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Air and Space Power Journal: Winter 2009 SPINE AIR & SP A CE Winter 2009 Volume XXIII, No. 4 P OWER JOURN Directed Energy A Look to the Future Maj Gen David Scott, USAF Col David Robie, USAF A L , W Hybrid Warfare inter 2009 Something Old, Not Something New Hon. Robert Wilkie Preparing for Irregular Warfare The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be Col John D. Jogerst, USAF, Retired Achieving Balance Energy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency Col John B. Wissler, USAF US Nuclear Deterrence An Opportunity for President Obama to Lead by Example Group Capt Tim D. Q. Below, Royal Air Force 2009-4 Outside Cover.indd 1 10/27/09 8:54:50 AM SPINE Chief of Staff, US Air Force Gen Norton A. Schwartz Commander, Air Education and Training Command Gen Stephen R. Lorenz Commander, Air University Lt Gen Allen G. Peck http://www.af.mil Director, Air Force Research Institute Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired Chief, Professional Journals Maj Darren K. Stanford Deputy Chief, Professional Journals Capt Lori Katowich Professional Staff http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil Marvin W. Bassett, Contributing Editor Darlene H. Barnes, Editorial Assistant Steven C. Garst, Director of Art and Production 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, is the professional journal of the United States Air Force. It is designed to serve as an open forum for the http://www.au.af.mil presentation and stimulation of innovative thinking on military doctrine, strategy, 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 Air and Space Power Journal the official sanction of the Department of Defense, 155 N. Twining Street Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Air Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6026 University, or other agencies or departments of the US e-mail: [email protected] government. Visit Air and Space Power Journal online In this edition, articles not bearing a copyright notice may at http://www.airpower.au.af.mil. 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 reproduced, the Air and Space Power Journal re- quests a courtesy line. To obtain permission to reproduce material bearing a copyright notice for other than US government purposes, contact the author of the mate- rial rather than the Air and Space Power Journal. 2009-4 Inside Cover.indd 1 10/27/09 8:12:28 AM Winter 2009 Volume XXIII, No. 4 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspectives Directed Energy ❙ 6 A Look to the Future Maj Gen David Scott, USAF Col David Robie, USAF Hybrid Warfare ❙ 13 Something Old, Not Something New Hon. Robert Wilkie From the Editor Publishing in Air and Space Power Journal and Honoring Mr. Steve Garst for His Many Years of Service ❙ 18 Maj D. K. Stanford, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals Features Preparing for Irregular Warfare ❙ 68 The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be Col John D. Jogerst, USAF, Retired Both the Quadrennial Defense Review Report of 2006 and National Defense Strategy of 2008 call for increasing our capability to deal with irregular warfare, especially counterinsurgency. However, institutional moves required to provide our joint forces and coalition partners with capabilities tailored to such conflict have proved inadequate. Describing current conditions as mired in old paradigms and marked by a failure of imagination, the author points to a way to prepare Airmen and their weapons systems for irregular warfare. Achieving Balance ❙ 80 Energy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency Col John B. Wissler, USAF The author analyzes the effect of escalating fuel prices on the US Air Force. Viewing energy in a strategic military context, he proposes that the acquisition, planning, and operational communities adopt a new method to evaluate systems based on a tripolar construct consisting of energy, effective- ness, and efficiency. 2009-4 Contents.indd 1 10/27/09 10:44:08 AM US Nuclear Deterrence ❙ 89 An Opportunity for President Obama to Lead by Example Group Capt Tim D. Q. Below, Royal Air Force President Obama has stated that the United States has a “commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” The author investigates how the United States can balance this goal with maintaining a position of strength in enforcing nonproliferation, arguing that reducing nuclear arsenals to bare minimums and adopting a no-first-use policy will prove most effective. Departments 19 ❙ Ricochets and Replies 21 ❙ The Merge Cyber ACTS/SAASS: A Second Year of Command and Staff College for the Future Leaders of Our Cyber Forces . 21 Maj Paul D. Williams, USAF, PhD 30 ❙ Views & Analyses War Fighters in Acquisition: A Requirements Document for the Test Professional . 30 Maj Aaron Tucker, USAF 50 Years Later: Tough Questions Facing Nuclear Arms Reduction . 41 Lt Col Andrew S. Kovich, USAF Minimizing the Loss of Student Pilots from Voluntary Attrition . 44 Col William A. Thomas Jr., USAF, MC, FS Operating the Distributed Common Ground System: A Look at the Human Factor in Net-Centric Operations . 51 Lt Col Jason M. Brown, USAF Airpower in the Next War: In the Shadow of Georgia . 58 Lt Col Thomas McCabe, USAFR, Retired 102 ❙ Waypoints Culture Clash: Bomber Nuclear Operations in a Post–Cold War World . 102 Lt Col Robert Spalding, USAF The Doctrinal Basis for Reinvigorating and Sustaining the Nuclear Enterprise . 104 Lt Col James W. Harvard, USAF, Retired 2009-4 Contents.indd 2 10/27/09 10:44:08 AM 109 ❙ Book Reviews The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945 . 109 Jörg Friedrich, trans. by Allison Brown Reviewer: Dr. David R. Mets Defence from the Skies: Indian Air Force through 75 Years . 109 Air Commodore Jasjit Singh Reviewer: Air Commodore Arjun Subramaniam, IAF Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 . 110 Peter L. Hahn Reviewer: Maj Paul G. Niesen, USAF, Retired Evader: The Epic Story of the First British Airman to Be Rescued by the Com’ete Escape Line in World War II . 111 Derek Shuff Reviewer: Gina M. Kern Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power . 112 Alfred F. Hurley Reviewer: Dr. Robert B. Kane The Army after Next: The First Postindustrial Army . 113 Thomas K. Adams Reviewer: Capt Daniel Magruder, USAF A History of the American People . 115 Paul M. Johnson Reviewer: Capt Bryan D. Main, USAF Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era . 116 Samuel W. Black, ed. Reviewer: Richard Bailey The Ash Warriors . 117 C. R. Anderegg Reviewer: Maj Darrell Smith, USAF Military Ethics: The Dutch Approach—A Practical Guide . 118 Th. A. van Baarda and D. E. M. Verweij, eds. Reviewer: Maj Herman Reinhold, USAF, Retired Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia . 119 Scott W. Palmer Reviewer: Col John S. Chilstrom, USAF, Retired Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point . 119 James S. Robbins Reviewer: Dr. John H. Barnhill 2009-4 Contents.indd 3 10/27/09 10:44:08 AM The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos . 120 Kenny Wayne Fields Reviewer: Kenneth P. Katz L’Ouarsenis: La guerre au pays des cèdres . 121 Mohamed Boudiba Reviewer: Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II . 122 Gregory A. Freeman Reviewer: Capt Travis Nels, USAF The Son Tay Raid: American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten . 123 John Gargus Reviewer: Capt Joshua Pope, USAF Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War . 124 Michael J. Neufeld Reviewer: Dr. Richard R. Muller The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror . 125 Christopher Coker Reviewer: Dr. John Farrell The Prince: The Secret Story of the World’s Most Intriguing Royal, Prince Bandar bin Sultan . 126 William Simpson Reviewer: Matthew J. Morgan 127 ❙ Mission Debrief 2009-4 Contents.indd 4 10/27/09 10:44:08 AM Editorial Advisory Board Gen John A. Shaud, PhD, USAF, Retired, Air Force Research Institute Lt Gen Bradley C. Hosmer, USAF, Retired Col J. Douglas Beason, PhD, USAF, Retired, Los Alamos National Laboratory 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 Col Ronald K. Bartley, USAFR Mr. Charles Tustin Kamps Air University USAF Air Command and Staff College Lt Col Eric Braganca, USAF Dr. Tom Keaney Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Dr. Kendall K. Brown Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF, Retired NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Department of Homeland Security Col Steven D. Carey, USAF, Retired Col Chris J. Krisinger, USAF, Retired Daphne, Alabama 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 College for Professional Development Col Michael D. Davis, USAF Mr. Brent Marley Defense Attaché Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired Mr. Rémy M. Mauduit USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Air Force Research Institute Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF Col Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF, Retired The Pentagon West Chicago, Illinois Dr.
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