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Air and Space Power Journal: Spring 2011 AIR & SPACE POWER JOURNAL AIR & SPACE Spring 2011 Volume XXV, No. 1 Good or Great Colonel, It Is Up to You! Maj Gen Robert C. Kane, USAF with Prof. Gene C. Kamena and COL James Lackey, USA , Spring 2011 Developing Flexible Command and Control of Airpower Lt Col Jeffrey Hukill, USAF, Retired Dr. Daniel R. Mortensen Strategy and Airpower Col John A. Warden III, USAF, Retired Forty-Five Years of Frustration America’s Enduring Dilemma of Fighting Insurgents with Airpower Dr. Mark Clodfelter Defending the Joint Force Lessons Learned from Joint Base Balad Lt Col Shannon W. Caudill, USAF Col Anthony M. Packard, USAF Lt Col Raymund M. Tembreull, USAF Chief of Staff, US Air Force Gen Norton A. Schwartz Commander, Air Education and Training Command Gen Edward A. Rice Jr. http://www.af.mil Commander, Air University Lt Gen Allen G. Peck Director, Air Force Research Institute Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired Chief, Professional Journals Lt Col Paul D. Berg Deputy Chief, Professional Journals Maj Darren K. Stanford http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil Editor Capt Wm. Howard Professional Staff Marvin W. Bassett, Contributing Editor Tammi K. Long, Editorial Assistant Daniel M. Armstrong, Illustrator L. Susan Fair, Illustrator Ann Bailey, Prepress Production Manager The Air and Space Power Journal (ISSN 1554-2505), Air Force Recurring Publication 10-1, published quarterly, http://www.au.af.mil is the professional journal of the United States Air Force. It is designed to serve as an open forum for the presentation and stimulation of innovative thinking on military doctrine, strategy, force structure, readiness, Air and Space Power Journal and other matters of national defense. The views and 155 N. Twining Street opinions expressed or implied in the Journal are those Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6026 of the authors and should not be construed as carrying the official sanction of the Department of Defense, e-mail: [email protected] Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Air Visit Air and Space Power Journal online University, or other agencies or departments of the US at http://www.airpower.au.af.mil. government. Articles in this edition may be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. If they are reproduced, the Air and Space Power Journal requests a courtesy line. Spring 2011 Volume XXV, No. 1 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspective Good or Great ❙ 6 Colonel, It Is Up to You! Maj Gen Robert C. Kane, USAF with Prof. Gene C. Kamena COL James Lackey, USA Guest Editorial Farewell, Lt Col Paul Berg ❙ 10 Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired Director, Air Force Research Institute Features Developing Flexible Command and Control of Airpower ❙ 53 Lt Col Jeffrey Hukill, USAF, Retired Dr. Daniel R. Mortensen The principle of centralized control and decentralized execution guides the application of airpower across the spectrum of conflict. Yet, the authors contend that “the Air Force has misapplied this pri- mary tenet” by limiting command and control (C2) of airpower only to the combatant commander lev- el. The current centralized practice works well for theater-level military operations but limits the Air Force’s ability to respond to situations requiring decision-making authority at lower organizational lev- els. This article details necessary changes to create a more flexible C2 structure by placing command authority at the appropriate level and providing greater flexibility in complex operating environments. Strategy and Airpower ❙ 64 Col John A. Warden III, USAF, Retired Asserting the full capabilities of airpower in achieving national objectives, the author reminds readers that airpower resources are most effective when used in parallel to attack “virtually all of the centers of gravity directly related to strategic objectives, regardless of their location.” In defending the unique ca- pabilities of airpower, the author contends that airpower, correctly understood and applied, provides leaders greater flexibility to consider every conceivable method for affecting a center of gravity, regard- less of weapons system or class of munitions. Forty-Five Years of Frustration ❙ 78 America’s Enduring Dilemma of Fighting Insurgents with Airpower Dr. Mark Clodfelter Are the national media’s comparisons of the Vietnam conflict to the current conflict in the Middle East entirely without merit? The author identifies parallels between the two counterinsurgencies, noting the unintended consequences of bombing insurgents in their safe havens near or among civilian popula- tions. If theater planners are to improve host-nation support of allied operations, airpower, though al- ready extremely accurate, must be used with even greater restraint. Defending the Joint Force ❙ 89 Lessons Learned from Joint Base Balad Lt Col Shannon W. Caudill, USAF Col Anthony M. Packard, USAF Lt Col Raymund M. Tembreull, USAF Prior to 2008, enemy harassment at Joint Base Balad (JBB), Iraq, impeded mission accomplishment. Traditional approaches to base defense were both reactive and insufficient. The authors describe and analyze how JBB’s leadership forged a new, proactive, and joint approach to integrated defense that successfully curtailed enemy attacks. The Dangerous Decline in the Department of Defense’s Vaccine Program for Infectious Diseases ❙ 101 Col Kenneth E. Hall, USAF The author argues that the Department of Defense needs to take swift action to revitalize its vaccine program for infectious diseases and enhance the synergy between biodefense and infectious-disease activities in order to resolve shortfalls in the acquisition and availability of vaccines. He establishes the historical impact of naturally occurring infectious diseases on military operations, the criticality of force health protection in defending the human weapon system, and the superiority of vaccines among medical countermeasures. Departments 11 ❙ Ricochets and Replies 17 ❙ The Merge Accessibility: Improving the Mobilization Framework in Order to Leverage Availability of the Air National Guard ................ 17 Maj Sean F. Conroy, ANG 26 ❙ Views & Analyses War Fighting in Cyberspace: Evolving Force Presentation and Command and Control............................... 26 Maj M. Bodine Birdwell, USAF Lt Col Robert Mills, PhD, USAF, Retired What’s in a Name? Beyond Rescue As We Know It .............. 37 Maj Samuel Kwan, USAF Revelations in Haiti: The Side Effects of New Priorities for Remotely Piloted ISR Aircraft ........................... 45 Capt Jaylan Haley, USAF 116 ❙ Book Reviews Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . One School at a Time .......................... 116 Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Reviewer: Col Larry Carter, USAF, Retired The Architecture of Leadership ........................... 117 Donald T. Phillips and Adm James M. Loy, USCG, Retired Reviewer: Maj Michael A. Marsicek, USAF Al Qaeda in Its Own Words .............................. 118 Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, eds., trans. Pascale Ghazaleh Reviewer: Maj Stephane L. Wolfgeher, USAF Off I Went into the Wild Blue Yonder ........................ 119 John James Knudsen Reviewer: Dr. David R. Mets Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change ...................... 120 Kurt M. Campbell, ed. Reviewer: Maj Thomas G. Aranda, USAF The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour .............................. 121 Andrei Cherny Reviewer: Lt Col Tom Cooper, USAF Circling the Earth: United States Plans for a Postwar Overseas Military Base System, 1942–1948 .................. 122 Elliott V. Converse III Reviewer: CAPT Paul Younes, USNR The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History .................... 124 Robert W. Duffner Reviewer: Lawrence R. Benson The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell ......................... 125 Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, eds. Reviewers: Dr. Paul A. Pohland and Col Eric A. “Ric” Pohland, USAF, Retired Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler’s Wehrmacht .......................... 126 Robert F. Dorr and Thomas D. Jones Reviewer: Kenneth P. Katz 127 ❙ Mission Debrief Editorial Advisory Board Gen John A. Shaud, PhD, USAF, Retired, Air Force Research Institute Lt Gen Bradley C. Hosmer, USAF, Retired Dr. J. Douglas Beason (Senior Executive Service and Colonel, USAF, Retired), Air Force Space Command Dr. Alexander S. Cochran, Office of the Chief of Staff, US Army Prof. Thomas B. Grassey, US Naval Academy Lt Col Dave Mets, PhD, USAF, Retired, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (professor emeritus) Board of Reviewers Lt Col Eric Braganca, USAF Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF, Retired Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland Department of Homeland Security Dr. Kendall K. Brown Col Chris J. Krisinger, USAF, Retired NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Burke, Virginia Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth US Army War College RAND Dr. Mark Clodfelter Mr. Douglas E. Lee National War College Air Force Space Command Dr. Conrad Crane Dr. Richard I. Lester Director, US Army Military History Institute Eaker Center for Professional Development Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired Mr. Brent Marley USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (professor emeritus) Mr. Rémy M. Mauduit Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF, Retired Air Force Research Institute Duke University Col Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF, Retired Dr. Stephen Fought West Chicago, Illinois USAF Air War College (professor emeritus) Dr. Daniel Mortensen Col
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