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Chief of Staff, US Air Force Gen John P. Jumper Commander, Air Education and Training Command Gen Donald G. Cook Commander, Air University http://www.af.mil Lt Gen John F. Regni Commander, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education Col David S. Fadok Editor Lt Col Paul D. Berg Senior Editor Lt Col Malcolm D. Grimes Associate Editor http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil 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 Mary J. Moore, Editorial Assistant Debbie Banker, Editorial Assistant Steven C. Garst, Director of Art and Production Daniel M. Armstrong, Illustrator L. Susan Fair, Illustrator http://www.au.af.mil 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 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 http://www.cadre.maxwell.af.mil 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 Visit Air and Space Power Journal online line. To obtain permission to reproduce material bearing a at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil copyright notice for other than US government purposes, or e-mail to [email protected] contact the author of the material rather than the Air and Space Power Journal. Spring 2005 Volume XIX, No. 1 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspective What I Believe . 4 Gen Hal M. Hornburg, USAF, Retired Focus Area Air and Space Power in Special Operations . 58 Features America’s Quiet Professionals: Specialized Airpower—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow . 59 Lt Gen Michael W. Wooley, USAF Airmen on the Battlefield: Warfighting Integration in Support of Special Operations Forces . 67 Lt Gen William Thomas “Tom” Hobbins, USAF What Kind of War? Strategic Perspectives on the War on Terrorism . 81 Col John D. Jogerst, USAF Rescue Operations in the Second Gulf War© . 95 Col Darrel D. Whitcomb, USAFR, Retired Effects-Based Airpower for Small Wars: Iraq after Major Combat . 103 Col Robyn Read, USAF, Retired Departments Prelaunch Notes Vignettes, Doctrine NOTAMs, and the Latest Chronicles Articles . 17 Ricochets and Replies . 18 Vortices Unconventional Airpower . 20 Maj William Brian Downs, USAF The Advanced Special Operations Air Mobility Platform (M-X): The Time Is Now . 26 Col William E. Saier, USAF, Retired At the Crossroads: Future “Manning” for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles . 31 Maj James C. Hoffman, USAF Charles Tustin Kamps Influence Operations: Integrated PSYOP Planning . 38 TSgt J. “Spyke” Szeredy, USAF PIREPs AFSOC Logistics: Quiet Professionals Supporting the War Fighter . 45 Maj Lisa A. Ulshoffer, USAF Capt Andrew S. Young, USAF SMSgt William Nivison, USAF MSgt Dean J. George, USAF LEADS: The Essential Elements of a 3-D Geographic Coordinate . 53 John W. Dix Vignettes US Air Force Special Operations . 19 Charles Tustin Kamps The Son Tay Raid: A 35-Year Retrospective . 57 Charles Tustin Kamps The Mayaguez Incident, 12–15 May 1975: A 30-Year Retrospective . 80 Lt Col John F. Guilmartin Jr., USAF, Retired Desert One and Air Force Special Operations Command: A 25-Year Retrospective . 113 Maj Gianni Koskinas, USAF Book Reviews Creech Blue: Gen Bill Creech and the Reformation of the Tactical Air Forces, 1978–1984 . 115 Lt Col James C. Slife Reviewer: Gen Larry D. Welch, USAF, Retired Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age . 116 Wayne Michael Hall Reviewer: Capt Gilles Van Nederveen, USAF, Retired Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World . 117 Jean Bethke Elshtain Reviewer: Dr. Christopher Toner Violent Peace: Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America . 118 David R. Mares Reviewer: Michael McNerney Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II . 119 James Tobin Reviewer: Maj Michael Pierson, USAF Fighting with the Screaming Eagles: With the 101st Airborne from Normandy to Bastogne . 121 Robert M. Bowen, edited by Christopher J. Anderson Reviewer: Maj James P. Gates, USAF Two Minutes over Baghdad . 121 Amos Perlmutter, Michael Handel, and Uri Bar-Joseph Reviewer: Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF Improving the Practice of National Security Strategy: A New Approach for the Post–Cold War World . 123 Clark A. Murdock Reviewer: LCDR Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, MSC, USN Spaceflight Revolution . 124 David Ashford Reviewer: Maj Paul G. Niesen, USAF Luftwaffe: The Allied Intelligence Files . 124 Christopher Staerck and Paul Sinnott Reviewer: Lt Col Robert Tate, USAFR Mission Debrief . 125 Air and Space Power Journal Board of Reviewers Prof. Tami Davis Biddle Col Merrick E. Krause US Army War College Director, NDU Press Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF, Retired Editor, Joint Force Quarterly Melbourne, Florida Dr. Charles Krupnick Dr. Kendall K. Brown US Army War College NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth RAND Brig Gen Phillip D. Caine, USAF, Retired Monument, Colorado Lt Col David MacIsaac, USAF, Retired Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun US Army War College Dr. Karl P. Magyar Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Mark Clodfelter National War College Col Edward Mann, USAF, Retired Colorado Springs, Colorado Dr. James Corum USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Dr. Jerome V. Martin Command Historian Dr. Conrad Crane Headquarters US Strategic Command Director, US Army Military Studies Institute Col Phillip Meilinger, USAF, Retired Dr. Dik A. Daso Northrop Grumman Corporation National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Prof. John H. Morrow Jr. University of Georgia Dr. William L. Dowdy Dr. Daniel Mortensen Alabama State University USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired and Education USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Prof. James Mowbray Brig Gen Charles Dunlap Jr., USAF USAF Air War College Staff Judge Advocate Dr. Karl Mueller USAF Air Combat Command RAND Dr. Stephen Fought Dr. Richard R. Muller USAF Air War College USAF Air Command and Staff College Col David M. Glantz, USA, Retired Col Robert Owen, USAF, Retired Journal of Slavic Military Studies Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Col Thomas E. Griffith Jr., USAF Dr. Reina J. Pennington USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Norwich University Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr. Lt Col Thomas R. Searle Ohio State University Headquarters US Special Operations Command Dr. Grant T. Hammond Dr. James Smith Center for Strategy and Technology USAF Institute for National Security Studies Air University Col James Spencer, USAF, Retired Prof. Daniel Hughes USAF Academy USAF Air War College Col Richard Szafranski, USAF, Retired Dr. Thomas Hughes Toffler Associates USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Dr. James Titus Col Mark P. Jelonek, USAF USAF Academy Commander, 614th Space Operations Group Director of Operations, Fourteenth Air Force Col Mark Wells, USAF USAF Academy Dr. Tom Keaney School of Advanced International Studies Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell Johns Hopkins University Christiansburg, Virginia Prof. Theodore Kluz Dr. Harold R. Winton USAF Air War College USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies 3 APJ What I Believe GEN HAL M. HORNBURG, USAF, RETIRED HIS ARTICLE CONTAINS what I take. When we select our people for com­ think is important about leading mand, we do not send them to the hospital Airmen. It conveys what I think you, for an injection of additional brain cells. as Air Force commanders, need to There is no infusion of instant knowledge. We Tknow. It is what I believe. This message has used to do that—or at least we thought we did. many instructions and suggestions; take as We would make someone a commander and many as you can, and give as much as you assume all resident knowledge was installed. 4 WHAT I BELIEVE 5 When commanders made mistakes, we asked, Building Airmen “How could this happen?” How do we explain what happened? We did not train our com­ Americans hold the members of the mili­ manders, but we’re changing that. tary in high regard. According to a Gallup Winston Churchill once said, “If you have an poll of June 2004, our military is the most important point to make, don’t try to be subtle trusted organization in America. This is good or clever. Use the pile driver.” This article news, but such trust comes with no guaran­ makes several points. Some I touch on only tees. We must earn it every day. The impor­ tant point is that the American people believe lightly; others I discuss at length. You will find in what we do. As we perform our business, that I place my emphasis—my number-one craft, and art, we have a responsibility to strive priority—on the importance of our people. Airmen for our best. We need to be good stewards of are the gas that makes the Air Force go—not our assets and resources. our technology, airplanes, or equipment. With­ When I became commander of ACC in No­ out them, we might as well cut up all the ex­ vember 2001, our mission statement called on pensive assets on the ramp and make them us to “organize, train, equip, and maintain into razor blades.
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