Recently added articles from Air & Space Power Journal:
Selecting ASPJ Focus Areas and Presenting the Latest Chronicles Online Journal Articles
Oct 01, 2008; ... AIR AND SPACE Power Journal (ASPJ), the professional journal of the US Air Force, publishes thought-provoking articles about flying and fighting in air, space, and Cyberspace. Military activities in our service's three operational domains are diverse, so we focus each quarterly ASPJ issue on a ...
Airpower Imbalance: Nuclear Pakistan's Achilles' Heel
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE OVERT NUCLEARIZATION of India and Pakistan in May 1998 drastically altered the military landscape of South Asia. Military planners on both sides now had to grapple with the additional strategic doctrinal dilemmas and considerations of deterrence, first use of nuclear weapons, counterforce ...
Chinese Airmen Stepping through the International Gateway
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editor's Note: PIREP is aviation shorthand for pilot report. It's a means for one pilot to pass on current, potentially useful information to other pilots. In the same fashion, we use this department to let readers know about items of interest. Editor's Note: Delegations from the ...
The Transformation of Air Forces on the Korean Peninsula
Oct 01, 2008; ... TODAY NEARLY 28,000 American warriors stand shoulder to shoulder with our Republic of Korea (ROK) allies defending freedom along the demilitarized zone. This is the most visible aspect of our commitment to a strong ROK-US alliance, born in blood when the United States came to the Republic of ...
Reply to "A New Form of Air Warfare"
Oct 01, 2008; ... In air combat, "the merge" occurs when opposing aircraft meet and pass each other. Then they usually "mix it up." In a similar spirit, Air and Space Power Journal 's "Merge " articles present contending ideas. Readers are free to join the intellectual battlespace. Please send comments to ...
Redefining Air, Space, and Cyber Power
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE MEANING OF the term airpower is expanding in ways that will affect tomorrow's US Air Force. In 1925 Gen Billy Mitchell defined it simply as "the ability to do something in the air," but the term now encompasses activities in additional operating domains.1 Gen T. Michael Moseley, former Air ...
The Mission Matters Most
Oct 01, 2008; ... I READ WITH INTEREST Randall Schwalbe's critique of my article "How the Air Force Embraced 'Partial Quality' (and Avoiding Similar Mistakes in New Endeavors)" (Winter 2006). His critique, "Lean Is No Flavor of the Month" (Fall 2007), is well thought out but somewhat misses the ...
Know Your Enemy
Oct 01, 2008; ... COL WILLIAM DARLEVS article "Strategic Imperative: The Necessity for Values Operations as Opposed to Information Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan" (Spring 2007) exactly frames in a historic context our war arising from the terrorism perpetrated byjihadists in the name of Islam. In laying out ...
Ricochets and Replies
Oct 01, 2008; ... A HOUSE DIVIDED I don't entirely agree with what Lt Gen David Deptula and Maj R. Greg Brown say in "A House Divided: The Indivisibility of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance" (Summer 2008). Studying the world wars leads me to the conclusion that some intelligence sources are ...
Planetary Defense: Potential Mitigation Roles of the Department of Defense
Oct 01, 2008; ... EARTH'S ORBIT AROUND the sun is a hazardous location, and our collective safety so far has been purely a matter of luck. Despite the image of a pristine "harmony of spheres" that we inherited from the ancients, the solar system is a cosmic shooting gallery filled with leftover debris from ...
Go Pills in Combat: Prejudice, Propriety, and Practicality
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editorial Abstract: The military's use of medications for operational reasons has traditionally garnered substantial, often negative, attention from the popular news media-and sometimes from the scientific community as well. However, the author details how clear guidelines on the use of ...
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Oct 01, 2008; ... A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French. Alfred A. Knopf (http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/home .pperl), 1745 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, 2004, 304 pages, $25.00 (hardcover); 2005, 280 pages, $15.00 (trade paperback). A Continent for the ...
Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy
Oct 01, 2008; ... Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy by Karl P. Mueller et al. RAND (http://www.rand.org/publications/ index.html), 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138, 2006, 344 pages, $30.00 (softcover). Available free from ...
The Strategic Role of Airpower: An Indian Perspective on How We Need to Think, Train, and Fight in the Coming Years*
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editorial Abstract: Recent advances in precision airpower systems, hardware, and weapons have engendered an effects-based approach to conducting combat with increased speed as well as reduced attrition and collateral damage. The author posits that to enter this new realm, the Indian Air ...
Cyber Flag: A Realistic Training Environment for the Future
Oct 01, 2008; ... Red Flag exercises, well known as training components of air warfare, will also become a staple ofcyber warfare. -Former Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne THE RED FLAG exercise, held six times per year at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, and Eielson AFB, Alaska, ...
Rethinking the Combined Force Air Component Commander's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Approach to Counterinsurgency
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editorial Abstract: Counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Iraq and Afghanistan generate unique and complex intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements for lower-echelon commanders who face a multitude of different insurgent groups fighting with asymmetric means ....
The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944 by Lt Col Will Irwin, USA, Retired. Public Affairs (http://www.public affairsbooks.com), 250 West 57th Street, Suite 1321, New York, New York 10107, 2005, 352 pages, $26.95 (hardcover); 2006, 352 pages, $14.95 ...
Embracing the Joint-Training Enterprise
Oct 01, 2008; ... HOW DOES OUR predominantly conventional military defeat an unconventional enemy who willingly accepts huge losses and constantly adjusts tactics to counter or avoid our strengths? Clearly, we are fighting an adversary who resorts to asymmetric warfare; insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan know ...
Revisiting South African Airpower Thought: Considering Some Challenges and Tensions in Southern Africa
Oct 01, 2008; ... Editorial Abstract: Known for its low-tech forces and unconventional wars, Africa lacks the financial flexibility to employ costly, information-based airpower assets. The authors contend that the supporting roles of airpower are most compatible with the evolving strategic landscape of ...
Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Myth Maker?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Myth Maker? by Russell A. Hart. Potomac Books (http://www .potomacbooksinc.com), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, Virginia 20166, 2006, 160 pages, $17.56 (hardcover), $11.16 (softcover). In all probability, there will never be another war like Heinz ...