Air & Space Power Journal articles from September 2007

Air & Space Power Journal archives from September 2007

Revisiting leadership in the armed forces.(Senior Leader Perspective)
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many books and articles have extensively discussed the subject of leadership. In dealing with some of its aspects, therefore, one will likely repeat (albeit somewhat differently) what someone has already said....

Celebrating the Air Force's 60th birthday and presenting the latest Chronicles Online Journal article.(Prelaunch Notes)
September 22, 2007... The US Air Force's 2006 Vision Document reminds Airmen to "never forget that behind us is a proud and lasting heritage and in front of us is a limitless horizon." (1) As we celebrate our service's 60th birthday, we recall our heritage,...

Coalition operations.(Focus Area)
September 22, 2007... According to Joint Publication (JP) 3-16, Multinational Operations, "a coalition is an ad hoc arrangement between two or more nations for common action. Coalitions are formed by different nations with different objectives, usually for a...

Staying in touch.(maintaining relationship with foreign military officers)
September 22, 2007... The DEPARTMENT of Defense (DOD) has not positioned itself to efficiently and effectively exploit continuing personal relationships between its military officers and international officers. Although the department spends millions of dollars...

The "hyphenated Airman": some observations on service culture.
September 22, 2007... WHEN I ENTERED the Air Force in the early 1970s, I could relate to my job on several levels. First, I was an Airman, part of a military service with a proud and powerful, yet short, history. Second, I was part of Strategic Air Command, Gen...

The Sputnik legacy: 50 years in retrospect.(Vignette)
September 22, 2007... FOR ITS SMALL size, the metal sphere that hurtled into Earth orbit 50 years ago on 4 October 1957 has had an extraordinarily large influence on human events. Sputnik produced the immediate effect of great pride for the soviet Union and great...

A new form of air warfare.(PIREPs)
September 22, 2007... ON 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 (9/11), four American commercial airliners were hijacked by 19 fanatical muslim terrorists. Three of the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The fourth...

The Servicio de Vigilancia Aerea: defending Costa Rican sovereignty.
September 22, 2007... A VIDEO ON THE popular YouTube Web site shows a dramatic scene in which paramedics give first aid to the inhabitants of an unspecified region affected by floods and landslides. Below, very discreetly, a McDonnell Douglas MD-500 helicopter...

Nash in Najaf: game theory and its applicability to the Iraqi conflict.
September 22, 2007... YOU, THE IRAQI army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy." (1) This call for solidarity amongst indigenous security forces (ISF) and domestic insurgents (DI) by Shiite cleric and leader...

Predator command and control: an Italian perspective.
September 22, 2007... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Editorial Abstract: The author, an Italian Air Force officer, compares operations with Italian Predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Iraq with past and present US Predator doctrine and operations. After a brief...

Military institutional communication its geostrategic importance.
September 22, 2007... Since the end of World War II, the US military has recognized the importance of military institutional communication and has used academic-professional journals as a prime medium for conducting it. Reading the editorial in the fourth-quarter...

Offensive airpower with Chinese characteristics: development, capabilities, and intentions.
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the 50th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) in November 1999, Chinese president Jiang Zemin announced that China would "strive to build a powerful, modernized People's Air Force that...

A rescue force for the world: adapting airpower to the realities of the long war.
September 22, 2007... THE QUADRENNIAL DEFENSE Review Report begins with a simple statement: "The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war." (1) With that understated introduction to the lexicon, the contest known as the long war is now...

The Cuban missile crisis: forty-five years in the balance.(Vignette)
September 22, 2007... DURING OCTOBER 1962, the world was riveted by the events of the Cuban missile crisis, when the United States and Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war. The crisis could have ended in Armageddon since US forces were preparing two...

True confessions of an ex-chauvinist: fodder for your professional reading on women and the military.(List)
September 22, 2007... IT WAS 5 June 1953. One of the world's great feminists (my mother) pinned one of the yellow bars on my new uniform. Talk about working outside the home--a single parent, she had done that every day of her life! Talk about women in combat--I...

Revised USAF doctrine publication: Air Force Doctrine Document 2-1.8, Counter-Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations.(Doctrine Note)
September 22, 2007... THE THREAT OR use of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons by hostile regimes and terrorists represents one of the most difficult challenges facing our nation and our air Force." So observes Maj Gen allen G. Peck, commander,...

Space: The Frontiers of Modern Defence.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Space: The Frontiers of Modern Defence by K. K. Nair. Knowledge World (http://knowledgeworldonline.com/index.htm), 5A/4A Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, 2006, 254 pages, $25.00 (hardcover). Early in...

A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces by John Nadler. Presidio Press (Random House Publishing Group) (http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg), 1745 Broadway, 18th floor, New York, New York 10019,...

Liaison Pilot.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Liaison Pilot by James R. Bryce. Sunflower University Press, 2002, 120 pages, $10.95. Flying by visual rules in marginal weather without radios says much about the times and survivors of such a training regimen. During World War II, the...

Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Forging the Shield: Eisenhower and National Security for the 21st Century edited by Dennis E. Showalter. Imprint Publications (http://www.imprint-chicago.com), 207 E. Ohio Street, no. 377, Chicago, Illinois 60611, 2005, 256 pages, $24.95...

Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail by Barry Rosenberg and Catherine Macaulay. William Morrow (http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/ index.aspx?imprintid=518003&HCHP=TI_William+Morrow), HarperCollins, 10 East...

Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive by Stephen P. Randolph. Harvard University Press (http://www.hup.harvard.edu), 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, 2007, 416 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). ...

From POW to Blue Angel: The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... From POW to Blue Angel: The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes by Jim Armstrong. University of Oklahoma Press (http://www.oupress.com), 2800 Venture Drive, Norman, Oklahoma 73069-8216, 2006, 317 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). Jim Armstrong's...

300 dias en Afganistan.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... 300 dias en Afganistan by Natalia Aguirre Zimerman. Editorial Anagrama, S.A. (http://www.anagrama-ed.es), Pedro de la Creu, 58, 08034 Barcelona, Spain, 2006, 192 pages, $15.00. Why would military professionals read a Colombian...

Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare by Hy S. Rothstein. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/press/press.html), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402, 2006, 224 pages, $26.95 (hardcover). The initial...

The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950 by Robert Wohl. Yale University Press (http://www.yale.edu/yup), P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, Connecticut 065209040, 2005, 376 pages, $39.95 (hardcover). Air...

Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age by Daniel M. Gerstein. Praeger (http://www.greenwood.com/praeger.aspx), 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881, 2005, 288 pages, $44.95 (hardcover). Daniel M....

Battle-Wise: Seeking Time-Information Superiority in Networked Warfare.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Battle-Wise: Seeking Time-Information Superiority in Networked Warfare by David C. Gompert, Irving Lachow, and Justin Perkins. Center for Technology and National Security Policy (http://www.ndu.edu/CTNSP/contact.html), National Defense...

Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry by Mike Gruntman. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=2), 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Suite 500, Reston, Virginia...

The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War by John M. Shaw. University Press of Kansas (http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu), 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4444, 2005, 352 pages, $34.95 (hardcover). ...

And Nothing Is Said: Wartime Letters, August 5, 1943-April 21, 1945.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... And Nothing Is Said: Wartime Letters, August 5, 1943-April 21, 1945 by Michael N. Ingrisano Jr. Sunflower University Press, 2002, 540 pages, $22.95 (softcover). The title of Michael Ingrisano's book--And Nothing Is Said--is misleading....

Buffaloes over Singapore: RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Dutch Brewster Fighters in Action over Malaya and the East Indies, 1941-1942.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Buffaloes over Singapore: RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Dutch Brewster Fighters in Action over Malaya and the East Indies, 1941-1942 by Brian Cull with Paul Sortehaug and Mark Haselden. Grub Street / the Basement, 10 Chivalry Road, London, SW11 1HT,...

Battle-Tested: Carrier Aviation in Afghanistan and Iraq.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Battle-Tested: Carrier Aviation in Afghanistan and Iraq by Rebecca Grant. Iris Press (http://www.irisresearch.com), 236 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Suite 204, Washington, DC 20002, 2005, 187 pages, $45.43 (softcover). Rebecca Grant has done...

Warriors and Scholars: A Modern War Reader.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Warriors and Scholars: A Modern War Reader edited by Peter B. Lane and Ronald E. Marcello. University of North Texas Press (http://www.unt.edu/untpress), P.O. Box 311336, Denton, Texas 76203-1336, 2005, 320 pages, $24.95 (hardcover). ...

Old Glory Stories: American Combat Leadership in World War II.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Old Glory Stories: American Combat Leadership in World War II by Cole C. Kingseed. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/press/press.html), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 214025034, 2006, 280 pages, $36.95 (hardcover). Although...

Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer."(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" by David Cesarani. Da Capo Press (http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/home.jsp), Eleven Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, 2006, 368 pages,...

Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success by Anthony H. Cordesman. Praeger Publishers (http://www.praeger.com), 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881-5007, 2005, 440 pages, $49.95 (hardcover). Readers will most likely...