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If they are reproduced, the Air Visit Air and Space Power Journal online and Space Power Journal requests a courtesy line. at http:// www.a i rpower.maxwell .af.m il. Inside cover.indd 2 8/4/06 9:41:26 AM Fall 2006 Volume XX, No. 3 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspective Interdependence: Key to Our Common Success . 4 Gen Tom Hobbins, USAF Focus Area Integrating Operations: Joint Air and Space Power . 12 Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals Features The Air Force’s New Ground War: Ensuring Projection of Air and Space Power through Expeditionary Security Operations . 41 Brig Gen Robert H. “Bob” Holmes, USAF Col Bradley D. Spacy, USAF Lt Col John M. Busch, USAF Lt Col Gregory J. Reese, USAF Counterinsurgency Airpower: Air-Ground Integration for the Long War . 55 Col Howard D. Belote, USAF Filling the Stealth Gap and Enhancing Global Strike Task Force Operations . 69 Maj Collin T. Ireton, USAF Space Power: An Ill-Suited Space Strategy . 77 CDR John J. Klein, USN Military Transformation: Ends, Ways, and Means . 85 Dr. Jack D. Kem, Colonel, USA, Retired Molecular Nanotechnology and National Security . 96 LCDR Thomas D. Vandermolen, USN Clausewitz and the Falkland Islands Air War . 111 Maj Rodolfo Pereyra, Uruguayan Air Force Departments Prelaunch Notes Book Reviews and Introduction of the Latest Chronicles Online Journal Articles 8 Ricochets and Replies . 9 The Merge Why Red Flag Is Obsolete . 13 Lt Col Rob Spalding, USAF Red Flag Still Matters—After All These Years . 16 Col Steven D. Carey, USAF Integration of Space-Based Combat Systems . 18 Cortney Konner Ronald Pope 2006-3 contents.indd 1 7/28/06 10:35:03 AM PIREPs Joint Airspace Management and Deconfliction: A Chance to Trade in a Stovepipe for Network-Centric Warfare . 26 Lt Col Alex Wathen, USAF, Retired CADRE’s Professional Education Opportunities for USAF, Joint, and Allied War Fighters . 35 Maj John Dierling, USAF Ira C. Eaker Award Winners . 40 Quick-Looks and NOTAMs The Air Force Needs New Glasses: Sensor Requirements for Urban Operations . 37 Lt Col David L. Robie, USAF New USAF Doctrine Publication: Air Force Doctrine Document 2-1.9, Targeting 53 Lt Col J. P. Hunerwadel, USAF, Retired A New Operational Assessment Paradigm: Splitting the Stoplights . 65 Maj Kirsten Messer, USAF Maj Shane Dougherty, USAF Revised USAF Doctrine Publication: Air Force Doctrine Document 2, Operations and Organization . 94 Lt Col D. Robert Poynor, USAF, Retired The Nature of Close Air Support in Low Intensity Conflict . 107 Lt Col Phil M. Haun, USAF Book Reviews The Battle for the Hague—1940: The First Great Airborne Operations . 120 Lt Col E. H. Brongers, translated by C. C. W. van Romondt Reviewer: Capt Gilles Van Nederveen, USAF, Retired Thunderchief: The Right Stuff and How Fighter Pilots Get It . 121 Don Henry Reviewer: Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944–45 . 121 John Nichol and Tony Rennell Reviewer: Lt Col Robert Tate, USAFR Franco: Soldier, Commander, Dictator . 123 Geoffrey Jensen Reviewer: Dr. Robert B. Kane Allied Fighter Aces of World War II: The Air Combat Tactics and Techniques of World War II . 123 Mike Spick Reviewer: Lt Col Willem M. Klumper, Royal Netherlands Air Force Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods . 124 H. John Poole Reviewer: Maj Paul Niesen, USAF Mission Debrief . 125 2006-3 contents.indd 2 7/28/06 10:35:03 AM Air and Space Power Journal Board of Reviewers Prof. Tami Davis Biddle Col Merrick E. Krause US Army War College Director, National Defense University Press Editor, Joint Force Quarterly Dr. Kendall K. Brown NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Col Chris J. Krisinger, USAF The Pentagon Brig Gen Phillip D. Caine, USAF, Retired Monument, Colorado Dr. Charles Krupnick US Army War College Col Steven D. Carey USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth RAND and Education Lt Col David MacIsaac, USAF, Retired Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun Montgomery, Alabama US Army War College Dr. Karl P. Magyar Dr. Mark Clodfelter Montgomery, Alabama National War College Col Edward Mann, USAF, Retired Dr. Conrad Crane Colorado Springs, Colorado Director, US Army Military Studies Institute Mr. Brent Marley Dr. Dik A. Daso USAF Air War College National Air and Space Museum Dr. Jerome V. Martin Smithsonian Institution Command Historian Col Michael D. Davis Headquarters US Strategic Command USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research Col Phillip Meilinger, USAF, Retired and Education Chicago, Illinois Dr. William L. Dowdy Dr. Daniel Mortensen Alabama State University USAF College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired and Education USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Dr. Richard R. Muller USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Dr. Stephen Fought USAF Air War College Col Robert Owen, USAF, Retired Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Col Thomas E. Griffith Jr., USAF National War College Col Bob Potter, USAF, Retired Montgomery, Alabama Dr. John F. Guilmartin Jr. Ohio State University Lt Col Thomas R. Searle Headquarters US Special Operations Command Dr. Grant T. Hammond Col James Spencer, USAF, Retired Center for Strategy and Technology USAF Academy Air University Col Michael A. Stanley Dr. Thomas Hughes USAF Air War College USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Col Richard Szafranski, USAF, Retired Lt Col J. P. Hunerwadel, USAF, Retired Toffler Associates USAF Doctrine Center Dr. James Titus Col Mark P. Jelonek, USAF USAF Academy The Pentagon Lt Col Edward B. Tomme, USAF, Retired, PhD Col John Jogerst, USAF Sci-Ops Consulting Commandant, Air Force Special Operations School Col Mark Wells, USAF Mr. Charles Tustin Kamps USAF Academy USAF Air Command and Staff College Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell Dr. Tom Keaney Christiansburg, Virginia School of Advanced International Studies Dr. Harold R. Winton Johns Hopkins University USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies 3 Board of Reviewers.indd 3 7/28/06 10:35:41 AM APJ Interdependence Key to Our Common Success GEN TOM HOBBINS, USAF INCE I TOOK command of US Air As I look to the future, I see only increasing Forces in Europe (USAFE) and of opportunities to further develop and strengthen North Atlantic Treaty Organization our interdependent relationships to address (NATO) Air Component Command future security challenges. USAFE is heavily SRamstein (CC-Air Ramstein), I have been engaged with our sister services, allies, and highly impressed with both the commitment partners in forging an interdependent team. and performance of the men and women of We’re making great strides in transforming those extremely busy, continuously engaged our own USAFE operations to ensure we are commands. Their level of activity and breadth postured for both present and future challenges: of involvement are simply staggering. Our goal reorganizing our headquarters, improving re- is to fly, fight, and win as a value-recognized gional interaction and security through our member of an interdependent team of allies, theater security cooperation (TSC) programs, services, and coalition partners. History has and integrating ground-component operations proven that we are most successful when we with our own. NATO is undergoing profound combine our capabilities to achieve common changes as well: moving beyond its borders, security interests. committing to the International Security As- 4 SLP-Hobbins.indd 4 7/28/06 10:36:17 AM INTERDEPENDENCE 5 sistance Force (ISAF), and adopting a posture our goals, and our TSC program has proven to support the NATO Response Force (NRF). critical in the global war on terrorism, deliver- USAFE is currently in the process of trans- ing operational access for basing; increasing forming its numbered air forces and restruc- training opportunities; and enhancing intelli- turing its management headquarters to produce gence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) world-class, full-spectrum, joint-war-fighting collaboration through the establishment of structures linked together in a collaborative- cooperative relationships. In fiscal year 2005 planning network. USAFE’s new Warfighting alone, USAFE conducted over 500 separate Headquarters (WFHQ) supports contingency TSC events, engaging 66 of the 91 countries in operations theaterwide.