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Air and Space Power Journal, Published Quarterly, Is the Professional Flagship Publication of the United States Air Force Air Force Chief of Staff Gen John P. Jumper Commander, Air Education and Training Command Gen Donald G. Cook http://www.af.mil Commander, Air University Lt Gen Donald A. Lamontagne Commander, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education Col Bobby J. Wilkes Editor Col Anthony C. Cain http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil Senior Editor Lt Col Malcolm D. Grimes Associate Editors Lt Col Michael J. Masterson Maj Donald R. Ferguson Professional Staff Marvin W. Bassett, Contributing Editor Larry Carter, Contributing Editor Mary J. Moore, Editorial Assistant http://www.au.af.mil Steven C. Garst, Director of Art and Production Daniel M. Armstrong, Illustrator L. Susan Fair, Illustrator Ann Bailey, Prepress Production Manager Air and Space Power Chronicles Luetwinder T. Eaves, Managing Editor The Air and Space Power Journal, published quarterly, is the professional flagship publication of the United States Air Force. It is designed to serve as an open forum for the pres­ entation and stimulation of innovative thinking on military http://www.cadre.maxwell.af.mil doctrine, strategy, tactics, force structure, readiness, and other matters of national defense. The views and opinions expressed or implied in the Journal are those of the authors and should not be construed as carrying the official sanction of the Department of Defense, Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Air University, or other agencies or de­ partments of the US government. In this edition, articles not bearing a copyright notice may be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. Articles bearing a copyright notice may be reproduced for any US government purpose without permission. If they are repro­ duced, the Air and Space Power Journal requests a courtesy line. To obtain permission to reproduce material bearing a copyright notice for other than US government purposes, Visit Air and Space Power Jour nal online contact the author of the material rather than the Air and at http://www.airpower .maxwell.af.mil Space Power Journal. or e-mail to [email protected] Spring 2004 Volume XVIII, No. 1 AFRP 10-1 Prelaunch Notes . 4 Flight Lines Emerging Air and Space Power Technologies . 5 Vortices The Effect of Human Factors on the Helmet-Mounted Display . 7 Maj James R. Vogel, USAF Dr. Marian C. Schultz Dr. James T. Schultz Whither High-Energy Lasers? . 15 Maj Gen Donald L. Lamberson, PhD, USAF, Retired Col Edward Duff, USAF, Retired Don Washburn, PhD Lt Col Courtney Holmberg, PhD, USAF What Should We Bomb? Axiological Targeting and the Abiding Limits of Airpower Theory . 25 Dr. Paul Rexton Kan PIREP Electromagnetic Applications of Biomimetic Research . 33 Dr. Morley O. Stone Dr. Rajesh R. Naik Dr. Lawrence L. Brott Dr. Peter S. Meltzer Jr. Features Getting There FIRST . 39 Col Steven C. Suddarth, USAF Lt Col Ross T. McNutt, USAF Maj William T. Cooley, USAF Powering the Future: Advances in Propulsion Technologies Provide a Capability Road Map for War-Fighter Operations . 51 Maj Michael F. Kelly, USAF, Retired Fuel Cells: Powerful Implications . 61 Lt Col David P. Blanks, USAF Military Applications of Information Technologies . 77 Paul W. Phister Jr., PE, PhD Igor G. Plonisch The Joint Personnel Recovery Coordination Center: The Next Step in Joint Integration . 91 Maj Eric Braganca, USAF The Nonrescue of Corvette 03© . 101 Col Darrel D. Whitcomb, USAFR, Retired Net Assessment Jayhawk! The VII Corps in the Persian Gulf War . 115 Stephen A. Bourque Reviewer: Maj Paul G. Niesen, USAF The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship . 116 A. Jay Cristol Reviewer: Lt Col Robert B. Kane, USAF Malta Spitfire: The Diary of a Fighter Pilot . 117 George Beurling and Leslie Roberts Reviewer: Lt Col Rob Tate, USAFR On Target: Organizing and Executing the Strategic Air Campaign against Iraq . 118 Richard G. Davis Reviewer: Lt Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century . 119 Heike Bungert, Jan Heitmann, and Michael Wala, eds. Reviewer: Capt Gilles Van Nederveen, USAF, Retired Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry . 120 P. W. Singer Reviewer: John H. Barnhill Space Policy in the 21st Century . 120 W. Henry Lambright, ed. Reviewer: Maj John E. Shaw, USAF Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg, 1940–1945 . 121 Jörg Friedrich Reviewer: Dr. Douglas Peifer When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam . 124 Ed Rasimus Reviewer: Dr. David R. Mets Mission Debrief . 126 Air and Space Power Journal Board of Reviewers Prof. Tami Davis Biddle Dr. Tom Keaney US Army War College School of Advanced International Studies Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF, Retired Johns Hopkins University Melbourne, Florida Prof. Theodore Kluz USAF Air War College Col Matthew Caffrey, USAFR Operations Directorate Dr. Charles Krupnick Headquarters USAF US Army War College Brig Gen Phillip D. Caine, USAF, Retired Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth Monument, Colorado RAND Dr. Don D. Chipman Lt Col David MacIsaac, USAF, Retired USAF Squadron Officer College Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun Dr. Karl P. Magyar US Army War College Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Mark Clodfelter Col Edward Mann, USAF, Retired National War College Colorado Springs, Colorado Dr. Jerome V. Martin Dr. James Corum Peru State College USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Col Phillip Meilinger, USAF, Retired Dr. Conrad Crane Science Applications International Corporation Strategic Studies Institute US Army War College Prof. John H. Morrow Jr. University of Georgia Dr. Dik A. Daso National Air and Space Museum Dr. Daniel Mortensen Smithsonian Institution USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education Dr. Lee Dowdy Alabama State University Prof. James Mowbray USAF Air War College Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired Dr. Karl Mueller USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies RAND Brig Gen Charles Dunlap Jr., USAF Dr. Richard R. Muller Staff Judge Advocate USAF Air Command and Staff College USAF Air Combat Command Col Robert Owen, USAF, Retired Dr. Stephen Fought Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University USAF Air War College Dr. Reina J. Pennington Col David M. Glantz, USA, Retired Norwich University Journal of Slavic Military Studies Dr. James Smith Col Thomas E. Griffith Jr., USAF USAF Institute for National Security Studies USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Col James Spencer, USAF Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr. USAF Academy Ohio State University Col Richard Szafranski, USAF, Retired Dr. Grant T. Hammond Toffler Associates Center for Strategy and Technology Air University Dr. James Titus USAF Academy Prof. Daniel Hughes USAF Air War College Col Mark Wells, USAF Dr. Thomas Hughes USAF Academy USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell Lt Col Mark P. Jelonek, USAF Christiansburg, Virginia Space Division Dr. Harold R. Winton USAF Weapons School USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies 3 APJ COL ANTHONY C. CAIN,EDITOR E ARE PLEASED to an­ to publish your ideas. Please e-mail your nounce the availability of a submissions to [email protected]. free subscription to the on­ We on the ASPJ editorial staff look for­ line version of Air and Space ward to a new academic year, anticipating W many new, insightful articles and reviews Power Journal. After you subscribe, we will in our quest to publish the best in air and add your e-mail address to our electronic space power thought. We are always seeking distribution list. This allows us to automati­ quality articles. If you are interested in cally send you an e-mail message contain­ submitting an article for publication, ing a table of contents with links to full- please refer to our guidelines in the “Mis­ text articles in each new quarterly issue of sion Debrief” section of this issue, or check ASPJ, thus ensuring that you don’t miss the submission instructions on our Web any of our informative features. site: http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/ Subscribing is easy. 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CAIN,EDITOR Emerging Air and Space Power Technologies HE FULL RANGE of air and space doctrinal foundation for employing airpower power capabilities is inherently tied in the event of another war between the to technology, more so than any great powers. In their dogged pursuit of other form of military power. Al­ doctrine, however, they failed to anticipate Tthough navies most closely approximate air requirements for long-range fighter escorts, and space forces in this relationship, the ca­ thus illustrating how the balancing act re­ pabilities resident in sea forces matured in quires constant attention and investment. the industrial age and are constrained by the Presently, US Air Force members do not physical challenges of operating on and be­ have the freedom to develop doctrine gradu­ neath the surface of the world’s oceans. Air ally. The global war on terrorism; ongoing and space power also originated in the in­ operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and else­ dustrial age, but technological advances and where; conventional and unconventional the potential to expand its operational capa­ threats to states; and the imperative to pro­ bilities uniquely equip this form of power to tect the homeland dictate heightened op­ bridge conflicts between the industrial and erations tempo and command vast resources.
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