Air & Space Power Journal articles from September 2003

Air & Space Power Journal archives from September 2003

A word from the chairman: shift to a global perspective.
September 22, 2003... In ancient India, six blind men encountered an elephant for the first time and quickly began to squabble about the nature of elephants. The first blind man bumped into the elephant's side and declared that the beast was...

Prelaunch notes.
September 22, 2003... SUMMER WAS A very busy time for the staff of the Air and Space Power Journal. In June we bid farewell to the director of the Airpower Research Institute (AR), Col Allan W. Howey, who retired from the Air Force. He will be greatly missed! We...

Regional security and air and space power.(Flight Lines)
September 22, 2003... AS THIS ISSUE of ASPJ goes to press, the strategic and operational situation in much of the world has changed once again. The challenges to US security and interests are simultaneously real, intense, and ill defined. US forces find themselves...

Emotional intelligence.(Ricochets and Replies)
September 22, 2003... I was so inspired by Lt Col Sharon Latour and Lt Gen Bradley Hosmer's article ("Emotional Intelligence: Implications for All United States Air Force Leaders," winter 2002) that I felt compelled to write a short message of thanks! To be...

Direct attack: a needed concept.(Ricochets and Replies)
September 22, 2003... My compliments to Lt Col Phil Haun on his well-written article "Direct Attack--A Counterland Mission" (summer 2003). Well done. Your readership may be interested to know that this particular subject was raised at the Hap Arnold Doctrine...

Ira C. Eaker Award winners for the 2002-2003 academic year.
September 22, 2003... First Place Lt Col Kenneth Keskel "The Oath of Office: A Historical Guide to Moral Leadership" (Winter 2002) Second Place Lt Col (sel) S. Didi Kuo "High Ground over the Homeland: Issues in the Use of Space Assets...

Who we are and what we do: the evolution of the Air Force's core competencies.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Colonel Krisinger analyzes the process that produced the Air Force's original core competencies and offers insights into how recent changes to them will affect the air and space power culture. The degree to which airmen...

NAVSTAR GPS: "where am I? Are we there yet?".
September 22, 2003... ASPJ STAFF * For centuries, military commanders and travelers have wanted to know their location, objective, and--perhaps more commonly-whether they had yet arrived. The answers to their questions became clearer and more precise in the...

Cost-benefit economics: enhancing national security and air and space power.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: The changing calculus of direct and indirect costs associated with warfare implies a need to alter strategy and doctrine. New technologies, the varying character of competition between states, and the proliferation of...

Strategic airlift the C-5 Galaxy.
September 22, 2003... ASPJ STAFF The C-5 is a formidable aircraft. The giant "T-tail" entered the active inventory on 17 December 1969 and has been a source of national strength, pride, and worry ever since. Its dramatic successes, such as Operation Nickel...

Latin American countries with space programs: colleagues or competitors?
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Colonel Newberry's three-tiered analysis of Latin American space programs identifies (1) owner/operator states with mature space programs, (2) material participants with well-developed research and intellectual...

Robbie Risner.
September 22, 2003... When the term American hero comes to mind, so does the name Robbie Risner. Born into modest circumstances in 1925 in Arkansas, James Robinson Risner enlisted in the US Army Air Forces in 1943. After getting his wings, he was assigned to duty...

Air expeditionary access: the African connection.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Nearly a decade of increasing globalization has reached Africa in fits and starts, leaving a legacy of social tensions, poverty, disease, and conflict. US national-security strategy hinges on dealing with such conditions...

Africa Contingency Operations Training Assistance: developing training partnerships for the future of Africa.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Shifting the emphasis from direct US involvement in African peacekeeping toward support for the Africa Contingency Operations Training Assistance program promises to create an "African solution for Africa." The program...

China and India: friends or foes?
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Even though China and India have a 20-year track record of cooperation, both countries have ample justification for proceeding with caution. On the one hand, US hegemony and greater US involvement in Asia may push the two...

Operation Linebacker II.
September 22, 2003... By October of 1972, peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam had come to a standstill as America tried to extricate itself from the nightmare war in Southeast Asia. President Richard M. Nixon, frustrated by communist...

The Chinese Air Force and air and space power.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Analysts who predict that China will become the next peer competitor of the United States often cite as evidence China's large population and latent industrial potential. If they are correct, a critical component of...

Iraq, preemption, and the views of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Colonel Hammock examines the generally favorable actions and views of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary in response to the announced US strategy of preemption and the recent implementation of that policy in Iraq. ...

The Benelux Deployable Air Task Force: a model for EU/NATO defense force integration.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Colonel Orr observes the success of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg in combining aspects of their individual military strengths to create the Benelux Deployable Air Task Force, a rapid-response expeditionary...

Words and weapons: the power of discourse.
September 22, 2003... Editorial Abstract: Air Force culture favors technological and quantifiable solutions to most problems. However the methods by which information gets disseminated are as important as the technology used, and the accurate flow of information...

American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries.
September 22, 2003... 2 vols., edited by Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired. Air University Press (http://www.maxwell. af.mil/au/aul/aupress), 131 West Shumacher Avenue, Maxwell AFB, Alabama 36112-6615, 2009, 592 pages (vol. 1), 458 pages (vol. 9), $47.00 (vol....

On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf.
September 22, 2003... by Owen Connelly. Princeton University Press (http://www.pupress.princeton. edu), 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-5237, 2002, 368 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). Given the numerous published works on leadership in general and...

P-40 Warhawk Aces of the MTO.
September 22, 2003... Osprey Aircraft of the Aces Series no. 43, by Carl Molesworth. Osprey Publishing (http://www.ospreypublishing. com/index.shtml), Elms Court, Chapel Way, Bofley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom, 2002, 96 pages, $18.95. Osprey Publishing...

Billy Mitchell.
September 22, 2003... by James J. Cooke. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. (http://www.rienner.com), 1800 30th Street, Suite 314, Boulder, Colorado 80301, 2002, 305 pages, $49.95. Billy Mitchell has always been a controversial figure in American military...

American Military Aviation: The Indispensable Arm.
September 22, 2003... by Charles J. Gross. Texas A&M University Press (http://www.tamu.edu/upress), John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street, 4354 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-4354, 2002, 382 pages, $35.00 (hardcover). Dr. Charles Gross, a retired Air...

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II.
September 22, 2003... by Anne Noggle. Texas A&M University Press (http://www.tamu.edu/upress), John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street, 4354 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, 2002, 336 pages, $24.95 (softcover). This oral history, complemented by a series of...

Air Power History: Turning Points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo.
September 22, 2003... edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray. Frank Cass Publishers (http://www. frankcass.com), 5824 NE Hassalo Street, Port land, Oregon 97213-3644, 2002, 362 pages, $64.50 (hardcover), $26.50 (softcover). By all reports, the conference...

The Warriors: Reflections of a Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, and Veteran of the Air Wars over Vietnam.
September 22, 2003... by Robert E. Ross. Yucca Tree Press (http:// yuccatree.com), Barbed Wire Publishing, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005, 2002, 304 pages, $25.00 (hardcover). As new generations of airmen filter into the ranks, the...

Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World War.
September 22, 2003... by David L. Bashow. McArthur & Company Publishing, Limited (http://www. mcarthur-co.com/books.html), 322 King Street West, Suite 402, Toronto, Ontario M5J 1J2, 2001, 210 pages, $50.00 (hardcover). Dave Bashow, assistant professor of...

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945.
September 22, 2003... by Tami Davis Biddle. Princeton University Press (http://www.pupress. princeton.edu), 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-5237, 2002, 408 pages, $45.00 (hardcover). Tami Biddle has written an important and innovative...

Arms Control: Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment.
September 22, 2003... edited by Jeffrey A. Larsen. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. (http://www.rienner. com), 1800 30th Street, Suite 314, Boulder, Colorado 80301, 2002, 413 pages, $65.00 (hardcover), $24.50 (softcover). In the years since the dissolution of...

We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.
September 22, 2003... by Thomas P. Stafford with Michael Cassutt. Smithsonian Institution Press (http://www. sipress.si.edu), 750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 4300, Washington, D.C. 20560-0950, 2002, 224 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). From schoolboy in Oklahoma to plebe...

Vietnam Air Losses: United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973.
September 22, 2003... by Chris Hobson. Midland Publishing, available from Specialty Press (http://www.specialtypress.com), 39966 Grand Avenue, North Branch, Minnesota 55056, 2001, 192 pages, $29.95 (softcover). The headline of a front-page story in the New...

Swedish Signal Intelligence, 1900-1945.
September 22, 2003... by C. G, McKay and Bengt Beckman. Frank Cass Publishers (http://www.frankcass.com), 5824 NE Hassalo Street, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, 2002, 310 pages, $49.50 (hardcover). Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is seldom covered in historical...

Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World.
September 22, 2003... by Ralph Peters. Stackpole Books (http://www. stackpolebooks.com/cgi-bin/StackpoleBooks. storefront), 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-6921, 2002, 368 pages, $22.95 (hardcover). Ralph Peters had an interesting military...

War of the Aeronauts: The History of Ballooning in the Civil War.
September 22, 2003... by Charles M. Evans. Stackpole Books (http://www.stackpolebooks.com/ cgi-bin/StackpoleBooks.storefront), 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-6921, 2002, 368 pages, $27.95 (hardcover). First-time author Charles M. Evans...

The Clinton Wars: The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers.
September 22, 2003... by Ryan C. Hendrickson. Vanderbilt University Press (http://www.vanderbilt. edu/vupress/index.html), VU Station B 351813, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1813, 2002, 240 pages, $49.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (softcover). Ryan Hendrickson's The...

Airwar: Essays on Its Theory and Practice.
September 22, 2003... by Phillip S. Meilinger. Frank Cass Publishers (http://www.frankcass.com), 5824 NE Hassalo Street, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, 2003, 288 pages, $67.50 (hardcover), $26.00 (softcover). Phillip Meilinger, a prolific and well-respected...

Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps.
September 22, 2003... by James McCudden. V.C. Greenhill Books/Stackpole Books (http://www.stackpolebooks.com), 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-6921, 2000, 288 pages, $19.95 (softcover). This paperback reprint of the classic Royal Flying...

Storm from the Sea.
September 22, 2003... by Peter Young. Greenhill Books/Stackpole Books (http://www.stackpole books.com), 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-6921, 2002, 240 pages, $18.95 (softcover). Storm from the Sea, a reprint of British brigadier Peter...

B-25 Mitchell Units of the MTO.
September 22, 2003... Combat Aircraft Series 32 by Steve Pace. Osprey Publishing (http://www.ospreypublishing.com), Elms Court, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom, 2002, 96 pages, $19.95 (softcover). In B-25 Mitchell Units of the MTO, Steve...

MiG Alley: Sabres vs. MiGs over Korea.
September 22, 2003... by Warren E. Thompson and David R. McLaren. Specialty Press (http://www.specialtypress.com), 39966 Grand Avenue, North Branch, Minnesota 55056, 2002, 192 pages, $39.95 (hardcover). This is a fine book on a great airplane. MiG Alley is...

Mission debrief.
September 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...