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Air & Space Power Journal - Summer 2007

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

The US Air Force began publishing the English version of Air and Space Power Journal (ASPJ) in 1947. To expand its language and cultural outreach, the service launched Spanish and Portuguese editions in 1949 as well as Arabic and French ones in 2005. We are now pleased to announce the imminent debut of the Chinese ASPJ, designed to encourage professional dialogue between Chinese-speaking military and government members worldwide.

Each ASPJ editor is a regional expert and native speaker who tailors his journal’s content to audience interests. The new Chinese ASPJ editor, Mr. Guocheng Jiang, has impressive credentials. He grew up in China, living through both the Great Famine of the early 1960s and the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. In the 1970s, he was “reeducated” in the countryside for three years before becoming a “worker-peasant-soldier” student at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages.¹ In the subsequent era of economic reform, Mr. Jiang became deeply involved in several high-profile industrial projects in partnership with foreign companies. As a journalist and chief interpreter, he covered foreign technological developments and authored several pioneering papers about contract negotiation and writing. After earning his first master’s degree from Nanjing Normal University, Mr. Jiang taught English to graduate students. He then joined Yilin Publishing House, where he wore two hats—one as a technical editor and another as the author of two books about economic topics. His book Gate to GATT received immediate acclaim in business and language-teaching circles.2 Mr. Jiang later emigrated to the United States, where he attended Johns Hopkins University and completed a second master’s degree in 1996. He then worked for about 10 years in the US publication and software industries. His extensive experience in China and the United States will help him promote the constructive exchange of ideas between the Chinese and American militaries.

For the inaugural edition of the Chinese ASPJ, Mr. Jiang has selected and translated previously published articles about military transformation, strategy, and education. He is soliciting articles from Chinese-speaking airmen worldwide and will publish them in upcoming quarterly issues as they become available.
The established ASPJ editions serve the needs of military services in over 90 countries worldwide, where air forces, armies, and navies use the Journal’s articles for instructional purposes in academies and staff colleges. Officials of foreign governments also find them useful. We hope that the new Chinese ASPJ will prove equally valuable.

All ASPJ editions promote professional dialogue among airmen throughout the world so that we can harness the best ideas about air, space, and cyberspace 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 military topics and can accommodate articles too lengthy for inclusion in the printed journals.

Articles appearing in COJ are frequently republished elsewhere. The various ASPJ editions routinely translate and print them. Book editors 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):

• Lt Col Richard S. Tracey, USA, retired, “Trapped by a Mindset: The Iraq WMD Intelligence Failure”
(http://www.airpower .maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/tracey .html)

• Maj Joseph T. Benson, USAF, “Weather and the Wreckage at Desert-One” (http://www .airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/benson.html)

The ASPJ staff seeks insightful articles and book reviews from anywhere in the world. We offer both hard-copy and electronic-publication opportunities in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, and Chinese. 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.

Notes
1. The term reeducated refers to a national movement from 1968 to 1975 that called for sending millions of ­urban students to the countryside for reeducation by peasants. These students faced tremendous challenges. Worker-peasant-soldier students reflected Mao Tse-tung’s policy, in effect from 1972 to 1976, of sending youths with practical job experience to college without requiring college examinations.

2. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) later became the World Trade Organization.

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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