Air & Space Power Journal articles from March 2009

Air & Space Power Journal archives from March 2009

Toward a new deterrent: analysis and recommendations for the commission on the strategic posture of the United States.(Senior Leader Perspectives)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction America's nuclear deterrent, which has kept us safe for over 60 years, is in grave danger of failing. Our nuclear strategy--still that of the Cold War--has little relevance to today's principal...

The use of airpower in combating terrorism in Iraq.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NATIONS HAVE USED their air forces to fight conventional wars and combat insurgents. Most air force planning, training, and preparation have depended upon a conventional view of warfare, and air forces have proven...

Flying, fighting, and space.(Focus Area)
March 22, 2009... THE MISSION OF the United States Air Force is to fly, fight, and win... in air, space, and cyberspace. Properly integrating military activities conducted in those three diverse operating domains presents a challenge on a par with...

Considering Air and Space Power Journal a foreign language asset and presenting the latest Chronicles Online Journal articles.(Prelaunch Notes)
March 22, 2009... THE AIR FORCE places a high priority on "developing leaders with the management acumen, cultural sophistication, international expertise, and language skills to successfully lead a diverse, globally engaged force." (1) Air and Space Power...

Preparing the F-15K coalition partner.(The Merge)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... WHY SPEND BILLIONS of dollars equipping our allies when we don't help them integrate into the fight? Although we have extensive programs in place to equip allies with world-class weapon systems, cultural barriers and differences in procedures...

Transforming United States Air Forces in Europe and empowering Poland: F-16s fly East.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... USAFE continues to transform itself... with a greater focus on Eastern Europe. --Gen Tom Hobbins, USAF, Retired Former Commander United States Air Forces in Europe Poland is probably the most pro-American society in Europe. --Lech...

Medals for mediocrity: how to restore meaning to Air Force decorations.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... I VIVIDLY REMEMBER MY first medal. As a 20-year-old airman first class in 1987, I received the joint Service Achievement Medal for winning the Defense Language Institute's Commandant's Award. Proud and excited, I knew that I'd accomplished...

The dilemmas of providing language instruction for the Us Air Force.(PIREPs)(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... IF ANYONE WERE to objectively compare the Air Force's program for having its Airmen learn a foreign language with that of the other US military services, the Air Force would not fare very well. Learning a foreign language simply hasn't been a...

The air base network serving French and coalition operations in Afghanistan.(Essay)
March 22, 2009... THE REQUIREMENT FOR an air base infrastructure near military theaters of operation remains a constant that applies equally to operations in Afghanistan. The air base remains an indispensable tool for the sustained and continuous application...

Guarding the high ocean: towards a new national-security space strategy through an analysis of us maritime strategy.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT IS THE nature of the medium of outer space from a geopolitical and "astropolitical" perspective? Is it a peaceful environment for shared exploration? Is it a free and open frontier for pursuit of commercial...

Soft power and space weaponization.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE UNITED STATES has plans to weaponize space and is already deploying missile-defense platforms. (1) Official, published papers outline long-term visions for space weapons, including direct-ascent antisatellite...

Examining space warfare: scenarios, risks, and US Policy implications.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE US MILITARY faces a security dilemma because of both the essential and increasingly vulnerable nature of its orbiting space assets. (1) The United States owns over 400 of the almost 900 active satellites in...

Emphasizing effect over domain: merging three organizations to enhance the efficacy of our nation's intelligence production.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AIR FORCE SPACE Command (AFSPC) is currently organized around a domain: it does things in and through space. Such organization is not optimal because it ignores synergies gained from effects-based organization--the...

The future of physician manpower in the air force reserve.(Quick-Look)
March 22, 2009... THE US AIR Force is transforming its medical capabilities to perform as an expeditionary force. This transformation includes reducing large, fixed facilities for health care, as well as training and preparing small, flexible health-care teams...

Strategy making for brown bars: fodder for your professional reading.('What Is Military History?', 'Louis Johnson and the Arming of America' and 'Strategic Challenges: America's Global Security Agenda' )(Book review)
March 22, 2009... What Is Military History? by Stephen Morillo and Michael E Pavkovic. Polity Press (http://www.polityco.uk), 65 Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 IUR, United Kingdom, 2006, 160 pages, $49.95 (hardcover), $19.95 (softcover). Louis Johnson and...

Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution by Richard M. Ketchum. Henry Holt and Company (http://www.henryholt.com), 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, 2004, 368 pages, $27.50 (hardcover). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid-America's First World War II Victory.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid-America's First World War II Victory by Craig Nelson. Penguin Group (http://us.penguingroup.com), 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, 2003, 448 pages, $16.00...

Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases edited by Peter Berkowitz. Hoover Press (http://www.hooverpress.org), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010, 2005, 196 pages, $15.00...

Aerospace Power in the Twenty-first Century: A Basic Primer.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Aerospace Power in the Twenty-first Century: A Basic Primer by Clayton K. S. Chun. Air University Press (http://aupress.au.af.mil), 131 West Shumacher Avenue, Maxwell AFB, Alabama 36112-5962, 2001, 356 pages, $29.00 (softcover). Available...

MacArthur.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... MacArthur by Richard B. Frank. Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave-usa.com),175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, 2007, 224 pages, $21.95 (hardcover). Douglas MacArthur has been one of the more iconic and controversial figures...

Space: The Frontiers of Modern Defence.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Space: The Frontiers of Modern Defence by Squadron Leader Kiran Krishan Nair. Knowledge World, 5A/4A Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002, 2006, 254 pages, $24.00 (hardcover). Most literature on military affairs in outer space is...

Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have by Justin Menkes. HarperBusiness, imprint of HarperCollins (http://www.harpercollins.com/ hc), 10 East 53d Street, New York, New York 10022, 2005, 336 pages, $27.95 (hardcover). Who...

Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Richard L. DiNardo. University Press of Kansas (http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu), 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4444, 2005, 320 pages, $34.95 (hardcover). In this...

Seeing the Elephant: The U.S. Role in Global Security.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Seeing the Elephant: The U.S. Role in Global Security by Hans Binnendijk and Richard L. Kugler. National Defense University Press and Potomac Books (http://www.potomacbooksinc.com), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, Virginia 20166, 2007, 336...

Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism by Daniel Byman. Cambridge University Press (http://us.cambridge.org), 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10013-2473, 2005, 380 pages, $30.00 (hardcover); 2007, $18.99 (softcover)....

The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Last Crusade: Americanism and the Islamic Reformation by Michael A. Palmer. Potomac Books (http://www.potomacbooksinc.com), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, Virginia 20166, 2006, 284 pages, $21.56 (hardcover), $14.36 (softcover). ...

The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought by Doug Beason. Da Capo Press (http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/home.jsp), Eleven Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142,...

Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War by Kenneth Allard. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/navalinstitutepress/index.asp), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5034, 2006, 256 pages, $26.95 (hardcover). Retired US Army...

Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 1, The Global Jihadist Movement and Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 2, The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 1, The Global Jihadist Movement and Beyond al-Qaeda: Part 2, The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe by Angel Rabasa et al. RAND Corporation (http://www.rand.org/publications/index.html), 1776 Main Street, P.O. Box...

Shadow and Stinger: Developing the AC-119G/K Gunships in the Vietnam War.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Shadow and Stinger: Developing the AC-119G/K Gunships in the Vietnam War by William Head. Texas A&M University Press Consortium (http:// www.tamu.edu/upress), John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street, 4354 TAMU, College Station, Texas...

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag Montefiore. Harvard University Press (http://www.hup.harvard.edu), 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, 2006, 720 pages, $35.00 (hardcover). Do you want good maps of a short land...

Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare, Information Age Transformation Series, by James Moffat. Command and Control Research Program (http://www.dodccrp.org), Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301, 2003, 161 pages (softcover). Available free...

The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... The Reconstruction of Warriors: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Guinea Pig Club by E. R. Mayhew. Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Limited (http://www.greenhillbooks.com), Park House, 1 Russell Gardens, London NWI 19NN, 2004,...

Space Power Integration: Perspectives from Space Weapons Officers.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Space Power Integration: Perspectives from Space Weapons Officers edited by Lt Col Kendall K. Brown, USAFR, PhD. Air University Press (http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress), 131 West Shumacher Avenue, Maxwell AFB, Alabama 36112-5962,...

Mission debrief.(Air and Space Power Journal)
March 22, 2009... Air and Space Power Journal, the US Air Force's professional journal, is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, and Chinese. Each version is independent and has an editor--a native speaker of the particular language and an...