Air Force Chief of Staff Gen John P. Jumper Commander, Air Education and Training Command Gen Donald G. Cook http://www.af.mil Commander, Air University Lt Gen Donald A. Lamontagne Commander, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education Col Bobby J. Wilkes Editor http://www.aetc.randolph.af.mil Lt Col Scott G. Wierschke Associate Editors Dr. Doris Sartor Maj Donald R. Ferguson Professional Staff Marvin W. Bassett, Contributing Editor Larry Carter, Contributing Editor http://www.au.af.mil Mary J. Moore, Editorial Assistant Steven C. Garst, Director of Art and Production Daniel M. Armstrong, Illustrator L. Susan Fair, Illustrator Mary P. Ferguson, Prepress Production Manager Aerospace Power Chronicles Luetwinder T. Eaves, Managing Editor http://www.cadre.maxwell.af.mil The Aerospace Power Journal, published quarterly, is the professional flagship publication of the United States Air Force. It is designed to serve as an open forum for the presentation and stimulation of innova­ tive thinking on military doctrine, strategy, tactics, force structure, readiness, and other matters of na­ tional defense. The views and opinions expressed or implied in the Journal are those of the authors and should not be construed as carrying the official sanc­ tion of the Department of Defense, the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Air University, or other agencies or departments of the US government. Articles in this edition may be reproduced in whole or Visit Aerospace Power Journal on-line at in part without permission. If they are reproduced, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil the Aerospace Power Journal requests a courtesy line. or E-mail to [email protected] Summer 2002 Volume XVI, No. 2 AFRP 10-1 Prelaunch Notes . 5 Flight Lines The “Perception Transformation” . 6 Ricochets and Replies . 7 Features Kosovo and the Continuing SEAD Challenge . 8 Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth The “Red Team”: Forging a Well-Conceived Contingency Plan . 22 Col Timothy G. Malone, USAF Maj Reagan E. Schaupp, USAF Maintaining Friendly Skies: Rediscovering Theater Aerospace Defense . 34 Lt Col Lester W. Grau, USA, Retired Dr. Jacob W. Kipp Partnering for Hemispheric Security: A Combined Regional Operations Center in Brazil . 49 Lt Col Merrick E. Krause, USAF Focus: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ✪Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Dawn of a New Age? . 60 Col Robert E. Chapman II, USAF ✪Legal Implications of the Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicle . 74 Lt Col Anthony J. Lazarski, USAF PIREP ✪Future Missions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Exploring Outside the Box . 84 Maj Earl “Duke” Odom, USAF VORTICES ✪Future Employment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles . 86 1st Lt Jeff Mustin, USAF What’s So Special about Special Operations? Lessons from the War in Afghanistan . 98 Col John Jogerst, USAF Net Assessment Striving for Air Superiority: The Tactical Air Command in Vietnam . 105 Craig C. Hannah Reviewer: Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired Serenade of Suffering: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1968–1993 . 106 Richard J. Chasdi Reviewer: Lt Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, USN Clausewitz and Chaos: Friction in War and Military Policy . 106 Stephen J. Cimbala Reviewer: Col Eric Ash, USAF The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904–1940 . 107 Richard W. Harrison Reviewer: Richard R. Muller The Few: Summer 1940, the Battle of Britain . 108 Philip Kaplan and Richard Collier Reviewer: Lt Col Robert F. Tate, USAFR Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Secuirty . 108 Linda McFarland Reviewer: John H. Barnhill, PhD Bomber Harris: His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, the Wartime Chief of Bomber Command . 110 Henry Probert Reviewer: Dr. Tom Hughes Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man . 111 David F. Schmitz Reviewer: Dr. James R. W. Titus Black Cross, Red Star: The Air War over the Eastern Front, vol. 2, Resurgence . 112 Christer Bergström and Andrey Mikhalov Reviewer: Richard R. Muller My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings . 113 Tracy Sugarman Reviewer: Lt Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, USN Luftwaffe Colours, vol. 1, sec. 3, Jagdwaffe: Blitzkrieg and Sitzkrieg: Poland and France, 1939–1940 . 113 Eric Mombeek with J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek Reviewer: Lt Col Robert F. Tate, USAFR Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces . 114 Pavel Podvig, ed. Reviewer: Capt Gilles Van Nederveen, USAF, Retired Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign against Strategic Weapons Proliferation . 114 Henry D. Sokolski Reviewer: Lt Col Peter L. Hays, USAF Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics, and Airplanes . 116 Leon Bennett Reviewer: Col Eric Ash, USAF Devil Dogs: Fighting Marines of World War I . 117 George B. Clark Reviewer: Capt Rick A. Spyker, USAF Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight . 117 Carroll V. Glines Reviewer: Dr. David R. Mets American Volunteer Fighter Pilots in the RAF, 1937–43 . 119 Tony Holmes Reviewer: Brig Gen Philip D. Caine, USAF, Retired Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914–1945 . 119 Edward B. Westermann Reviewer: Maj Paul G. Niesen, USAF Matthew B. Ridgway: Soldier, Statesman, Scholar, Citizen . 120 George C. Mitchell Reviewer: Command Sgt Major James H. Clifford, USA NATO’s Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment . 121 Benjamin S. Lambeth Reviewer: Col Robert C. Owen, USAF, Retired Mission Debrief . 126 Aerospace Power Journal Board of Reviewers Prof. Tami Davis Biddle Dr. Tom Keaney Duke University School of Advanced International Studies Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF, Retired Johns Hopkins University Melbourne, Florida Prof. Theodore Kluz Lt Col Matthew Caffrey, USAFR USAF Air War College Operations Directorate Dr. Charles Krupnick Headquarters USAF US Army War College Brig Gen Phillip D. Caine, USAF, Retired Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth Monument, Colorado RAND Dr. Don D. Chipman Lt Col David MacIsaac, USAF, Retired USAF Squadron Officer College Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun Dr. Karl P. Magyar US Army War College Montgomery, Alabama Dr. Mark Clodfelter Col Edward Mann, USAF, Retired National War College Colorado Springs, Colorado Dr. James Corum Dr. Jerome V. Martin USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies Peru State College Dr. Conrad Crane Col Phillip Meilinger, USAF, Retired Strategic Studies Institute Science Applications International Corporation US Army War College Prof. John H. Morrow Jr. Dr. Dik A. Daso University of Georgia National Air and Space Museum Dr. Daniel Mortensen Smithsonian Institution USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Ed­ Dr. Lee Dowdy ucation Alabama State University Prof. James Mowbray Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired USAF Air War College USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies Dr. Karl Mueller Brig Gen (Sel) Charles Dunlap Jr., USAF RAND Staff Judge Advocate Dr. Richard R. Muller USAF Air Combat Command USAF Air Command and Staff College Dr. Stephen Fought Col Robert Owen, USAF, Retired USAF Air War College Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Col David M. Glanz, USA, Retired Dr. Reina J. Pennington Journal of Slavic Military Studies Norwich University Col Thomas E. Griffith, USAF Dr. James Smith USAF 39th Support Group USAF Institute for National Security Studies Incirlik, Turkey Col James Spencer, USAF Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr. USAF Academy Ohio State University Col Richard Szafranski, USAF, Retired Dr. Grant T. Hammond Toffler Associates Center for Strategy and Technology Air University Dr. James Titus USAF Academy Prof. Daniel Hughes USAF Air War College Col Mark Wells, USAF USAF Academy Dr. Thomas Hughes USAF Air War College Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell Lt Col Mark P. Jelonek, USAF Christianburg, Virginia Space Division Dr. Harold R. Winton USAF Weapons School USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies 4 APJ LT COL SCOTT G.WIERSCHKE,EDITOR A Fond Farewell A Note of Thanks . Early in the production of this issue of It is with sad but heartfelt appreciation that Aerospace Power Journal, Col Eric Ash, the (now APJ announces the retirement of Dr. Richard former) editor, was named commander and H. Kohn as a member of the Professional president of the Community College of the Journals Editorial Board. Former chief histo­ Air Force (CCAF) and had to leave the Jour­ rian for the United States Air Force and pro­ nal rather abruptly. Fortunately for the APJ fessor of history at the University of North staff—and the Air Force—he leaves behind a Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dr. Kohn is stepping strong and vital professional journal that is down from APJ after more than six years of faithful service and dedicated support in recognized as a major forum for the discussion order to concentrate on several projects and of aerospace power. This reputation makes it pending publications, including a book on easier to assemble journals in his absence, not presidential war leadership in American his- to mention the fact that he had already writ- tory. Dr. Kohn has made a great, positive im­ ten one last editorial for his successor (it fol­ pact on APJ and will truly be missed. lows these comments). In his three years as editor, Colonel Ash produced 11 editions of APJ, including several . and a Hearty Welcome! that focused on important Air Force issues Just as nature abhors a vacuum, seats on APJ’s such as leadership, aerospace integration, sup- editorial board cannot remain empty. Thus, port functions, and aerospace medicine. He ex­ APJ is pleased to announce the appointment panded the Journal’s reach to company grade of Dr. J. Douglas Beason, Colonel, USAF, re- officers by establishing the CGO Voices page on tired, to the Professional Journals Editorial APJ’s Web site and personally briefed every Air Board. Currently the deputy associate direc­ and Space Basic Course class that came tor for defense threat reduction at the Los through Air University during his tenure, giv­ Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Beason, ing each lieutenant his or her own copy of the while on active duty, served as commander of Journal.