Distinguished Participants,

We, , are honored to host you at the fi rst International Symposium on the History of Air Warfare (ISAW) in Türkiye. In the symposium, organized by Air War College with the support of Turkish Air Force, the history of air warfare will be analyzed and the facts under the light of scholarly assessment will be provided for decision-makers of today and tomorrow. Academicians, scholars, senior fellows and top rank military offi cials well-known in the fi eld of air power history, theory and strategy will make signifi cant contribution to the discipline of Air Warfare History during the symposium which will be held in this beautiful city İstanbul where continents meet.

Topics of Air Warfare History, which will be discussed on an academic platform through ISAW, will shed light on the experiences of various countries in the last century. While providing an academic atmosphere in each session where partici- pants will be able to discuss their ideas freely, the symposium will help enlighten the future of air power by deepening the understanding of history. ISAW will be a platform providing a perspective that helps us to look to the future from the historical aspects.

The symposium will be held in six sessions including a very attractive opening session. Session Topics as follows: -Air Power in Theory and Implementation -Air and Space Power in 20th-Century Warfare -How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service -The Contribution of R&D and Think Tanks to Air and Space Power -Air Power and Society

Thanks in advance for contribution of all participants.

Respectfully, 10 April 2014 Thursday 09.00 - 10.15 Opening Speeches Speaker Title Welcome Speech by Brigadier General R. Commander, Turkish Air War College Sami Özatak Opening Speech by Commander, Turkish Air Force General Akın Öztürk Keynote Speech Speaker Title Subject Deputy Supreme Allied Air Power: Leading General Mirco Zuliani Commander Transfor- Continuous mation (DSACT), NATO Transformation 10.15 - 11.00 Photo and Coffee Break 10 April 2014 Thursday 1’st Session: 11.00 - 13.00 Air Power In Theory And Implementation Speaker Title Subject Colonel John A. Warden Air Power Theorist, CEO 21st Century Airpower III, USAF (Ret.) Venturist Inc., USA Theory: Next Steps (Keynote Speaker) Director of Command Major General Kubilay and Control Department Chairman Selçuk in Turkish , Türkiye Head of Joint Doctrine, His Greatest Gift - ID Air & Space, Devel- Trenchard’s Theories on (Paddy) Teakle opment, Concepts & Airpower Doctrine Centre, UK Political Science and Post Cold War Airpow- Professor Luciano Sociology Department er: The Curious Case Bozzo (DISPO) of the Universi- of Vanishing Strategic ty of Florence, Italy Effectiveness Professor of Military Theory, Implementation, Professor Mark Strategy at the National and the Future of Air Clodfelter War College, Washing- Power ton, DC, USA Military Historian and Dr. Colonel Phillip S. Former Dean of the Air Targeting: Meilinger, USAF (Ret.) School of Advanced An Overview Airpower Studies, USA 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch 10 April 2014 Thursday 2’nd Session: 14.30 - 16.30 Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare Speaker Title Subject Senior Fellow at the Air Power Comes of Dr. Benjamin S. Center for Strategic Age: The Maturation of Lambeth and Budgetary Assess- Aerial Warfare in the (Keynote Speaker) ments, USA Late 20th Century Commander, NATO Major General Rubén Combined Air Opera- Chairman Carlos García Servert tions Center Torrejón (CAOC TJ), Spain Commander of Turkish The Vital Role Of Air Air Force NCO Col- Power In The Struggle lege and Air Specialty Brigadier General Of A Nation’s Liberty: Schools, Dr. Ahmet Cural The Great Offensive Former Dean of Turkish In The War Of Turkish Air Force Academy, Independence Case Türkiye Deputy Director General in the Norwegian Minis- try of Defence, Norway Colonel Professor John The Pursuit of Victory Visiting Professor of Op- Andreas Olsen Through Airpower erational Art and Tactics at the Swedish National Defence College Dean of the Baltic De- The Origins of Air Power Professor James Corum fence College, Estonia Thought 100 Years Ago Chief of Department of Humanitarian Sciences East Front Close Air Dr. Andrij Kharuk at the Hetman Petro Support: Attempt of Sahaydachnyi Army Comparative Analysis Academy, Ukraine 11 April 2014 Friday 3’rd Session: 08.30 - 10.30 How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service Speaker Title Subject Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Commander, U.S. Air Forces General Africa, Independent Air Forces in (Keynote Speaker) Commander Allied Air Command, the 21st Century Ramstein Air Base,, Director, Joint Air Power Compe- tence Centre, Kalkar, Germany. Head of the Air Historical Branch Mr. Sebastian Cox (RAF) in the UK Ministry of Chairman Defence, UK Major General Director of Personnel Department “Road to Independence: H. Hü seyin Demirarslan in Turkish Air Force, Türkiye Turkish Air Force” The Struggling Pursuit Major General Junichi Director of General Affairs Depart- for Independent Airpower Araki ment in Joint Staff, Japan Before and After the Pacifi c War

Technical Deputy Director of the Information Technology, From Air Corps to Air Force: Brigadier General Communications and Advanced 1915-1923 The road to Basilio Di Martino Technologies Directorate of the independence of the Italian General Secretariat of Defence, Air Force Italy

How Air Power Transformed Air Power Strategist and Author of Air Commodore Kaiser into an Independent Service “Great Air Battles of Air Tufail (Ret.) and Contemporary Chal- Force”, Pakistan lenges to its Independence

How Argentine Air Power Colonel Oscar Luis Has Become An Inde- Director of Historical Studies of the Aranda Durañona pendent Service in 1945: Argentine Air Force, Argentine (Ret.) Domestic Needs, Foreigner Infl uences 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11 April 2014 Friday 4’th Session: The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To 11.00 - 13.00 Air And Space Power Speaker Title Subject President of The Scientifi c The Contribution of Space, Professor Yü cel Altunbaşak and Technological Coun- Aviation and R&D Studies to (Keynote Speaker) cil of (TUBITAK), Technological Development Türkiye Chairman of Baynuna Group for Companies Man- Major General Khalid agement, Abdulla Mubarak Al Chairman Formal Commander of UAE Bu-ainnain Al Mazrouei Air Force and Air Defence, UAE Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre Commander, German Air Lieutenant General Joachim Force Air Operations Com- NATO Air Power - Quo Wundrak mand vadis? Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem, Germany Associate Professor at the Between Autonomy and Department of Political Dependence: Role of Think Associate Professor Jong Science and International Tank and R&D Institutions Kun Choi Studies at Yonsei University, in South Korea’s Air and Republic of Korea Space Power Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air Force at Dr. Sanu Kainikara TBD the Air Power Development Centre, Australia Strategic Analyst of Royal Linking Strategy to Op- Canadian Air Force at the erations Using Air Power Dr. Brad Gladman Canadian Forces Aerospace Knowledge Development as Warfare Centre, Canada a Catalyst President of IRIS Indepen- dent Research and Director Four Technologies for Dr. Rebecca Grant of the Washington Security Future Air Warfare Forum, USA 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch 11 April 2014 Friday 14.30 - 16.30 5’th Session: Air Power And Society Speaker Title Subject H. H. Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Air and Space Power Electrical Engineering at Drexel Professor Banu Onaral as Drivers of Civilian University, (Keynote Speaker) Innovation and Founding Director of the School Economic Development of Biomedical Engineering Sci- ence and Health Systems, USA Professor of International Rela- tions and Head of International Professor Nurşin Relations Department at Yıldız Chairlady Ateşoğlu Gü ney Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye Visiting Professor at National Are We Suffering From Brigadier General Dr. Defense University, Tunnel Vision? Airpower Zenon Smutniak (Ret.) Former Rector of National De- As Seen By Airmen fense University, Poland Distinguished Fellow at the Air Power: Societal Tool Manmohan Bahadur Centre for Air Power Studies, of a Higher Calling (Ret.) New Delhi, Permanent Professor and Head Tribal Warfare: The Colonel Professor Mark Department of History, United Society of Modern K. Wells States Air Force Academy, USA Airmen Head of Joint Personnel Recov- The History of Turkish Colonel Gökhan ery Branch, Chief of Joint Target Air Force Rescue Sönmezateş Analysis Center, TurAF, Türkiye Operations Aviation Author and President of Depictions of Air Power Mr. Philip Handleman Handleman Filmworks, USA in Western Art. Closing Speech Speaker Title Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air Force at the Dr. Sanu Kainikara Air Power Development Centre, Australia General Akın Öztürk Turkish Air Force Commander

Opening Speech International Symposium on the History of Air Warfare - ISAW 2014

General Akın ÖZTÜRK, was born in 1952 in Gümüşhane. After completing his high school education in Erzincan, he graduated from Turkish Air Force Academy in 1973. Upon graduating from 2nd Main Jet Base (MJB) Flight Training School as fi ghter pilot in 1975, he was assigned to 7th MJB, Malatya where he served as F-100 and then F-4 pilot until 1981. Between 1981 and 1985, he was assigned to 1st MJB, Eskişehir where he served as Squadron Offi cer and Standardization and Evaluation Branch Chief. He attended Air War College in 1985 and graduated in 1987. He was assigned to 3rd MJB as Standardization and Evaluation Offi cer in 1987. In 1989 he was assigned to 4th MJB where he became an F-16 pilot. He served as 141st Squadron Operations Offi cer between 1989 and 1991. He then served as 141st Squadron Commander until 1993. Between 1993 and 1996 he served as Project Offi cer and Branch Chief in Training Department at Turkish Air Headquarters. He was the Turkish Military attache to Israel between 1996 and 1998. He then became the Operations Commander of the 6th MJB, Bandırma between 1998 and 2000. After his promotion to Brigadier General in 2000, he served as Chief of Training Department in Air Force Headquarters for two years and as the Commander of 9th MJB until 2004. As of 2004 he was promoted to Major General and assigned as Commander of 2nd Air Supply and Maintenance Center for two years. In 2006 he assumed the command of 2nd MJB. In 2008, he became the Chief of Intelligence of Turkish Air Force. In 2009, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and served as the 2nd Air Force Commander for two years. He then became the Commander of the Air . As of 22 August 2013, General ÖZTÜRK assumed the duty of the Turkish Air Force Commander. He has been promoted to the rank of General as of 30 August 2013. General ÖZTÜRK is married to Mrs. Tülay ÖZTÜRK, has a daughter and a son. Brigadier General R. Sami Özatak Turkish Air War College Commander

Welcome Speech International Symposium on the History of Air Warfare - ISAW 2014

Brigadier General R. Sami ÖZATAK joined the Turkish Air Force in 1987 and served as fi ghter pilot in various combat units. He succeeded in fi ghter pilot training in 1989. After having Combat Readiness training in 3 rd Main Jet Base, he became an F-4 pilot. Between 1990 and1995, he served as wingman and fl ight leader in the 1 st Main Jet Base.

He attended F-16 transition training in USA in 1995 and assigned to 8 th Main Jet Base. He attended the Turkish Air War College between 1997 and 1999. He served in various operational positions in 2 nd Air Force Command and 6 th Main Jet Base between 1999 and 2004. He was assigned as German Air Attache in 2004. Between 2006 and 2009, he worked in Human Source Management and as Student Regiment Commander in Turkish Air Force Academy.

Between 2008-2010, he was Operations Commander in 9 th Main Jet Base and between 2010-2012 he worked as Chief of Operations Division in Turkish Air Force Headquarters.

He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on 30 August 2012 and assigned to his current duty as the Commander of Turkish Air War College. He is married to Mrs. Hatice ÖZATAK and has two sons. General Mirco Zuliani Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (DSACT)

Keynote Speaker of the Symposium International Symposium on the History of Air Warfare - ISAW 2014 “Air Power: Leading Continuous Transformation”

General Mirco ZULIANI joined the Italian Air Force Academy in 1974 as an Offi cer Cadet and graduated in 1978.

In 1980 he completed fl ight training and became military pilot on G.91.T aircraft. In November 1980 he completed the qualifi cation on F.104S aircraft and was assigned to 155th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 51st Wing at Istrana/Treviso AFB.

Soon after, he was selected to join the Italian Air Force Flight Test Center at Pratica di Mare AFB and attended the “RAF Empire Test Pilot” Course at Boscombe Down, UK. As Experimental Test Pilot, he was responsible for several experimental programs, chief trainer for Production Test Courses and Lead in fl ight display both for G222 and Tornado aircraft.

In 1990, he was appointed Squadron Commander of 132nd Squadron “Buscaglia” and in 1991 Chief of Operations of the 3rd Wing in Villafranca AFB.

Afterwards, in 1993, he was assigned to the Italian Air Force Staff – 4th Department (Logistics) where he was in charge of several acquisition programs for the Italian airborne fl eets.

Upon promotion to Colonel, he was assigned as Commander of the 36th Fighter Bomber Wing at Gioia del Colle AFB during the crisis, from 1998 to 2000. Later, he served as Chief of 5th Offi ce “Logistic Support” in the Italian Air Force Command.

As Brigadier General, from 2003 to 2006 he served in the Italian Air Force Logistic Command, initially as Deputy Chief of Staff and then as Commander of the 2nd Division (Aircrafts, Weapons and Avionics Technical & Logistic Support). He served as the Defence and Defence Cooperation Attaché in the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C. (USA) from 2006 to 2009.

From 2009 to 2011, with the rank of Major General, he was in charge of the New Weapon Systems Projects for the Italian Defence, as Chief of 4th Department, Offi ce of the National Directorate of Armament/Secretary General of Defence in Rome, and then Commander of the Italian Air Force Flight Test Center.

Promoted Lieutenant General in 2012, his initial assignment was Commander of the ITA AF Air Operations Centre and NATO Combined Air Operations Centre, Poggio Renatico (Ferrara) before being appointed as Designated Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation.

Gen. Zuliani is qualifi ed on more than 45 different types of aircrafts and helicopters and has fl own more than 3.700 hours.

As part of his professional training, he attended the Air War College in Florence, the Test Pilot Course at the RAF Empire Test Pilot School at Boscombe Down (UK), the USAF Air War College at Maxwell in Alabama (USA) and the NATO Weapon Systems Management Course in Munich (GE).

He has a B.A. in Aeronautical Science at the University of Napoli and in International and Diplomatic Science at the University of Trieste.

His awards and decorations include Military Air Navigation Golden Medal, Golden Military Service Cross, “Commendatore” of Merit of the Italian Republic, “Mauriziana” Medal, NATO Medals for service on operations in Ex Yugoslavia and Kosovo and “Commendatore” of Air Merit of the Brazil Federal Republic.

In 2001, he was awarded the Honorary Offi cer Medal of British Empire Military Division by H.M. Queen Elizabeth.

General Zuliani is married to Mrs Carla and they have a son, Marco. Colonel John A. Warden III, USAF (Ret) Air Power Theorist, CEO Venturist Inc.

Keynote Speaker of the 1st Session Air Power In Theory And Implementation “21st Century Airpower Theory: Next Steps”

John A. Warden III is the president of Venturist, Inc., the company he founded after retiring from the Air Force in 1995 His company helps corporations and organizations learn and execute the concepts of winning strategy. Venturist clients have included Texas Instruments, McDonald’s, government agencies, and many others. His diverse background includes serving as the architect for the successful 1991 Desert Storm air campaign, authoring the best-selling The Air Campaign, heading the Air Force’s Air Command and , working as Special Assistant to the Vice President of the United States, commanding the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-15s) in Germany; and fl ying in the Vietnam War (266 combat missions). His business strategy book, Winning in FastTime, is available on-line and in selected book stores as is The Air Campaign.

He has published numerous articles on planning, strategy, and aerospace power, has appeared on many television and radio shows, and has spoken to groups ranging from the American Bar Association to most of the US’s intermediate and senior professional military education schools and to defense colleges in Australia, Singapore, Norway, , Denmark, Chile, Brazil, and France. He was the 1989 winner of the Air Force Association’s arts and letters Gill Robb Wilson award.

John Warden graduated from the Academy in 1965, completed pilot training in 1966, earned a Master’s degree from Texas Tech University in 1975, and graduated from the National War College in 1986. His military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal with ten oak leaf clusters. He has over 3,000 hours of fl ying time. Major General Kubilay Selçuk Director of Command and Control Department in Turkish General Staff

Chairman of the 1st Session Air Power In Theory And Implementation

Major General Kubilay Selçuk was born in 1961 in Malatya. After completing high school education at ‘Kuleli Military High School’ in Istanbul, he graduated from Turkish Air Force Academy in 1982. Upon graduating from 2nd Main Jet Base (MJB) Flight Training School as fi ghter pilot in 1984, he was assigned to 9th MJB, Balıkesir, where he served as fi ghter pilot till 1990. In 1990, he was assigned to 4th MJB, Ankara. He attended College in 1992 and graduated in 1994. In 1994, he was assigned to 2nd Air Force Command and he served as Chief of Operation Section. He served as ‘National Maneuver Exercise Offi cer’ in 1995- 97 and served as Operations Section Head in 1997-98. He was assigned to NATO School Oberammergau, Germany as ‘Teaching and Course Director’. Then he was assigned to 5th MJB again as 151st Sq. Commander in 2001 and served for 1 year. He served at Turkish Air Force (TURAF) Headquarters Personel Division as Assignment Project Offi cer in 2001. During this assignment he attended the Armed Forces Higher Command and Management College. Gen. Selçuk served at TURAF Headquarters in 2003 as Offi cer Branch Head, assigned to 4th MJB as Head of Supervision and Evaluation Directorate in 2005, assigned to 4th MJB as Operations Commander for one year in 2006, served at TURAF Headquarters again in 2007 as Electronic Warfare Branch Head. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 2008 and served as Director of Training Department between 2008 and 2010, then he became the Commander of the 9th MJB, Balıkesir in 2010. As of 2012, Gen. Selçuk was promoted to Major General and assumed the duty of the Director of Command and Control Department in Turkish General Staff. He has more than 3000 hours fl ying time in different aircrafts.

Gen. Selçuk is married to Mrs. Nuray, has two daughters. Air Commodore ID (Paddy) Teakle Head of Joint Doctrine, Air & Space, Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre

Speaker in the 1st Session Air Power In Theory And Implementation “His Greatest Gift – Trenchard’s Theories on Airpower”

Air Commodore Paddy Teakle joined the in 1978. After navigator training at No 6 Flying Training School, RAF Finningley he was posted to the Vulcan force. He subsequently joined the Victor Force at RAF Marham, where he participated in Op CORPORATE (the Falklands War). In 1985, he converted to the Tornado GR and was posted to XV Sqn at RAF Laarbruch, from where he completed the Tornado QWI Course in 1988. During Op GRANBY (Gulf War I), he fl ew 21 operational missions from Bahrain.

Promoted to Squadron Leader in 1991, he was assigned as the Tornado Desk Offi cer at HQ RAF Germany and HQ 2 Gp before returning to the front line in 1994 as the Flight Commander responsible for the introduction of ALARM into RAF service with IX(B) Sqn at RAF Bruggen. He attended the Joint Service Defence College, Greenwich in 1996 and following a year with the Al Yamamah project in London, was promoted to Wing Commander and posted to Incirlik, Turkey as DCFACC for Operation NORTHERN WATCH. On return he went to the Air Warfare Centre where he was responsible for Offensive Air Doctrine. In March 1999 he deployed to the 5ATAF CAOC at Vicenza, where he was Chief of Strategy for Op ALLIED FORCE (Kosovo Campaign) for which he was made an OBE in the 2000 New Years Honours list.

From September 2000 to May 2003 he commanded 31 Sqn at RAF Bruggen and latterly RAF Marham. During Op TELIC (Gulf War II) he established and commanded the Combat Air Wing at Ali Al Salem, for which he was awarded a DSO in the Operational Honours List. Following a short time on the directing staff of the Advanced Command and Staff Course he was promoted to Group Captain and took up the post of Director UK Joint Force Air Component from where he deployed to Islamabad, Pakistan in 2005 as Deputy CFACC for the NATO Earthquake Relief Mission. In 2006, he was posted to NATO as A3 Division Head at ACC Ramstein. Promoted to Air Commodore in February 2009 he completed a one year tour in Kabul, as Director of ISAF Air Operations before taking up an appointment as Assistant Director Transformation at the Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany, in May 2010. He followed this with a tour as Director of the CENTCOM Combined Air and Space Operations Centre in Al Udeid, , an appointment he held from May to September 2011. He took up his current appointment in January 2012.

Air Commodore Teakle is married with 3 children. He is an avid Manchester City supporter and enjoys all sports. His other interests include military history, cooking and fi ne wine. Professor Luciano Bozzo Political Science and Sociology Department (DISPO) of the University of Florence

Speaker in the 1st Session Air Power In Theory And Implementation “Post Cold War Airpower: The Curious Case of Vanishing Strategic Effectiveness”

Luciano Bozzo is a Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence, where he teaches International Relations and Theories of International Politics, as well as having taught Techniques of Negotiation and Mediation and Strategic Studies. Between the academic years 1996/1997 and 2004/2005, he taught International Relations at the University of Bologna, and in the academic year 1993/1994 he was professor of Polemologia at the University of Triest. From 1989/1990 to 1998/1999, he taught Global Strategy at the War College of the Italian Air Force.

Since the academic year of 2009/2010, Luciano Bozzo has held the directorship for the Master Program in “Leadership and Strategic Planning”, a joint program between the Italian Air Force and the University of Florence within which he teaches International Politics and Strategic Studies. He has taught for the Master Program in “Human Rights and Confl ict Management” in Pisa at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, as well as for the Master Program in “Media and Communications”, at the University of Florence.

During the years 1998-2000, he was involved in various confi dence and security building activities in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, within the framework of the Dayton Peace process, as the Assistant of the Personal Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairman in offi ce. He also directed several research projects for the Military Centre for Strategic Studies (CEMISS) of the Italian Joint Chiefs of Staff in Rome from the end of the Eighties to the beginning of the present decade. In October 1996, he was “team leader” in the mission organized by the Italian Foreign Offi ce in order to monitor the administrative elections in . In 1990, he participated in the UN Program of Fellowships on Disarmament of the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs both in Geneva and at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Luciano Bozzo is currently a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), in London, and, since its inception in 2001, is the Director of the Centre for Strategic, International, and Entrepreneurial Studies (CSSII) at the University of Florence. His research activity focuses primarily on strategy and the strategic theory of action. Professor Mark Clodfelter Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College, Washington, DC.

Speaker in the 1st Session Air Power In Theory And Implementation “Theory, Implementation, and the Future of Air Power”

Dr. Mark Clodfelter is a Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College in Washington, DC. A former U.S. Air Force offi cer, he served in radar assignments in South Carolina and Korea during a 23-year Air Force career devoted largely to teaching. He twice taught history at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and ultimately served as the Academy’s director of military history. From 1991-1994, he taught at Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) as one of the school’s initial group of eight professors. He next became Professor of Aerospace Studies and Commander of the Air Force ROTC detachment at the University of North Carolina. He began teaching at the National War College in 1997, fi rst in uniform, and since 2000 as a civilian professor. Mark has published extensively on air power topics. He has won several writing awards, and many of his publications are used as readings in professional military education courses in the US and in NATO countries. He is the author of The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam (Free Press, 1989), which U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Ronald Fogleman selected for the Chief’s intermediate reading list in 1996. The RAF Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, placed the paperback edition of the book on his “top ten” reading list in 2007. Mark is also the author of Benefi cial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945 (University of Nebraska Press, 2011), a book analyzing how progressive ideals infl uenced the American approach to strategic bombing before and during World War II, and why progressive air power notions have endured to the present in the U.S. Air Force. He has a BS in European History from the U.S. Air Force Academy (1977), an MA in Military History from the University of Nebraska (1983), and a PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1987). He is a die-hard fan of North Carolina basketball, Air Force Academy football, and St. Louis Cardinals baseball. Dr. Colonel Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF (Ret) Military Historian, Former Dean of the School of Advanced Airpower Studies

Speaker in the 1st Session Air Power In Theory And Implementation “Air Targeting: An Overview”

Phillip S. Meilinger served 30 years in the US Air Force as a command pilot, staff offi cer and educator. He was an instructor pilot and fl ight examiner in Air Training Command and then fl ew C-130 and HC-130 aircraft in Europe and the Pacifi c. He was a staff offi cer in the Pacifi c Airlift Control Center and was an action offi cer in the Pentagon.

He received a PhD in military history from the University of Michigan and taught at the US Air Force Academy, Naval War College, and was Dean of the School of Advanced Airpower Studies (now School of Advanced Air and Space Studies) at Maxwell AFB. Upon retirement from the Air Force is worked as a defense analyst in the Washington DC area.

He is the author of ten books and over 100 articles on military and aviation theory, history and operations. His most recent book is Bomber: The Formation and Early Years of Strategic Air Command, published Edwin Mellen and Air University Press in 2013. He is currently working on a book dealing with Airpower in modern war. Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Keynote Speaker of the 2nd Session Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare “Air Power Comes of Age: The Maturation of Aerial Warfare in the Late 20th Century”

Benjamin S. Lambeth is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent, nonprofi t public policy research institute established in Washington, D.C. in 1983 to promote innovative thinking and debate about national security strategy, defense planning, and military investment strategies and options. He assumed this position in July 2011 after a 37-year career as a Senior Research Associate at the RAND Corporation. His areas of professional interest include strategy, international security, defense planning, force development, air campaign assessment, and air and space doctrine, operations and training. An internationally recognized expert on military aviation and air warfare, he has conducted research and lectured widely on these subjects, including at all of the U.S. senior military service schools. He also has written more than 70 books, articles, and professional studies on air power and other defense-related matters.

A civil-rated pilot, Dr. Lambeth has fl own or fl own in more than 40 different fi ghter, bomber, attack, mobility, surveillance, and trainer aircraft types with the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as with the Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Netherlands Air Force, Royal Norwegian Air Force, German Luftwaffe, Republic of Korea Air Force, Finnish Air Force, and Israeli Air Force. He also has attended the USAF’s Ballistic Missile Staff Course, Tactical Fighter Weapons and Tactics Course, and Combined Force Air Component Commander Course, as well as the Aerospace Defense Command’s Senior Offi cers’ Course, Air Force Space Command’s Senior Leaders’ Course, and portions of Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor’s Course. In 1988, he received initial qualifi cation training and a front-seat checkout in the F/A-18 Hornet. In December 1989, he became the fi rst U.S. citizen to fl y the Soviet MiG-29 fi ghter and the fi rst Westerner invited to fl y a combat aircraft of any type inside Soviet airspace since the end of World War II.

In 1985 and 1986, Dr. Lambeth served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Advanced Airmanship at General Electric Company. He also served on the editorial board of Orbis from 1985 to 1990 and for a time directed RAND’s International Security and Defense Policy Program. In 1996, he took a four- day deployment in USS Atlanta (SSN-712) to observe prospective commanding offi cer training in nuclear fast attack submarine-on-submarine operations. In 1998, he was a participant-observer in the Mission Employment Phase of USAF Weapons School Class 98A at Nellis AFB, Nevada. In 2008, he was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to serve as a member of the Board of Visitors of Air University. In addition, he currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Strategic Studies Quarterly, Air and Space Power Journal, and the Journal of Slavic Military Studies. He remains an adjunct member of RAND’s senior research staff, holds a Top Secret/SCI security clearance, and is profi cient in Russian, German, and French.

EDUCATION 1965 Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1967 Master of Arts degree with Distinction in Government, Georgetown University 1985 Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Harvard University

PAST WORK HISTORY 1975-2011 Senior Research Associate, RAND Corporation 1973-1974 Senior Analyst, Offi ce of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency 1972-1973 Resident Scholar, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, Germany 1971-1972 Teaching Fellow in Government, Harvard University 1971-1973 Graduate Research Associate, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 1966-1969 Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses 1965-1966 Research Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

HONORS AND AWARDS 1967 Invited to membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honorary fraternity 1991 Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy 2001 Recipient of the Air Force Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award in Arts and Letters 2002 Elected an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians, the national fraternity of U.S. military pilots

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS “Nuclear Proliferation and Soviet Arms Control Policy,” Orbis, Fall 1969 “Deterrence in the MIRV Era,” World Politics, January 1972 Selective Nuclear Operations in American and Soviet Strategic Policy, RAND Corporation, December 1976 “The Political Potential of Soviet Equivalence,” International Security, Fall 1979 “Soviet Strategic Conduct and the Prospects for Stability,” in The Future of Strategic Deterrence, IISS, 1980 “Uncertainties for the Soviet War Planner,” International Security, Winter 1982-83 “Pitfalls in Force Planning: Structuring America’s Tactical Air Arm,” International Security, Fall 1985 “Moscow’s Lessons from the 1982 Lebanon Air War,” in War in the Third Dimension, Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1986 “Theater Forces,” in American Defense Annual 1987-88, Lexington Books, 1987 “The Kremlin and SDI,” Foreign Affairs, Spring 1988 “The Outlook for Tactical Air Power in the Decade Ahead,” in Air Power, Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1988 From Farnborough to Kubinka: An American MiG-29 Experience, RAND Corporation, 1991 “What the Russians Learned from the Gulf War,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, October 5, 1992 “Flying the Flogger,” Flight International, February 23, 1994 “Russia’s Wounded Military,” Foreign Affairs, March-April 1995 “The Uses and Abuses of Air Power,” Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1995 “To Dominate the Skies: Why America Continues to Need the F-22,” Armed Forces Journal, November 1995 “The Technology Revolution in Air Warfare,” Survival, Spring 1997

“Bounding the Air Power Debate,” Strategic Review, Fall 1997. “Air Power, Space Power, and Geography,” The Journal of Strategic Studies, June/September 1999 “Why Submariners Should Talk to Fighter Pilots,” The Submarine Review, October 1999

Russia’s Air Power in Crisis, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999 The Transformation of American Air Power, Cornell University Press, 2000 NATO’s Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment, RAND Corporation, 2001 “The Air Force Renaissance,” in The Air Force, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2002 Mastering the Ultimate High Ground: Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space, RAND Corporation, 2003 Singapore’s Combat Aircraft Competition, King’s College London, January 2004 American Carrier Air Power at the Dawn of a New Century, RAND Corporation, 2005 Air Power against Terror: America’s Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom, RAND Corporation, 2005 “A Transformed U. S. Air Force at 60,” in United States Air Force: Founding Centennial and 60th Anniversary, 2007 Combat Pair: The Evolution of Air Force-Navy Integration in Strike Warfare, RAND Corporation, 2007 “Air Power in a Nutshell,” in Global Strategic Assessment 2009, National Defense University Press, 2009 “Refl ections on the Balkan Air Wars,” Air Power History, Spring 2010

“Air Power, Space Power, and Cyber Power,” Joint Force Quarterly, First Quarter, 2011 Air Operations in Israel’s War against Hezbollah, RAND Corporation, 2011 Airpower at 18,000’: The in the Kargil War, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012 “Israel’s War in Gaza: A Paradigm of Effective Military Learning and Adaptation,” International Security, Fall 2012 “Lessons from Modern Warfare,” Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2013. The Unseen War: Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein, Naval Institute Press, 2013

AERONAUTICAL BACKGROUND Nearly 500 hours of combined military fl ight experience in the T-33, T-37 (left seat), T-38 (front seat), F-100, F-101, F-104 (front seat), F-105, F-106, FB-111 (left seat), F-111C (left seat), F-4C/D/E/F, RF-4, F-5B/F (front seat), F-14 (two traps in USS Kitty Hawk), F-15B/D/E, F-16B/D, F/A-18B (front seat), F/A-18D/F, Mirage IIID/5B, Kfi r TC-2, TA-4, EA-6B, TA-7C, A-7K, TAV-8B, A-37, CT-114, T-2C, Alpha Jet, Aermacchi MB 326H, PC-9 (front seat), T-50, MiG-21 (front seat), MiG-23 (front seat), MiG-29, Su-30, Hawk T1/127, Harrier T4, Tornado GR1T/GR4, Jaguar T2, Typhoon T3, EMB-312 Tucano (front seat), and U-2. Also T-6C and AT-6 (both front seat), T-28B (front seat), T-34A (front seat), AH- 1W, OV-10, B-52H, B-1B (left seat), Canberra T4, KC-135A (left seat), XV-15 (left seat), C-17 (left seat), C-47 (left seat), C-130, C-131, E-3 AWACS, Valmet Redigo L-90 TP, and Wright B Flyer replica, plus high g-tolerance centrifuge training, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, and U.S. Parachute Association B License with 44 jumps (34 free-fall). Major General Rubén Carlos García Servert Commander, NATO Combined Air Operations Center Torrejón (CAOC TJ)

Chairman of the 2nd Session Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare

Major General Servert is the Commander of NATO’s Combined Air Operation Center at Torrejón Air Base, Spain.

Born on 18th April 1958 in Madrid, he joined the Air Force Academy in 1975 and his fi rst assignment was the 31st Wing at Zaragoza, where he served as a Pilot in the period from 1981 to 1985. He continued to serve in different Air Force Units until 1995, when he was assigned to the Air Warfare School as Head of Strategy & International Affairs Department.

In 1996, he became Air Attaché to the Embassy of Spain in Paris; then in 1999 he was assigned to the Cabinet of the Minister of Defense as Counselor. Later on, in 2005, he was nominated Commandant of the Air Force Academy.

In the period 2009-2010, he was the Commander of Kabul Airport (Afganistan). Once promoted to Brigadier General, he was assigned to the Air Force Staff – General Secretary as Chief of International Affairs, until he was promoted to Major General in late 2012 and reached his current assignment as Commander CAOC TJ in early 2013.

During his career, he has joined different NATO/UN Operations as aircrew: KFOR, ONUSAL, ONUCA and UNPROFOR (ex-Yugoslavia), and got over 6000 fl ying hours as a pilot.

His military education includes Navigator Course (Initial and Advanced) USAF, Defense Attachés Course, NATO TACEVAL Evaluator, NATO Defense College and Flag Offi cers Course. He speaks fl uently English, French and German languages. He has been awarded the Great Cross of the Royal and Military Order of San Hermenegildo, Great Cross of the Air Force Merit, Cross of Naval Merit, Cross of the Guardia Civil Merit as well as foreign decorations: Knight of the Legion d´Honneur of France, Liberation Medal, Santos-Dumont Merit Medal of Brazilian Air Force.

Major General Servert is the author of several articles and papers: IEEE Opinion Paper no. 3/2010, “An Insight of Afghanistan: A Chronicle of Spanish Leadership in Kabul Airport”, and “NATO Strategic Concept, a Spanish point of view”, among other; and achieved the Bachelors & Masters Degrees in Laws and Political Sciences.

He is married and has 2 sons and 2 daughters. Brigadier General Dr. Ahmet Cural Commander of Turkish Air Force NCO College and Air Specialty Schools, Former Dean of Turkish Air Force Academy

Speaker in the 2nd Session Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare “The Vital Role Of Air Power In The Struggle Of A Nation’s Liberty: The Great Offensive In The War Of Turkish Independence Case”

Brigadier General Ahmet CURAL was born in 1963 in Bafra/Samsun/Turkey. After completed his high school education in Bafra, he entered to Air Force Academy in 1982. Upon graduated from Air Force Academy in 1986 as Lieutenant, he was assigned to Air Technical Schools Command for his “Offi cer Basic Training”. After his Offi cer Basic Branch Training at Air Defense School he was assigned to his fi rst duty to 3rd Air Force Base Command/Konya as an air defense offi cer.

In 1996, he entered to Air Force War College. After a two-year training, he was assigned to General Staff HQ as a staff offi cer. In 1999, he was assigned to Turkish Air Force HQ - Operation Division as plannig offi cer.

Between 2000-2002, he was assigned to permanent abroad duty to USA and worked as “Exchange Offi cer” on Keesler AFB, Missisippi.

In 2002, upon completed his abroad duty, he was assigned to 4th Air Force Base Command and a year later, to Air Force HQ General Secretariat.

In 2005, he was selected for “Master Education” program in National Defense University, USA. After he completed his study on National Security Strategies in his master program he was assigned to Air Force HQ as Scientifi c Decision Support Division Manager.

Between 2007-2011, he worked as the Dean of Air Force Academy, Istanbul. In August 2011, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to Air Technical Schools Command. Since then, he has still been working as NCO College and Air Services Schools Commander. Brigadier General CURAL has two Master Degrees on “International Relations” at Istanbul University and “National Security Strategies” at Air Defense University,USA; and a doctorate on “International Relations” at Social Science Faculty, Ankara University.

Brigadier General Ahmet CURAL is married to Mrs. Hafi ze CURAL and has two daughters. Colonel Professor John Andreas Olsen Deputy Director General in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Visiting Professor of Operational Art and Tactics at the Swedish National Defence College

Speaker in the 2nd Session Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare “The Pursuit of Victory Through Airpower”

Colonel John Andreas Olsen is a deputy director general in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and a visiting professor of operational art and tactics at the Swedish National Defence College. He was the deputy commander and chief of the NATO Advisory Team at NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo, from 2009 to 2012. His previous assignments include tours as dean of the Norwegian Defence University College and head of its division for strategic studies.

Colonel Olsen is a graduate of the German Command and Staff College and has served both as liaison offi cer to the German Operational Command in Potsdam and as military assistant to the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.

He has a doctorate in history and international relations from De Montfort University, a master’s degree in contemporary literature from the University of Warwick, and a master’s degree in English from the University of Trondheim.

Professor Olsen is the author of Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm (2003) and John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power (2007); co-author of Destination NATO: Defence Reform in , 2003 2013 (2013); editor of On New Wars (2006), A History of Air Warfare (2010), Global Air Power (2011), Air Commanders (2012) and European Air Power (2014); and co- editor of The Evolution of Operational Art: From Napoleon to the Present (2011) and The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present (2012). Professor James Corum Dean of the Baltic Defence College

Speaker in the 2nd Session Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare “The Origins of Air Power Thought 100 Years Ago”

Dr. James S. Corum (BA, Gonzaga University; MA, Brown University; MLitt, Oxford University; PhD, Queen’s University) was a professor U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth from 2005-2008. He was a professor at the USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies, an elite course for USAF strategists, at USAF Air University. He is a retired US Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and served in in 2004. Dr. Corum was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2005. Dr. Corum, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, is a graduate of Army Command and General Staff College and Air War College.

Dr. Corum is author of ten books on military history, counterinsurgency and more than 70 major articles and book chapters on military history subjects. He is the author of “The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform” (University Press of Kansas, 1992), “The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940” (University Press of Kansas, 1997), and (with Richard Muller) “The Luftwaffe’s Way of War: German Air Force Doctrine, 1911–1945” (Nautical and Aviation Publishing Co., 1998). Dr. Corum also wrote (with Wray R. Johnson) “Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists” (University Press of Kansas, 2003) and “Training Indigenous Forces in Counterinsurgency: A Tale of Two Insurgencies” (the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, 2007). Fighting the War on Terror, concerns counterinsurgency strategy and was published by Zenith Press in February 2007. Bad Strategies: How Great Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency was published by Zenith Press in 2008. In 2011 Dr. Corum edited and co-authored Rearming Germany (Brill, Leiden), a study of Germany in the early Cold War. In 2012 he edited the translation and revision of the First World War Encyclopedia (2 vols) by Brill Press. Dr. Andrij Kharuk Chief of Department of Humanitarian Sciences at the Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi Army Academy

Speaker in the 2nd Session Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare “East Front Close Air Support: Attempt of Comparative Analysis”

Andrij Kharuk was born in September, 22, 1972 in Novovolynsk city, Volynskij region, Ukraine. In 1994 graduated from the Faculty of History of the Volyn State University . Worked as a lecturer in social sciences Novovolynsij Electromechanical College.Since 2002 he worked as a senior lecturer , then as a docent at the National University “Lviv Politechnic”. Since 2012 worked as a Chief of Department of Humanitarian Sciences at the Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi Army Academy, Lviv.

In 2000 he defended his dissertation (Ph.D.), specialty “military history” on the topic “Ukrainian Air Force in 1917-1921”. In 2011 he defended his dissertation on a rank “Doctor of historical sciences” on the topic “Aircraft industry in Ukraine as part of the military-industrial complex in 1910 - 1980.”

Author of more than 200 publications on the military history. Sphere of scientifi c interests - military history of the twentieth century in Ukraine, the history of the aviation industry, as well as the history of military use of aviation in World War II. General Frank Gorenc Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa, Commander Allied Air Command, Ramstein Air Base, Germany Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany Keynote Speaker of the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service “Independent Air Forces in the 21st Century”

Gen. Frank Gorenc is Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa, Commander Allied Air Command, headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany; and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany. He is responsible for Air Force activities, conducted through 3rd Air Force, in an area of operations covering more than 19 million square miles. This area includes 104 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and the Arctic, Atlantic and Indian oceans, and possesses more than a quarter of the world’s population and generates more than a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product.

General Gorenc was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He earned his commission in 1979 as a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has commanded a fi ghter squadron, an operations group, two wings, the Air Force District Washington, and a component Numbered Air Force. General Gorenc has served in numerous positions at Air Combat Command, the Air Staff, the Joint Staff, and at U.S. European Command/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.

The general is a command pilot with more than 4,500 fl ight hours.

EDUCATION 1979 Distinguished graduate, Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 1983 Squadron Offi cer School, by correspondence 1986 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence 1986 NATO Tactical Leadership Program, Jever AB, West Germany 1988 Distinguished graduate, U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nev. 1989 Master of Aeronautical Science degree, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla. 1994 Air War College, by seminar 1995 Master of Science degree in national security strategy, National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 2006 Joint Force Air Component Commander Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 2007 Capstone Flag Offi cer Course, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 2008 Joint Flag Offi cer Warfi ghter Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 2008 Defense Policy Seminar, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 2009 Cyberspace Operations Executive Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 2011 Pinnacle General and Flag Offi cer Course, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.

ASSIGNMENTS 1. August 1979 - December 1980, student, undergraduate pilot training, Vance AFB, Okla. 2. December 1980 - April 1984, T-38A instructor pilot and fl ight examiner, 25th Flying Training Squadron, Vance AFB, Okla. 3. April 1984 - August 1984, student, F-15 Replacement Training Unit, Luke AFB, Ariz. 4. August 1984 - April 1988, F-15C aircraft commander, fl ight examiner and fl ight commander, 525th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Bitburg AB, West Germany 5. April 1988 - October 1991, F-15C aircraft commander and Chief, Weapons and Tactics, 94th Fighter Squadron, Langley AFB, Va. 6. October 1991 - March 1992, Chief, Weapons and Tactics, 1st Fighter Wing, Langley AFB, Va. 7. March 1992 - June 1992, aide to the Commander, Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB, Va. 8. June 1992 - September 1993, aide to the Commander, Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va. 9. September 1993 - August 1994, Chief, Operational Offi cer Assignments Branch, ACC, Langley AFB, Va. 10. August 1994 - September 1995, student, National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 11. September 1995 - January 1996, operations offi cer, 390th Fighter Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho 12. January 1996 - June 1997, Commander, 390th Fighter Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho 13. June 1997 - January 1998, special assistant to Operations Group Commander, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho 14. January 1998 - December 2000, Chief, Studies, Analysis and Gaming Division, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 15. December 2000 - August 2002, Commander, 18th Operations Group, Kadena AB, Japan 16. August 2002- September 2003, special assistant to U.S. European Command/ Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Mons, Belgium 17. September 2003 - June 2005, Commander, 1st Fighter Wing, Langley AFB, Va. 18. June 2005 - July 2006, Commander, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, Balad AB, Iraq 19. August 2006 - June 2007, Director, Operational Plans and Joint Matters, Deputy Chief of Staff for Air, Space and Information Operations, Plans and Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 20. June 2007 - August 2008, Commander, Air Force District of Washington, Andrews AFB, Md. 21. August 2008 - August 2009, Director of Air and Space Operations, Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Va. 22. August 2009 - March 2012, Commander, 3rd Air Force, Ramstein AB, Germany 23. April 2012 - August 2013, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 24. August 2013 - present, Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Africa; Commander, Air Component Command, headquartered at Ramstein Air Base, Germany; and Director, Joint Air Power Competency Centre, Kalkar, Germany SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS 1. January 1998 - December 2000, Chief, Studies, Analysis and Gaming Division, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., as a lieutenant colonel and colonel 2. August 2002 - September 2003, special assistant to U.S. European Command/ Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Mons, Belgium, as a colonel 3. June 2005 - July 2006, Commander, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, Balad AB, Iraq, as a colonel and brigadier general

FLIGHT INFORMATION Rating: Command pilot Flight hours: More than 4,500 Aircraft fl own: T-38A, F-15C, MQ-1B, UH-1N and C-21

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters Airman’s Medal Bronze Star Medal Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters Aerial Achievement Medal with silver oak leaf cluster Joint Service Commendation Medal Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster Air Force Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster Combat Readiness Medal with four oak leaf clusters National Defense Service Medal with bronze star Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Southwest Asia Service Medal Iraq Campaign Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Air and Space Campaign Medal NATO Medal OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS 2006 Joseph A. Moller Trophy, Air Combat Command’s Outstanding Wing Commander

EFFECTIVE DATES OF OF PROMOTION Second Lieutenant May 30, 1979 First Lieutenant May 30, 1981 Captain May 30, 1983 Major June 1, 1990 Lieutenant Colonel March 1, 1994 Colonel Sept. 1, 1998 Brigadier General Oct. 1, 2005 Major General Feb. 1, 2008 Lieutenant General Aug. 24, 2009 General Aug. 2, 2013 (Current as of August 2013) Mr. Sebastian Cox Head of the Air Historical Branch (RAF) in the UK Ministry of Defence

Chairman of the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service

Sebastian Cox is the Head of the Air Historical Branch (RAF) in the UK Ministry of Defence and one of the three Co-Directors of the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies. He is an elected Trustee of the international Society for Military History and a member of the Editorial the Royal Air Force Air Power Review. He is also a member of the British Commission for Military History and serves on the Committee of the Royal Air Force Historical Society and the Research and Education Board of the Royal Air Force Museum. He is the historical advisor to the recently opened Bomber Command Memorial and is a trustee of two charities.

He was educated at King Edward’s School, Bath, and is a graduate of Warwick University [BA (Hons) History] and Kings College London [MA(Hons) War Studies]. He was curator of documents at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, before joining the Air Historical Branch as a researcher in 1984, and then serving successively as a Historian and the Deputy Head before being appointed as Head of the Air Historical Branch in 1996. He is the fi rst person to hold that post without having previous commissioned military service.

He was appointed as one of the three founding Co-Directors of the RAF Centre for Air Power Studies when it was fi rst established in 2007. He has written widely on the history of the RAF and air power, and has edited two book series related to the fi eld. He has also lectured on air power and related topics to military and civilian audiences on four continents, including Military Colleges in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Norway and Kuwait. Major General H. Hüseyin Demirarslan Director of Personnel Department in Turkish Air Force

Speaker in the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service “Road to Independence: Turkish Air Force”

Maj. Gen. Hasan Huseyin DEMIRARSLAN was born in 1962 in Canakkale. After completing high school education in Canakkale, he graduated from Turkish Air Force Academy in 1982. Upon graduating from 2nd Main Jet Base (MJB) Flight Training School as fi ghter pilot in 1983, he was assigned to 5th MJB, Merzifon, where he served as fi ghter pilot till 1989. In 1992, he was assigned to Pilot Training Base as an instructor pilot for 3 years. He had a master degree from USA Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in Ops. Research in 1992. After completing F-16 training in 1993, he was assigned to 9th MJB, BALIKESIR as F-16 fi ghter pilot. He attended Air Staff College in 1995 and graduated in 1997. He served at 4th MJB as Operations Section Head in 1998 and at Turkish Air Force (TURAF) Headquarters Personel Division as Assignment Project Offi cer in 1999. He then assigned to 4th MJB again as 143th Sq. Commander and served for 1 year. Between 2000 and 2003 he served as NATO Turkish Military Representative Deputy Air Planning Offi cer in Belgium. He served at TURAF Headquarters again between 2003 and 2004 as Excercises Branch Head, studied at Air War College in 2004 and assigned to 3rd MJB as Operations Commander for one year. Then he served as Secretary General of TURAF in 2005 and promoted to Brigadier General in 2006 and assigned to Chief of Plans and Programs Division. Between 2007 and 2009 he was the Turkish Military Attaché to USA, then he became the Commander of the 9th MJB, Balikesir in 2009. In 2010, he was promoted to Major General and served as the 2nd MJB, pilot training base, Commander for two years. As of August 2012, Gen. DEMIRARSLAN assumed the duty of the Chief of Personnel of TURAF. He has more than 3500 hours fl ying time in different aircraft. Gen. DEMIRARSLAN is married to Mrs. Mehtap DEMIRARSLAN, has a daughter and a son. Major General Junichi Araki Director of General Affairs Department in Joint Staff

Speaker in the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service “The Struggling Pursuit for Independent Airpower Before and After the Pacifi c War”

Major Genral Junichi Araki was born in 1961. He graduated from National Defence Academy in 1983. As of 2013, Major General Araki is the current Director of General Affairs Department in Joint Staff.

SERVICE CAREER May 1986 2nd Air Wing 203 Fighter Sq Aug 1990 4th Air wing 21 Fighter Sq Apr 1992 USAFA exchange offi cer Jul 1995 8th Air Wing 304Fighter Sq Aug 1996 Air Staff Offi ce Sep 1997 Command and Staff Course May 1998 The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Dec 1999 Center of International Studies, Harvard University Aug 2000 Air Staff Offi ce Sep 2002 National Institute for Defense Studies Aug 2003 Chief, Manpower and Organization Section, Air Staff Offi ce Mar 2006 Hq, Southwestern Composite Air Division Jul 2007 Head, Operations Division, Air Staff Offi ce Mar 2009 Commander, 7th Air Wing Dec 2011 Commander, 1st Tactical Airlift Wing Mar 2013 Present Assignment Brigadier General Basilio Di Martino Technical Deputy Director of the Information Technology, Communications and Advanced Technologies Directorate of the General Secretariat of Defence Speaker in the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service “From Air Corps to Air Force: 1915-1923 The road to independence of the Italian Air Force”

General Inspector Basilio Di Martino was born in Roma in 1957. He entered the Air Force in 1975 as a cadet of the Air Force Academy. Having graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1981, he was then posted to the test centre (Reparto Sperimentale Volo) as a System Test Engineer dealing mostly with avionics and armament systems, having been qualifi ed as such through the General Duties Aerosystems Course at RAF Cranwell (UK) in 1982-1983. At the Tect Centre he held several positions, moving up to lieutenant colonel and technical director. In 1995 he was then assigned to the Air Staff Logistics Department, where he was involved with the Tornado and C-130J programs as well as with several avionics and electronic warfare projects. In 1997-1998 he attended the Air Warfare School and the Joint Staff College, where he served also as a tutor for one year. Having been assigned again at the Air Staff, he was promoted colonel in 2000 and until 2004 was in charge of the offi ce dealing with space and unmanned and remotely piloted systems. From 2004 to 2011 he was at the Logistic Command, in the aircraft maintenance and support division, being responsible for some aircraft fl eets as well as avionics and armament systems. Brigadier General in 2011, he attended the Defence High Studies Institute and since 2012 holds his current assignment as Technical Deputy Director of the Information Technology, Communications and Advanced Technologies Directorate of the General Secretariat of Defence. General Inspector in 2013, beside a degree in Electronic Engineering, he has a degree in Political Sciences and a Master in Global Strategy and Security. He is a keen amateur historian and has published many articles and several books about the history of the Italian Air Force and the history of the Great War. He is married and has two sons. Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail, (Ret) Air Power Strategist, Author of “Great Air Battles of Pakistan Air Force” Speaker in the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service “How Air Power Transformed into an Independent Service and Contemporary Challenges to its Independence”

I was commissioned as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force in 1975, while also earning a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautics. For the fi rst twenty years of service, I performed fl ying duties on fi ghter and trainer aircraft; this initial phase of service culminated in command of a fi ghter Squadron and a fi ghter Wing.

Subsequently, assignments came to be diversifi ed and were related to operational planning, organisational management, administration, academic research, projects oversight and human resource management. Some of these varied staff and command assignments included the posts of Director of Operations at Air Headquarters, Deputy Commandant Air War College and Base Commander of a fi ghter base.

During mid-service, I underwent a course at the Air War College, completing a Master’s degree in War Studies. Later, another course at the National Defence College culminated in a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies. I was afforded the opportunity to undertake study tours of training institutions and industrial-military complexes, attend courses and conducted evaluation studies in , Denmark, , Germany, Italy, Laos, Oman, Poland, Qatar, South Africa, Sweden, , USA and Zimbabwe. Additionally, holiday visits to India, , , Lebanon, , Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and UK have helped gain a kaleidoscopic perspective of these countries’ militaries, as well as the people and places. After retirement from the PAF in 2005, I have been writing defence related articles in various local and international magazines. My book, ‘Great Air Battles of Pakistan Air Force’ was published in 2005. Another book, ‘Indo-Pak Air War 1971’ is expected to be published shortly. I am on the visiting faculty of the PAF Air War College since the last fi ve years. During the current year, I have been on the panel of United States Naval Postgraduate School for seminars and workshops on regional security. I was a participant in two of their recent workshops on ‘Confl ict Escalation Dynamics in South Asia’ and ‘Utility of Tactical Nuclear Weapons’. Colonel Oscar Luis Aranda Durañona, Argentine Air Force (Ret) Director of Historical Studies of the Argentine Air Force. Speaker in the 3rd Session How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service “How Argentine Air Power Has Become An Independent Service in 1945: Domestic Needs, Foreigner Infl uences”

Military Aviator in fi ghter specialty, Veteran of Malvinas War, Diploma in Staff (Air War College AAF), Di-ploma in Air and Space Systems (Aeronautical University Institute), Graduate and doctoral student in History (University of El Salvador).

Between 1961 and 1992, he fl ew 5,000 hours, almost all in fi ghters’ planes. Highlights posts: Chief of VI Air Brigade (1990-1991); Air Attached to Argentine Embassy in France, Belgium, Holland and Israel (1988-1989); Chief of Air Defense Sector (Malvinas Islands) during South Atlantic confl ict in 1982.

Since October 2000, serves as Director of Historical Studies of the Argentina Air Force. Is member of the Ar-gentina Academy of History, of the Institute of Argentine Military History, also is member corresponding of the Academy of Aeronautical History of Uruguay and Group of Military History of the Argentine National Academy of History.

Books he authored He has published two (2) fi ctional novels. Three (3) biographies. One (1) doctrinal essay. Co-authored three (3) books about Argentina Air Force history. Last work, 2012: The fl ight of the Condor, 1912-2012; commemora-tive book of 100 years of Argentina Military Aviation. Decorations National Congress for the participation in Malvinas war. Order of Merit from the Government of France. Professor Yücel Altunbaşak President of The Scientifi c and Technological Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Keynote Speaker of the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power “The Contribution of Space, Aviation and R&D Studies to Technological Development”

Born in Kayseri in 1971, Professor Altunbaşak graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, in 1992. After that, he studied at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, New York, where he received his MS and PhD degrees.

In 1996, while employed at Hewlett-Packard’s Palo Alto Laboratories in Silicon Valley, California, as a research engineer, he was appointed as a consultant assistant professor at Stanford University. After three years in Silicon Valley, he returned to academic life as assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he received his full-professorship in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, he served as the Rector of TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey. Since August 2011, he is serving as the 9th and current President of The Scientifi c and Technological Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).

Professor Altunbaşak has supervised 19 PhD students and is author of more than 190 papers and 50 patents/patent applications. In addition to his academic work, Professor Altunbaşak has continuously worked in collaboration with industry. He licensed and successfully prototyped a MPEG and processing device for a satellite and cable TV company. He initiated and was the driving force behind an image processing technology called ‘Pixellence’, which received the Special Jury Award of the Turkish Industry and Business Association, while working as a senior advisor to the company Vestel.

Professor Altunbaşak has received numerous awards and memberships, and also he has served as editor of several leading research journals and chaired many industrial associations. Major General Khalid Abdulla Mubarak Al Bu- ainnain Al Mazrouei Chairman of Baynuna Group for Companies Management, Formal UAE Air Force and Air Defence Commander

Chairman of the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power

General Khalid undertook various positions and posts along 32 years career in UAE Air Force and Air Defense (AFAD), which led him to take the position of UAE AFAD Commander General Khalid participated in both Gulf Wars.

In addition to the key posts he commanded, Gen. Khalid directs, manages, lead Multi-Billion programs for UAE government in the following: - Aircraft/ Systems Acquisition Programs (France, USA, Russia.....) - Multi-Nations New Research and Development Unifi ed Projects (Eastern-Western Companies, Multi-European Companies). - Mega programs in System Integration and System Engineering. - Communication Program (Airborne and Land Based Secured Network Systems) - Advance Information Technology and IT Security Program. - Remote Sensing, Space Program and Command and Control Program. - Creation and Development of fi rst R&D Faculties in UAE. - Creation and Development of First Advanced Flight Test Centres in UAE. - Creation and Development of First Advanced Digital war gaming and simulation centres in UAE. - Creation and Development of First Advanced Air War Centres in UAE. - Support UAE Academic Institutions/ Universities in Applied Research Program. - Financing, Controlling and Managing and Financial Engineering of National and Multi-National Mega Projects. General Khalid possesses large experience and knowledge, all of which provided an added value in his managing, organizing, and controlling UAE major and Mega programs. He acted as a strong contributor in the build up and consolidation of excellent relationships between the worldwide industrial fi gures and the UAE higher authorities through his worldwide network connection. He demonstrated as well as a strong leadership, Visionary and a wise team leader who acted with competence and wisdom as: • Program Director and Main Negotiator of contracts from Technical, Financial, and Legal as well as National strategic contractual aspects like Offset and Development Program. • Defi ning the requirements, concept defi nition, defi ning the overall Concept of Operation, Defi ning the System Engineering and bringing the right solutions based on the Wide and wise vision he possesses.

General Khalid has become a well- known speaker for National as well as Multi- National Seminars, Conferences and Exhibitions and has gained innovative concepts and system solution and approach in addition of his participation at organizing of Regional and International Events, Seminars and Conferences in UAE and he is Chairing one of well established Regional Think-Tank Institute for Defense and Security research and Study.

General Khalid has received 25 awards and merits nationally, regionally and internationally for his competence, integrity and wide spectrum of knowledge, many from the industrialized Western nations who know him and consider him a person of unique quality.

Currently, General Khalid is the Chairman of the board for his owned number of companies focused mainly on business and Advanced Technology Development and General Trading called Baynuna Group for Companies Management. And have a Joint Venture Company with well recognized Companies, like French Dassulte Aviation, Italian Electronica, and South African Denel Dynamic, Beside, General Khalid is involved with Local and International recognized Companies as a Senior Advisor and a Member of their Advisory Board. Lieutenant General Joachim Wundrak Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre Commander, German Air Force Air Operations Command Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem Speaker in the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power “NATO Air Power - Quo vadis? ”

Joachim Wundrak, Lieutenant General, DEU AF, Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany; Commander, German Air Force Air Operations Command, Kalkar, Germany; Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem, Uedem, Germany; Lieutenant General Wundrak holds a triple- hatted position at Kalkar/Uedem, Germany.

As Commander, German Air Force Air Operations Command, he is responsible for a unique German nucleus of staff that has the capability to execute operational planning as well as command and control of Air Force Operations at the tactical and operational levels.

As Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre at Uedem, he is responsible for planning, directing, tasking and coordinating air operations of allocated forces and NATO Integrated Air Defence assets.

As Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Lieutenant General Wundrak supports the JAPCC Director as the Joint Air Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Transformation in order to facilitate Joint Air Power Transformation at the strategic level.

Furthermore, Lieutenant General Wundrak has administrative control over the National Air Policing Centre and the Space Situational Awareness Centre.

Lieutenant General Wundrak entered the Air Force in 1974. He trained in Ground Defence before joining the ranks as a career pilot. Following numerous postings in the fl ying community, to include Commander, Air Transport Wing 62 in Wunstorf, he was appointed to Branch Chief, and later, Deputy Chief of Staff at the Federal Ministry of Defence until 2006.

From 2006 to 2008 Lieutenant General Wundrak was assigned as Deputy Director, European Air Group at High Wycombe, UK followed by two tours in operations as Chief of Staff, German EUFOR contingent and Deputy Chief of Staff, Air ISAF. He was the Deputy Commander German Air Force Command from July 2009 until he assumed command at Kalkar/Uedem in April 2012.

Lieutenant General Wundrak logged more than 3,000 fl ight hours in multiple aircraft such as the B-33, B-90, Do 28, Transall C-160 and UH-1D Helicopter.

He was awarded the German Armed Forces Silver Cross of Honour and the EUFOR Service Medal.

Lieutenant General Wundrak is married and has two children.

MILITARY CAREER Oct 1974 Enlistment in the , basic military training; German Air Force (GAF) Training Regiment 2, Budel / Netherlands 1975 Ground defense serviceman / Air defense gunner / Section Leader, GAF Training Regiment 2, Budel / Netherlands 1975 – 1976 Offi cer training at the GAF Offi cer School, Neubiberg 1976 – 1980 Studies in Electrical Engineering; Bundeswehr University, Munich 1980 – 1982 Transport aircraft pilot training; GAF Offi cer School, Fürstenfeldbruck; Air Transport Wing 62, Bremen and Wunstorf 1982 – 1985 Do 28 transport aircraft pilot; Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf 1985 – 1986 Chief Instructor, Offi cers’ Course for Line Offi cer Candidates; GAF Offi cer School, Furstenfeldbruck 1986 – 1988 Transall transport aircraft pilot; Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf 1988 – 1990 Participant in the 33rd General Staff Offi cers’ Course of the GAF; Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg 1990 – 1992 Section Chief at the German Air Transport Command (GATCOM); GATCOM A3a, Münster 1992 – 1994 Squadron Commander; Air Transport Wing 63, Rendsburg 1994 – 1995 Assistant Branch Chief at the Federal Ministry of Defense (FMOD); FMOD Air Staff III 3, Bonn 1996 – 1998 Executive Offi cer of the Chief of Staff, German Air Force; FMOD, Bonn 1998 – 2000 Commander; Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf 2000 – 2002 German Liaison Offi cer; Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood / 2002 – 2004 Branch Chief at the Federal Ministry of Defense; FMOD Air Staff III 5, Bonn 2004 – 2006 Deputy Chief of Staff at the Federal Ministry of Defense; FMOD Armed Forces Staff V, Bonn 2006 – 2008 Deputy Director European Air Group; High Wycombe / United Kingdom 2008 – 2009 01 Sep 2008 – 31 Mar 2009: Chief of Staff / Commander, German Contingent EUFOR; Sarajevo / Butmir 2009 – 2012 Deputy Commander, German Air Force Command 2011 21.02.2011 – 07.12.2011 Deputy Chief of Staff Air ISAF Joint Command; Kabul / Afghanistan April 2012 Commander, German Air Force Air Operations Command, Kalkar / Germany (until 30.06.2013) Commander, German Air Operations Command, Kalkar / Germany (since 01.07.2013) Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem, Uedem / Germany Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar / Germany PROMOTIONS Brigadier General 01 Apr 2004 Major General 01 Jul 2009 Lieutenant General 01 Apr 2012

MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Silver Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr EUFOR Service Medal ISAF Service Medal

FLYING HOURS (FH): More than 3,000 FH on the B-33, B-90, Do 28, Transall C-160 and Bell UH-1D aircraft types Associate Professor Jong Kun Choi Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Yonsei University Speaker in the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power “Between Autonomy and Dependence: Role of Think Tank and R&D Institutions in South Korea’s Air and Space Power”

Jong Kun Choi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Yonsei University. He is also Center Director of Security Strategy for Aerospace Strategy and Technology Institute at Yonsei University. He manages Korea’s oldest Air and Space Power Conference as Chair of the Program and serves as member of the Advisory Board of the Republic Korea’s Air Force for jet fi ghter acquisition and development. His offi cial homepage is at http://www.jongkunchoi.com.

He is member of the advisory council on the 6 Party Talks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and Standing Member of Inter-Korean Cooperation Committee for Incheon Metropolitan City. He is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria from 2011 and Research Associate for East Asian Peace project at the Department of Peace Research at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Professor Choi regularly appears as a commentator of Northeast Asian security matters for CNN, Al Jazeera, CCTV, KBS and NHK. He also writes monthly column for Kyunghyang Daily and Defense 21 Plus, South Korea’s leading monthly magazine for defense issues. He also frequently contributes to Global Times of China. Professor Choi specializes in International Relations theories, Northeast Asian security, political psychology and public opinions on national identity and foreign policy attitudes. His academic articles have so far appeared in International Security, Global Asia, Asian Perspective, Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, Korea and World Politics, Korean Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia Pacifi c and Korean Journal of International Studies.

Before joining Yonsei University, Dr. Choi was Assistant Professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul (2008-2009), Brain Korea 21 Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Yonsei University (2006- 2008), Research Associate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (2001-2006) and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Since 2008, he has been serving as a member of the editorial committee for Asian Perspective. Dr. Choi received his Ph.D from the Department of Political Science, the Ohio State University, in 2006 and his MA in Political Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 2000, and his BA in Political Science from the University Of Rochester, NY in 1998. Dr. Sanu Kainikara Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air Force at the Air Power Development Centre

Speaker in the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power

Sanu Kainikara is the RAAF’s Air Power Strategist at the Air Power Development Centre.

He is a former fi ghter pilot of the Indian Air Force (IAF) who retired voluntarily as a Group Captain after 21 years of commissioned service. He has vast operational fl ying experience in a number of modern fi ghter aircraft and has fl own over 4,000 hours on fi ghter aircraft. He is operational on the MiG-21,-23,-25,-27, and MiG- 29 and has also fl own the Jaguar and Hunter aircraft. Dr Kainikara is a Qualifi ed Flying Instructor (A2), a graduate and Directing Staff of the Fighter Weapons School and was the Commanding Offi cer of an Operational fi ghter squadron.

Sanu was decorated is the recipient of the Air Force Cross and two Commendations from the IAF Chief of Air Staff. He has also received the Royal Australian Air Force Chief of Air Force’s Commendation.

After leaving active duty with the Indian Air Force he worked for four years as the senior analyst of a US Training Team in the Middle East, specialising in fi ghter operations, weapons and tactics, before migrating to Australia. He has presented papers at a number of international conferences and published papers on national security, strategy and air power in various international professional journals. He is the author of ten books: Papers on Air Power (2006), Pathways to Victory (2007), Red Air: Politics in Russian Air Power (2007), Australian Security in the Asian Century (2008) A Fresh Look at Air Power Doctrine (2008), Seven Perennial Challenges to Air Forces (2009), The Art of Air Power: Sun Tzu Revisited (2010), At the Critical Juncture (2011), Essays on Air Power (2012), The Bolt from the Blue (2013) and From Indus to Independence Volume I (2013). He is the contributing editor of the book Friends in High Places (2009). He has taught Aerospace Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Fellow at University of New South Wales in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Kainikara is a graduate of the Indian National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and the College of Air Warfare. He holds two Bachelors degrees (Strategic Studies and Aerospace Engineering) and a Master of Science in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras. His PhD in International Politics was awarded by the University of Adelaide. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies on the topic of the Law of Armed Confl ict and Military Strategy at the ANU. Dr. Brad Gladman Strategic Analyst of Royal Canadian Air Force at the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre

Speaker in the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power “Linking Strategy to Operations Using Air Power Knowledge Development as a Catalyst”

Dr. Brad Gladman served as a pilot in the Canadian Forces before completing Bachelor (history) and Master of Arts (history of air power and intelligence during WW II) degrees at the University of Calgary. In 2001, Brad Gladman received a PhD in military history from the University College London in 2001. His PhD thesis dealt with intelligence and Anglo-American air support in the North African campaigns during WW II. This work was published recently by Palgrave Macmillan as Intelligence and Anglo-American Air Support in World War Two: The Western Desert and Tunisia 1940-43 (2009). After returning to Canada in 2001, Dr. Gladman taught a broad range of courses at University of Calgary, including the history of World War Two, Espionage and the State, as well as a number of war and society courses from the Medieval period through to the Nuclear Age. Dr. Gladman has also taught courses on Canadian Military History and the History of Science and Technology for the Royal Military College of Canada, and has guest lectured at the United States Air Force Academy. His other recent publications include articles on defence and security matters for the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Intelligence and National Security, Canadian Military History Journal, as well as a book chapter in Turning Points in Air Power History.

Dr. Gladman joined the Department of National Defence 2003, his initial posting being with the Directorate of Defence Analysis. In early 2005, Dr. Gladman was named the defence academic representative on Chief of the Action Team 1, whose mandate was to conduct a detailed analysis of the Command and Control of the Canadian Forces, and to recommend changes. One of those changes was the establishment of Canada Command, where Dr. Gladman worked as a strategic analyst. As a result of the request from the former Deputy Commander of NORAD, Dr. Gladman was posted to Colorado Springs where he was the Team Leader for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Operational Research and Analysis team. While there he conducted an historical analysis of the Canada-US Strategic Defence Relationship, a study undertaken with the sponsorship of the NORAD Deputy Commander and the Commander of Canada Command to provide a contextual backdrop for ongoing discussions on the evolution of the Canada-US military-to-military relationship. Dr. Gladman now provides analytical support for the Royal Canadian Air Force at the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre. Dr. Rebecca Grant President of IRIS Independent Research, Director of the Washington Security Forum

Speaker in the 4th Session The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To Air And Space Power “Four Technologies for Future Air Warfare”

Dr. Rebecca Grant is President of IRIS Independent Research, a public-policy research organization in Washington, DC. She is also a director of the Washington Security Forum, a new non-profi t encouraging research and discussion on how national security connects to advanced science and technology topics, including cyberspace, airpower, space, and energy resources. Dr. Grant earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, then worked for RAND and the offi ces of the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. She founded IRIS Independent Research, performing work on strategic planning for aerospace and government clients. Recent projects include analysis of Tier 1 suppliers in the defense industrial base for the US Air Force (Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition), assessment of shaping and maritime infl uence for the US Navy (Fleet Forces Command), and evaluation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) recapitalization for industry clients. She is the author of major classifi ed reports for the USAF on subjects including Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Anaconda and Operation Iraqi Freedom. For the Navy, she wrote Battle-Tested: Carrier Aviation in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dr. Grant writes regularly for Air Force Magazine and briefed with Lt Gen Burt Field (USAF A3/5) on long range strike at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in February 2014. She served from 2008 to 2011 as the founding Director of AFA’s Mitchell Institute. She is a frequent guest speaker on airpower at venues ranging from Wall Street to active-duty Air Force units. She has also appeared on TV as an expert on airpower for ABC’s This Week in Defense with Vago Muradian, the Discovery Channel’s Top Ten Military Machines, the History Channel, the Military Channel and the Smithsonian. She resides in the Washington, DC area with her husband, her young daughter, her motorcycle and a Tennessee Walking Horse named Red. Professor Banu Onaral H.H.Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Founding Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems.

Keynote Speaker of the 5th Session Air Power And Society “Air and Space Power as Drivers of Civilian Innovation and Economic Development”

Banu Onaral is H. H. Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. She received her BS and MS in electrical engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1973 and 1974 respectively and earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Dr. Onaral joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute at Drexel University in 1981. Starting in 1995, she led the strategic planning to transform the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute into a university-level interdisciplinary school. Since 1997, she has served as the Founding Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems.

Academic Focus and Leadership Her academic focus both in research and teaching is centered on information engineering with special emphasis on complex systems, biomedical signal processing in ultrasound and optics and functional optical brain imaging. She has led major research and development projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Offi ce of Naval Research (ONR), DARPA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). She supervised a large number of graduate students to degree completion and has an extensive publication record in biomedical signals and systems. She founded several laboratories throughout her career: the most recent is the CONQUER (Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental Research) CollabOrative established in Fall 2008 as an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional and international resource dedicated to the study of brain activation, development and deployment of optical brain imaging technologies in human performance, healthcare, mental health and learning with research and development partners in US and overseas, including China, Israel, Spain and Turkey.

National Honors, Awards and Services She is the recipient of a number of faculty excellence awards including the 1990 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award of Drexel University, the EDUCOM Best educational Software award and the NSF Faculty Achievement Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Founding Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She served on the inaugural Board of the AIMBE as publications chair and as Chair of the Academic Council. Dr. Onaral’s professional services include chair and membership on advisory boards and strategic planning bodies of several universities and funding agencies, including service on the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Advisory Board, and on the proposal review panels and study sections. Her professional responsibilities have included service on the Editorial Board of journals and the CRC Biomedical Engineering Handbook as Section Editor for Biomedical Signal Analysis. She served as President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the largest member-based biomedical engineering society in the world. Earlier, she had served as Vice-President of Conferences of IEEE- EMBS. She has been active in conference leadership; notably, she organized and chaired the 1990 Annual International Conference of the EMBS and Co- Chaired the 2004 Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering.

Translational Research and Health Innovations Leadership – University Dr. Onaral’s translational research efforts for rapid commercialization of biomedical technologies developed at Drexel and its partner institutions have resulted in the creation of the Translational Research in Biomedical Technologies program. This initiative brings together academic technology developers with entrepreneurs, regional economic development agencies, local legal, business and investment communities. Under her leadership, the program has been awarded $10 million from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation toward the creation of the $20 million Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership Endowment that serves all faculty and researchers at Drexel University. She has participated in the development of the Philadelphia Pediatric Device Consortium sponsored in part by FDA and led by the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania.

Regional Health Innovation Partnership She led the creation of the regional Health Innovation Partnership - Philadelphia Region Roadmap modeled on the ‘Coulter Translational Research Partnership’ approach to commercialize university innovations. The initiative has been sponsored by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and aims to mobilize the academic grassroots and to pool regional resources and assets to bring novel solutions to healthcare.

International Academic and Health Innovation Partnerships She has actively forged international academic partnerships with institutions in China, Israel, Italy, Spain and Turkey. In 2000, she led the fi rst Eisenhower Foundation sponsored delegation of biomedical engineers to China and helped organize the fi rst Asia-Pacifi c Biomedical Engineering Conference in Hangzhou. She has been instrumental in the organization of international biomedical engineering conferences in China including the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology in Shanghai, China, in 2005 and the dual-doctoral degree in Neuroengineering with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has facilitated the development of translational research partnership with the Institute for Drug Research of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She is spearheading the creation of similar partnerships with the Med-X Research Institute / School of Biomedical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China and INOVITA, Istanbul health innovation platform. In Turkey, she participated in the strategic planning team charged with the creation of Sabancı University established in 1998 in Istanbul, Turkey and served on its Board of Trustees. Sabancı University is top ranked in innovation and entrepreneurship in Turkey. She served as the President of the Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association. She serves as a senior advisor to Teknopark Istanbul, the $4B science, technology and innovation hub under development in Turkey. Her responsibility areas center on health and human systems in aerospace. She also serves on the EBILTEM Technology Transfer Advisory of Ege University, Izmir, and the advisory board of DEpark, the Dokuz Eylul University Health Technopark. She has participated as the US lead or liaison in regional health innovation initiatives, namely INOVIZ, INOVAnkara and INOVITA in Izmir, Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, respectively. Professor Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney Professor of International Relations and Head of International Relations Department at Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul

Chairlady of the 5th Session Air Power And Society

Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney is professor of international relations and head of international relations department at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. Prof. Güney is security and nuclear energy fellow at the Wise Men Center for Strategic Studies (BILGESAM). She has extensively published on Middle East, security studies, American foreign and security policies, EU, NATO and arms control and disarmament issues. She is the member of IISS. Some of her latest publications include;

‘Turkish Nuclear Security after Iranian Nuclearization’, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 33/3, December 2012.

‘The current Stalemate on the Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Is there a way out of this Impasse?’, Ortadoğu Analiz Dergisi, Orsam, Mart 2013, Vol.5, No. 51, pp. 29-36.

‘The US-Russian Stand in the Field of Nuclera Proliferation: Cooperation or Confl ict?’, in Sergey K. Oznobishchev and Alexander I. Nikitin (eds), Arms Control: Does it Have a Future?, Rossben Publishers, Moscow, 2013, pp. 152- 170.

‘Is it About Time to Rethink American Extended Deterrence?’, International Relations and Diplomacy, David Publishing, January 2013, Vol. 2, No.1, pp.1-11. Brigadier General Dr. Zenon Smutniak, Polish Air Force (Ret) Visiting Professor at National Defense University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland

Speaker in the 5th Session Air Power And Society “Are We Suffering From Tunnel Vision? Airpower As Seen By Airmen”

Brigadier General Dr. Zenon Smutniak was born in 1950 in Szczebrzeszyn. He graduated from Polish Air force Academy in 1975 and received his Ph.D from National Defense University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland in 2001. Since 2008, he has lectured as Visiting Professor at National Defense University. He speaks Russian and English.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1.02 2008- to date: Visiting Professor, National Defense University, Warsaw- Rembertow, Poland 2006-31.01.2008: Deputy Commandant-Rector of the National Defense University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland 2003-2006: Deputy Commander of the NATO Combined Air Operations Center, Finderup,Denmark 2000/2003: Assistant Air Force Commander, Warsaw, Poland 2000-2002: Commander-Rector of the Polish Air Force Academy; Deblin, Poland 1985-2000: SU-22 jet aircraft pilot; posts held: Squadron Commander, Deputy Regiment Commander, Regiment Commander, Deputy Division Commander, Division Commander, Brigade Commander 1975-1985: TS-11jet aircraft instructor pilot of the Polish Air Force Academy, Radom, Poland EDUCATION, COURSES 2004 NATO Defense Policy Course; Oberammergau, Germany 2003 NATO Planning Course, Oberammergau, Germany 2001 PhD (Military Studies); National Defense University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland 1997 english leanguage course, CFB Borden, Canada 1992-1993 Postgraduate Studies; National Defense University, Warsaw- Rembertow, Poland 1981 -1984 Military Aviation Academy; Monino, USSR 1971-1975 Engineer, Polish Air Force Academy; Deblin, Poland 1964-1969 Electrical Technical School, Zamosc, Poland

AREAS OF EXPERTISE - Operational and tactical use of aviation - Logistical and technical support of air operations - The use of aviation in state security operations - Improving the Nation Security System - Informatization of the decision making process in the national security management - Crisis Management Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur, Indian Air Force (Ret) Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi

Speaker in the 5th Session Air Power And Society “Air Power: Societal Tool of a Higher Calling”

Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur, retired from the Indian Air Force after 36 years of distinguished service. He is a Cat A fl ying instructor, an Experimental Test Pilot from EPNER (French Test Pilots School), a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College, USA and a post graduate in Defence and Strategic Studies from Madras University. He has commanded a frontline Helicopter Unit and two Flying Bases, was the Contingent Commander of the fi rst Indian Air Force Mission in and has been Head of Training (Air) at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.

As Asst Chief of Air Staff, AVM Bahadur was the operational head of Transport and Helicopter Operations of the Indian Air Force for two and a half years. His last assignment was as Asst Chief of Integrated Defence Staff in-charge of perspective planning and force structure of the Indian Armed Forces.

AVM Manmohan Bahadur is currently a Distinguished fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. He has been awarded the (Air Force Medal) by the for distinguished service. He writes for leading national newspapers and professional journals and is presently working on his book ‘Coercion and Air Power’. Colonel Professor Mark K. Wells Permanent Professor and Head Department of History, United States Air Force Academy

Speaker in the 5th Session Air Power And Society “Tribal Warfare: The Society of Modern Airmen”

Colonel Mark K. Wells is Permanent Professor and Head of the Department of History, Dean of the Faculty, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. At the Academy he leads a 31-person academic department teaching 40 different history courses to over 3,000 cadets annually. As Chairman of the Humanities Division, he represents fi ve academic departments: English and Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, History, Military Strategic Studies, and Philosophy. The son of a career Air Force offi cer, Colonel Wells is a 1975 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy.

He also holds an M.A. in History from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College, University of London. Following pilot training he served in a variety of fl ying and leadership assignments in the Strategic Air Command and the Air Training Command.

He was an aircraft commander in the KC-135 Strato-tanker with the 92nd Air Refueling Squadron. Subsequently he spent more than 5 years fl ying the T-37 as an instructor pilot and later as a fl ight commander in Pilot Instructor Training. His teaching experiences include three years as an Assistant Professor of Military History at the Air Force Academy and two years part-time at the University of Maryland. Shortly after attending the Air Command and Staff College, he served two years as a Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, where he participated fi rst-hand in NATO’s evolving strategy and conventional force structure changes.

He graduated from the Army War College in 1993. Before assuming his current position, Colonel Wells served as the Department of History’s Deputy Head and Senior Military Professor. He completed a 2-year sabbatical at the headquarters of U.S. European Command, in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2007 and is currently active as an Instructor Pilot with the 557th Flying Training Squadron. His interests include NATO, military history, airpower, and the human dimension of combat.

Colonel Wells has authored several entries in encyclopedias. He has also published articles in a number of periodicals, including Military Review, Airpower Journal, Living History, and Air Classics. Colonel Wells’ fi rst book, Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War, won the Society for Military History’s 1997 Distinguished Book Award. It has also been selected twice for the Air Force Chief of Staff’s recommended reading list for all serving offi cers. He edited a second book, Airpower: Promise and Reality, published in 2002, and subsequently assumed the senior editorial responsibilities for the Academy’s Military History Symposium series. The fi rst book to be published under his leadership was Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy. Currently on a one-semester sabbatical at the U.S. Army War College, Colonel Wells is a command pilot with over 3,200 fl ying hours in the KC-135, T-37, T-3, T-41, T-52 and T-53.

He is married to the former Donna Carol Johnson of Niceville, Florida.

EDUCATION: 1975 B.S., History, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO 1981 Distinguished Graduate, Squadron Offi cer’s School, Maxwell AFB, AL 1983 M.A., History, Texas Tech University 1987 Distinguished Graduate, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL 1991 Air War College, correspondence 1992 Ph.D. in War Studies, King’s College, University of London 1993 U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA

ASSIGNMENTS: 1. July 1975 – Aug 1976; Student, Undergraduate Pilot Training, Craig AFB, AL 2. Aug 1976 – Jan 1977; Student KC-135 Combat Crew Training School, Castle AFB, CA 3. Feb 1977 – Dec 1979; Co-pilot and Aircraft Commander, 92nd Air Refueling Squadron, Fairchild AFB, WA 4. Jan 1980 – May 1982; Instructor Pilot, 35th Flying Training Squadron, Reese AFB, TX 5. May 1982 – May 1983; Chief, Learning Center Branch, 64th Student Squadron, Reese AFB, TX 6. June 1983 – June1986; Assistant Professor of History, USAF Academy, CO 7. July 1986 – July 1987; Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, AL 8. Aug 1987 – Aug 1988; Flight Commander, 559th Flying Training Squadron, Randolph AFB, TX 9. Aug 1988 – Aug 1989; Student, Ph.D. candidate, King’s College, University of London 10.Aug 1989 – Aug 1991; Military Asst., Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, SHAPE, Belgium 11.Aug 1991 – Aug 1992; Student, Ph.D. candidate, King’s College, University of London 12.Aug 1992 – Aug 1993; Student, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA 13.Aug 1993 – Feb 2000; Senior Military Professor and Deputy Head, Dept of History, USAFA 13. Feb 2000 – Jun 2005; Permanent Professor and Head, Dept of History, USAF Academy, CO 14. Jun 2005 – Jun 2007; Special Assistant to the Director, J-5, U.S. European Command; Assistant Political Advisor to the Commander 15. Jun 2007 – July 2013; Permanent Professor and Head, Dept of History, Division Chair, Humanities Division, USAF Academy, CO 16. Aug 2013 – Dec 2013; Visiting Professor, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA 17. Jan 2014 – present; Permanent Professor and Head, Dept of History, USAF Academy, CO

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS: Legion of Merit Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters Air Force Commendation Medal Colonel Gökhan Sönmezateş Head of Joint Personnel Recovery Branch, Chief of Joint Target Analysis Center

Speaker in the 5th Session Air Power And Society “The History of Turkish Air Force Rescue Operations”

Col. Gökhan Şahin SÖNMEZATEŞ was born in 1967 in Erzurum. After completing military high school education, he graduated from Turkish Air Force Academy in 1989.

Upon graduating from Army Infantry School, he followed Army Commando School, Navy Military SCUBA Diving School, Air Force Search and Rescue, and Military Free Fall School.

He also graduated from US Air Force Survival Instructor Course, with Open Ocean, Arctic, Desert, Tropic environment Survival Courses in 1996. He attended Air Staff College in 2000 and graduated in 2002.

He served as Commander of Combat Search and Rescue School untill 2007.

He posted NATO Joint Warfare Center-Norway for three years until 2010, and he attended almost 6 Steadfast series NATO exercises, and 2 ISAF exercises as a planner, and he was the main project offi cer of NATO JPR Doctrin. He was selected by NATO Standardization Agency as a chief of NATO Air Operation Supporting Working Group until 2012.

Then he assigned to TUR Air Force HQ as a Chief of Personnel Recovery Branch in Operation Division, currently he is in the same position plus as a head of Joint Target Analyzing Center as dual headed.

Col. SÖNMEZATEŞ is married to Mrs. Bilgehan Sönmezateş, has two daughters. Mr. Philip Handleman Aviation Author, President of Handleman Filmworks

Speaker in the 5th Session Air Power And Society “Depictions of Air Power in Western Art.”

Philip Handleman has been an active pilot for many years. He has owned and fl own antique aircraft of military lineage including World War II-era open-cockpit biplanes. He has also been a staunch advocate for aviation, having successfully initiated provisions in both the Michigan Aeronautics Code and federal aviation law that protect airport owners and users of the U.S. national airspace.

Mr. Handleman has written or edited twenty-two aviation books. Notable titles include Beyond the Horizon: Combat Aircraft of the Next Century (Motorbooks International/Airlife Publishing); Combat in the Sky: The Art of Air Warfare (Motorbooks International); Aviation: A History Through Art (Howell Press); and Air Combat Reader: Historic Feats and Aviation Legends, co-edited with Walter J. Boyne, (Fall River Press/Potomac Books/Brassey’s).

All of these books sold out their fi rst printings. One of these titles, Air Combat Reader, despite being aimed at a general readership, has been used as a college-level textbook and has been issued in a fourth edition. In 2012, it was handed out by the Air Force Association as the offi cial gift to the more than fi fty speakers at the organization’s major annual symposium and conference in Washington, D.C. The recipients of the book included the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force.

The author has had more than one hundred articles published in a wide array of publications. Mr. Handleman has often contributed to Vintage Airplane magazine, which is published by the second largest pilot organization in the U.S. with a membership of over 170,000. He frequently has book reviews in Aviation History magazine. Also, he has had guest editorials appear in such publications as the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. He has been repeatedly quoted as an aviation expert by Reuters.

Mr. Handleman is President of Handleman Filmworks which has produced award-winning public television documentaries. His production Remembering the Holocaust received an Emmy for best documentary from the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. His documentary about Vietnam-era MIAs/POWs, Our Missing in Action, received a First Place Award from the Michigan Sesquicentennial Film and Video Festival.

Additionally, Mr. Handleman’s still photography has been featured on U.S. postage stamps. The stamp commemorating the fi ftieth anniversary of the U.S. Air Force in 1997 showcased his photograph of the Thunderbirds air demonstration team performing its classic diamond formation. The stamp commemorating the fi ftieth anniversary of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2004 highlighted his photograph of the iconic Cadet Chapel at sunrise. The stamps had print runs of approximately 45 million and 60 million, respectively.

Mr. Handleman has served on the boards of about forty civic and cultural organizations including the National Advisory Committee of the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center of the American Red Cross and the Michigan chapter board of the Friends of the National Defense Forces. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Selfridge Base Community Council and the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Air Guard Historical Association which oversees the state’s largest military aircraft museum. Other organizations on whose boards he has served include the Detroit Historical Society, the Detroit Science Center, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Friends of the Detroit Public Library where he was also President.

In June 2002, Mr. Handleman initiated the legislative effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen which resulted in the Medal’s presentation nearly fi ve years later by the President and Speaker of the House in a ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda. The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum recognized Mr. Handleman with its Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997 and its Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award in 2005. For his contributions to aviation art and literature, Mr. Handleman received the Harriet Quimby Award from the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008. For his contributions to the preservation of America’s air and space heritage, Mr. Handleman received the Combs Gates Award from the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2010.

On September 14, 2013, Mr. Handleman testifi ed before the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force. In his prepared statement, he stressed the importance of the military-civilian relationship. He also pointed to the value of the Air National Guard and the imperative of preserving the American air power advantage.

Mr. Handleman graduated from Washington University and subsequently completed the Executive Academy at the University of Michigan’s Graduate School of Business Administration. He and his wife, Mary, divide their time between their home in Birmingham, Michigan and their private airport in the nearby countryside which contains one of the country’s largest private aviation libraries and aviation art collections. Dr. Sanu Kainikara Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air Force at the Air Power Development Centre

Closing Remarks of the Symposium International Symposium on the History of Air Warfare - ISAW 2014

Sanu Kainikara is the RAAF’s Air Power Strategist at the Air Power Development Centre.

He is a former fi ghter pilot of the Indian Air Force (IAF) who retired voluntarily as a Group Captain after 21 years of commissioned service. He has vast operational fl ying experience in a number of modern fi ghter aircraft and has fl own over 4,000 hours on fi ghter aircraft. He is operational on the MiG-21,-23,-25,-27, and MiG- 29 and has also fl own the Jaguar and Hunter aircraft. Dr Kainikara is a Qualifi ed Flying Instructor (A2), a graduate and Directing Staff of the Fighter Weapons School and was the Commanding Offi cer of an Operational fi ghter squadron.

Sanu was decorated is the recipient of the Air Force Cross and two Commendations from the IAF Chief of Air Staff. He has also received the Royal Australian Air Force Chief of Air Force’s Commendation.

After leaving active duty with the Indian Air Force he worked for four years as the senior analyst of a US Training Team in the Middle East, specialising in fi ghter operations, weapons and tactics, before migrating to Australia. He has presented papers at a number of international conferences and published papers on national security, strategy and air power in various international professional journals. He is the author of ten books: Papers on Air Power (2006), Pathways to Victory (2007), Red Air: Politics in Russian Air Power (2007), Australian Security in the Asian Century (2008) A Fresh Look at Air Power Doctrine (2008), Seven Perennial Challenges to Air Forces (2009), The Art of Air Power: Sun Tzu Revisited (2010), At the Critical Juncture (2011), Essays on Air Power (2012), The Bolt from the Blue (2013) and From Indus to Independence Volume I (2013). He is the contributing editor of the book Friends in High Places (2009). He has taught Aerospace Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Fellow at University of New South Wales in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Kainikara is a graduate of the Indian National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and the College of Air Warfare. He holds two Bachelors degrees (Strategic Studies and Aerospace Engineering) and a Master of Science in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras. His PhD in International Politics was awarded by the University of Adelaide. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies on the topic of the Law of Armed Confl ict and Military Strategy at the ANU. TURKISH AIR WAR COLLEGE

Turkish Air War College was established on 1 November 1937 as the air war college director in “Yıldız Palace” in order to train staff offi cers for duty of the command of the Turkish Air Force. Due to the Second World War, between 1941 and 1946 Air War College moved to Ankara and continued its activities. After the Second World War Air War College moved to Istanbul again and until 1975 training activities continued in the “Yıldız Palace”. In March 1949, Air War College was named Commander of the Air War College and moved to Yenilevent facilities in 1975.

The objectives of Air War College are thoroughly to have the ability to fi nd appropriate course of action, to reach proper decision making approach and implement the decisions effectively, to have the capacity of a command and staff offi cer who displays sound judgement and planning skills, are respectful to the rules of law, absorb the democratic values, act under the guidence of wisdom and science, and have vision.

The vision of Air War College is to train and educate in order to become an aviation and aerospace power competing with the age, which keeps basic values of the Turkish Air Force alive, trains highly-educated aviator manpower, adopts a contemporary management approach, possesses high technology and utilizes it effi ciently, is capable of conducting uninterrupted separate / joint / combined operations anywhere required by national interests and strengthens its superiority through national defense industry.