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Air & Space Power Journal - Summer 2006

Lt Col Paul D. Berg, USAF, Chief, Professional Journals

The mission of the United States Air Force is to deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests—to fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace.” This new mission statement retains the service’s traditional emphasis on air and space operations, while the new reference to cyberspace reflects the growing importance of the informational domain.

Air and Space Power Journal (ASPJ), the professional journal of the United States Air Force, has deep cyberspace roots. Originally known as the Air University Quarterly Review, the journal has undergone several name changes over the years. Beginning publication in early 1947, months before the Air Force became a separate service, the journal existed only in printed form until the 1990s, when it established a cyberspace presence by posting new quarterly issues online. To expand their Internet outreach, the journal’s staff members soon began scanning and posting back issues online. All of the English issues of Air and Space Power Journal, Aerospace Power Journal, and Airpower Journal dating back to 1987 are available at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/back.htm . Air University Review issues from the late 1960s to early 1987 are available at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/aureview.html . Many Spanish and Portuguese ASPJ issues published since 1949 are also available online, as are all issues of the Arabic and French ASPJs, which appeared in 2005. Researchers now have instant access to thousands of articles in five languages. Eventually all back issues will be online.

E-mail now helps serve ASPJ’s global audience. Free e-mail subscriptions available at http://www.af.mil/subscribe  instantly deliver new quarterly issues. The English ASPJ e-mail service, launched in 2003, has over 8,000 subscribers. Nearly 2,000 have joined the Spanish e-mail service, begun in 2004, and hundreds have joined the French one, begun in early 2006.

Today, ASPJ has an impressive cyberspace presence. The ASPJ Web site receives over 1,000,000 hits per month, dominating discourse about airpower and space power on the Internet. Try this simple demonstration: go to http://www.google.com , and search the term air power. The ASPJ Web site will be at the top of the list of several hundred million search results. A search for space power yields similar results. Clearly, ASPJ is a dominant cyberspace operation.

All ASPJ editions promote professional dialogue among Airmen worldwide so that we can harness the best ideas about airpower and space power. Chronicles Online Journal (COJ) complements the printed editions of ASPJ but appears only in electronic form. Not subject to any fixed publication schedule, COJ can publish timely articles anytime about a broad range of topics, including historical, political, or technical matters. It also includes articles too lengthy for inclusion in the printed journals.

Articles appearing in COJ are frequently republished elsewhere. The Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and French editions of ASPJ, for example, routinely translate and print them. Book editors from around the world select them as book chapters, and college professors use them in the classroom. We are pleased to present the following recent COJ articles (available at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc.html ):

The ASPJ editorial staff always seeks insightful articles and book reviews from anywhere in the world. We offer both hard-copy and electronic-publication opportunities in five languages, as noted above. To submit an article in any of our languages, please refer to the submission guidelines at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/howto1.html . To write a book review, please see the guidelines at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/bookrev/bkrevguide.html .

Disclaimer

The conclusions and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author cultivated in the freedom of expression, academic environment of Air University. They do not reflect the official position of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, the United States Air Force or the Air University

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