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Air & Space Power Journal Chief of Staff, US Air Force Gen John P. Jumper Commander, Air Education and Training Command Gen Donald G. Cook http://www.af.mil Commander, Air University Lt Gen John F. Regni Commandant, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education Col David S. Fadok Editor Lt Col Paul D. Berg Senior Editor Lt Col Malcolm D. Grimes http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil Associate Editor Maj Donald R. Ferguson Editor and Military Defense Analyst Col Larry Carter, USAF, Retired Professional Staff Marvin W. Bassett, Contributing Editor Philip S. Adkins, Contributing Editor Debbie Banker, Editorial Assistant Sherry Terrell, Editorial Assistant Steven C. Garst, Director of Art and Production Daniel M. Armstrong, Illustrator http://www.au.af.mil 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 presentation and stimulation of innova­ tive thinking on military doctrine, strategy, tactics, http://www.cadre.maxwell.af.mil force structure, readiness, and other matters of na­ tional 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 sanc­ tion of the Department of Defense, Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Air University, or other agencies or departments of the US government. Articles in this edition may be reproduced in whole or Visit Air and Space Power Journal online in part without permission. If they are reproduced, at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil the Air and Space Power Journal requests a courtesy line. or e-mail to [email protected]. Summer 2005 Volume XIX, No. 2 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspective Lorenz on Leadership . 5 Maj Gen Stephen R. Lorenz, USAF Focus Area Expeditionary Air and Space Power . 14 Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Editor Features Beyond Blue Four: The Past and Future Transformation of Red Flag . 43 Maj Alexander Berger, USAF The View from the Tower of Babel: Air Force Foreign Language Posture for Global Engagement . 57 Col John L. Conway III, USAF, Retired Aggressive ISR in the War on Terrorism: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm . 73 Lt Col William B. Danskine, USAF Narrowing the Global-Strike Gap with an Airborne Aircraft Carrier . 85 Col George D. Kramlinger, USAF Departments Prelaunch Notes Quick-Looks and the Latest Chronicles Online Journal Articles . 10 Ricochets and Replies . 11 PIREPs Expeditionary Mobility Task Force: Projecting Combat Power . 15 Brig Gen Bobby J. Wilkes, USAF Col Murrell F. Stinnette, USAF Maj Randall Reed, USAF The Air Force Office of Special Investigations: Postured for the Future . 23 Christine E. Williamson Return of the Bomber Barons: The Resurgence of Long-Range Bombardment Aviation for the Early Twenty-first Century . 29 Maj Jeffrey W. Decker, USAF Vortices Train While You Fight: A New Mind-Set for Airpower Operations in Low-Intensity Conflict . 37 Lt Col Phil Haun, USAF Quick-Looks and NOTAMs Revised Air Force Doctrine Document 2-5, Information Operations . 36 Capt Randy Mize, USAF Stabilizing Critical Continuity of the Air and Space Expeditionary Force . 55 Douglas E. Lee Capt Joseph T. Morgan, USAF Contingency Response Group: Time to Expand the Box and Think “Coalition” . 70 Alexander M. Wathen Updated Air Force Publication: The U.S. Air Force Transformation Flight Plan, 2004 . 84 Mort Rolleston Book Reviews Neither War nor Not War: Army Command in Europe during the Time of Peace Operations: Tasks Confronting USAREUR Commanders, 1994–2000 . 99 Richard M. Swain Reviewer: Capt Gilles Van Nederveen, USAF, Retired Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare . 100 Robert M. Citino Reviewer: CSM James H. Clifford, USA Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon . 101 Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan, with Bert Vis Reviewer: Maj Michael P. Kleiman, USAFR Post-Soviet Military Theory and Strategy: A Discussion of the Russian Journal Military Thought . 102 Reviewer: LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, USN The Militarization and Weaponization of Space . 103 Matthew Mowthorpe Reviewer: 2d Lt Brent D. Ziarnick, USAF NATO’s Eastern Agenda in a New Strategic Era . 104 F. Stephen Larrabee Reviewer: Dr. John Albert Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience since 1949 . 105 Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein, and Michael A. McDevitt, eds. Reviewer: 2d Lt Daniel L. Magruder Jr., USAF America’s Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq . 106 James Dobbins et al. Reviewer: Dr. Lewis K. Griffith The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons . 107 Anthony H. Cordesman Reviewer: Dr. Daniel J. Hughes Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda . 109 John Keegan Reviewer: Maj Paul Johnston, Canadian Armed Forces Challenging Conventional Wisdom: Debunking the Myths and Exposing the Risks of Arms Export Reform . 110 Tamar Gabelnick and Rachel Stohl, eds. Reviewer: Lt Col Steven Payson, USAF The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, vol. 5, “The Finest Soldier,” January 1, 1945–January 7, 1947 . 111 Larry I. Bland and Sharon Ritenour Stevens, eds. Reviewer: Dr. Harold R. Winton “Oil for the Lamps of China”—Beijing’s 21st-Century Search for Energy . 113 Bernard D. Cole Reviewer: Paul Younes Commanding an Air Force Squadron in the Twenty-first Century: A Practical Guide of Tips and Techniques for Today’s Squadron Commander . 113 Lt Col Jeffry F. Smith Reviewer: Maj Kevin D. Smith, USAF The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation . 114 Philip Snow Reviewer: Dr. Nicholas Evan Sarantakes Fighting the Breakout: The German Army in Normandy from COBRA to the Falaise Gap . 115 Rudolph Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff et al. David C. Isby, ed. Reviewer: Dr. Robert B. Kane Africa’s Armies: From Honor to Infamy: A History from 1791 to the Present . 116 Robert B. Edgerton Reviewer: Col Bryant P. Shaw, PhD, USAF, Retired The American Foreign Legion: Black Soldiers of the 93d in World War I . 117 Frank E. Roberts Reviewer: Dr. Richard Bailey The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change . 118 Nora Bensahel and Daniel L. Byman, eds. Reviewer: Lt Col Kurt W. Schake, PhD, USAF Beginnings of the Cold War Arms Race: The Truman Administration and the U.S. Arms Build-Up . 119 Raymond P. Ojserkis Reviewer: Dr. Mark J. Conversino The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military . 120 Martin L. Cook Reviewer: Dr. Christopher Toner The Iraq War . 122 John Keegan Reviewer: Lt Col James P. Gates, USAF Valkyrie: North American’s Mach 3 Superbomber . 123 Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony R. Landis Reviewer: Lt Col Dave Howard, USAF, Retired Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel’s Secret Campaign That Denied Saddam the Bomb . 124 Rodger W. Claire Reviewer: Maj J. Rick Rosales, USAF Mission Debrief . 125 Air and Space Power Journal Board of Reviewers Prof. Tami Davis Biddle Dr. Charles Krupnick US Army War College US Army War College Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF, Retired Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth Melbourne, Florida RAND Dr. Kendall K. Brown Lt Col David MacIsaac, USAF, Retired NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Montgomery, Alabama Brig Gen Phillip D. Caine, USAF, Retired Dr. Karl P. Magyar Monument, Colorado Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun Col Edward Mann, USAF, Retired US Army War College Colorado Springs, Colorado Dr. Mark Clodfelter Dr. Jerome V. Martin National War College Command Historian Dr. James Corum Headquarters US Strategic Command USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Col Phillip Meilinger, USAF, Retired Dr. Conrad Crane Northrop Grumman Corporation Director, US Army Military Studies Institute Prof. John H. Morrow Jr. Dr. Dik A. Daso University of Georgia National Air and Space Museum Dr. Daniel Mortensen Smithsonian Institution USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research Dr. William L. Dowdy and Education Alabama State University Prof. James Mowbray Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired USAF Air War College USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Dr. Karl Mueller Brig Gen Charles Dunlap Jr., USAF RAND Staff Judge Advocate Dr. Richard R. Muller USAF Air Combat Command USAF Air Command and Staff College Dr. Stephen Fought Col Robert Owen, USAF, Retired USAF Air War College Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Col David M. Glantz, USA, Retired Dr. Reina J. Pennington Journal of Slavic Military Studies Norwich University Col Thomas E. Griffith Jr., USAF USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Lt Col Thomas R. Searle Headquarters US Special Operations Command Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr. Ohio State University Dr. James Smith USAF Institute for National Security Studies Dr. Grant T. Hammond Center for Strategy and Technology Col James Spencer, USAF, Retired Air University USAF Academy Prof. Daniel Hughes Col Michael A. Stanley USAF Air War College USAF Air War College Dr. Thomas Hughes Col Richard Szafranski, USAF, Retired USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Toffler Associates Col Mark P. Jelonek, USAF Dr. James Titus Commander, 614th Space Operations Group USAF Academy Director of Operations, Fourteenth Air Force Col Mark Wells, USAF Dr. Tom Keaney USAF Academy School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell Christiansburg, Virginia Lt Col Merrick E. Krause Director, NDU Press Dr. Harold R. Winton Editor, Joint Force Quarterly USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies 4 APJ Lorenz on Leadership MAJ GEN STEPHEN R. LORENZ, USAF N 1987 I WAS commander of the 93rd this “scarcity principle” lies in accepting the Air Refueling Squadron at Castle AFB in reality of limited resources and becoming Merced, California. Late one night, I sat adept at obtaining superior results in less- down and wrote out a list of leadership than-ideal situations.
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