents the central beliefs for waging war in order to achieve victory. Doctrine is of the mind, a network of faith and knowledge reinforced by experience which...

We are at War with terrorists, not Muslims.(The Merge)
March 22, 2008... After reAding Col William darley's article "Strategic imperative: the necessity for Values operations as opposed to information operations in iraq and Afghanistan" (Spring 2007), I believe that the author misconstrued the nature of the current...

Network-centric operations: a need for adaptation and efficiency.(The Merge)
March 22, 2008... IN AN ARTICLE published in 1998, Vice adm arthur K. Cebrowski and John J. Garstka argued that "network-centric warfare and all of its associated revolutions in military affairs grow out of and draw their power from the fundamental changes in...

Whatever happened to strategic attack?(The Merge)
March 22, 2008... ALL OF WAR is about will. Those who wage war follow Clausewitz's dictum: "To impose our will on the enemy is [war's] object. To secure that object, we must render the enemy powerless" (emphasis in original). (1) Down through history, rendering...

The need for developmental planning.(PIREPs)
March 22, 2008... IN TODAY'S RAPIDLY evolving technology environment, new war-fighting capabilities often seem to emerge virtually overnight. Quick reaction capability (QRC) programs such as the massive ordnance air burst (MOAB) have generated substantial...

Excellence in leadership: lessons learned from top-performing units.(PIREPs)
March 22, 2008... In 2004 I became the new executive assistant for leadership in the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Because of my responsibility for training OSI personnel assigned to leadership positions, I had a particular interest in...

Exposing the information domain myth: a new concept for air force and information operations doctrine.
March 22, 2008... The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. --John Maynard Keynes [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2001...

Range and persistence: the keys to global strike.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EVEN BEFORE THE invention of the airplane, visionaries had debated what effect it would have on warfare; indeed, novelists wrote of aerial armadas that would defeat the tyranny of terrain. Aircraft would fly over...

Weather and the calculated risk: exploiting forecast uncertainty for operational risk management.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Air Force SMART Operations 21 (AFSO21) has prompted a fresh look at ways to improve combat capability, including enhancing the decision-making process. (1) Highly effective and efficient operations require optimal...

Integrating weather in net-centric warfare: a case for refocusing human resources in air force weather.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE WEATHER BRIEFER is obsolete, a victim of net-centricity. In a world where everyone is connected, people affected by weather will access related information directly and integrate it into their decision processes....

A look down the slippery slope: domestic operations, outsourcing, and the erosion of military culture.
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This article takes the form of a fictional speech given by a senior Air Force officer to the Air Command and Staff College's (ACSC) class of 2017. In his presentation, the officer (himself a graduate of the class of...

Fiction: a higher form of truth?(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Art of Uncontrolled Flight by Kim Ponders. HarperCollins Publishers (http://www.harpercollins.com), 10 East 53d Street, New York, New York 10022, 2005, 192 pages, $19.95 (hardcover); 2007, 208 pages, $13.95 (trade paperback). The Last...

Effects-based information battle in the muslim world.(Quick-Look)
March 22, 2008... IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States, western political leaders and policy makers were quick to recognize publicly that Islam and the majority of its followers were not to blame for the violence....

One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam by Timothy N. Castle. Columbia University Press (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup), 61 W. 62nd Street, New York, New York 10023, 1999, 368 pages,...

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: The Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: The Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW by Lt Col Alexander Jefferson, USAF, retired. Fordham University Press (http://www.fordhampress.com), University Box L, Bronx, New York 10458, 2005, 133 pages, $29.95...

Lockheed's SR-71 "Blackbird" Family: A-12, F-12, M-21, D-21, SR-71.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lockheed's SR-71 "Blackbird" Family: A-12, F-12, M-21, D-21, SR-71 by James Goodall and Jay Miller. Midland Publishing (http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=480), Riverdene Business Park, Molesey Road, Hersham, Surrey KT12...

Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War by William M. Arkin. Air University Press (http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress), 131 West Shumacher Avenue, Maxwell AFB, Alabama 36112-5962, 2007, 356 pages, $30.00 (softcover)....

Where Are the WMDs? The Reality of Chem-Bio Threats on the Home Front and the Battlefield.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Where Are the WMDs? The Reality of Chem-Bio Threats on the Home Front and the Battlefield by Al Mauroni. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/press/press.html), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis,Maryland 21402-5034, 2006, 272 pages, $28.95...

I Want You! The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... I Want You! The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force by Bernard D. Rostker. RAND Corporation (http://www.rand.org/pubs), 1776 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138, 2006, 832 pages, $48.50 (hardcover), $68.50...

Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations against the USSR.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations against the USSR by Curtis Peebles. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/press/press.html), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5034, 2005, 352 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). Despite the...

With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator's War over Germany and Japan.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator's War over Germany and Japan, North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series no. 2, by Ralph H. Nutter. University of North Texas Press (http://www.unt.edu/untpress), P.O. Box 311336,...

American Defense Policy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... American Defense Policy, 8th ed., edited by Paul J. Bolt, Damon V. Coletta, and Collins G. Shackelford Jr. John Hopkins University Press (http://www.press.jhu.edu), 2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363, 2005, 496 pages,...

Stand Well Clear: More Adventures in Military Aviation.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Stand Well Clear: More Adventures in Military Aviation byD.K.Tooker.Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/press/press.html), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5034, 2003, 192 pages, $28.95 (hardcover). Author D. K. Tooker, a...

In Their Own Words: Conversations with the Astronauts and Men Who Led America's Journey into Space.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... In Their Own Words: Conversations with the Astronauts and Men Who Led America's Journey into Space edited by Scott Sacknoff. SpaceBusiness.com (http://www.spacebusiness.com), P.O. Box 5752, Bethesda, Maryland 20824-5752, 2003, 224 pages, $14.95...

Filling the Ranks: Transforming the U.S. Military Personnel System.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Filling the Ranks: Transforming the U.S. Military Personnel System, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSI) Studies in International Security, edited by Cindy Williams. MIT Press (http://www-mitpress.mit.edu), 55 Hayward...

The Rising Tide: A Novel of the Second World War.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Rising Tide: A Novel of the Second World War by Jeff Shaara. Ballantine Books (http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg), 1745 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, 2006, 576 pages, $27.95 (hardcover). Author Joseph E. Persico has said that Jeff...

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks. Penguin Group (http://www.penguinputnam.com), 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, 2006, 416 pages, $27.95 (hardcover). Thomas E. Ricks--senior Pentagon...