Airpower Journal

Spring 1996

Volume X, No. 1

AFRP 10-1


The following articles are available from the Spring 96 Airpower Journal. A Red Check next to the article signifies the Ira C. Eaker Award Winner for best article.


Flight Lines

Flight Lines, 2.0
Countering Professional Relativism
 

Feature Articles

PDF Telecommunications, Politics, Economics, and National Sovereignty: A new game
      by Dr George Bugliarello
    Political power and economic power may operate over the same territory but, more often, their
      domains do not coincide.

PDF Generation, Waves, and Epochs: Modes of Warfare and the RPMA
      by Dr Robert J. Bunker
    Tofflerian concepts, which have gained so much credence with the Army, are now beginning to
      openly influence Air Force dialogue on information-based future wars.

PDF Revolutionizing Warfare Through Interdiction
      by Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF, Retired
    Examining the role of interdiction in past wars will help explain why JSTARS is the key to
      revolutionizing warfare through interdiction.

Red Check Commander's Intent: An Aerospace Tool for Command and Control
         by Lt Col Michael Straight, USAF
         Planning for employment of joint teams begins with articulating and understanding the objective,
         purpose of the operations, and commander's intent (the commander's vision of the end state to be
         achieved).

PDF Ten Propositions Regarding Airpower
      by Col Phillips S. Meilinger, USAF
    The consistency of the principles of war indicates that despite the doubts expressed by military
      theoreticians concerning their validity, they satisfy a deep need in military thinking

PDF Twelve Principles Emerging From Ten Propositions
      by Col Richard Szafranski, USAF
    The strengths of 10 Propositions Regarding Air Power are that the volume is simple, slim,
      assertive, and challenging.

PDF Desert Storm: War, Time, and Substitution Revisited
      by Dr Herman L. Gilster
    Significant deviations occurred in the planned execution of the air campaign. One began on the third
      day of the war, when Iraq launched Scud missiles at Israel. As a result of the political significance of
      these strikes, the coalition began intense operations to find, destroy or suppress the mobile missile
      launchers.

PDF Antipodal Zones: Implications for the Future of Space Surveillance and Control
      by Maj Martin E. B. France, USAF
    Mankind's machines, his routes of travel and commerce, and the environment in which he has fought
      his wars were until relatively recent times confined to two dimensions that were restricted to the
      earth's surface-land and sea.

Way Points

 
Daehnick on Siegel: Base Access in Perspective
by Major Chris Daehnick, USAF
 
Jennings on Doctrine: Aerospace and Air Space
by Lt Col Frank W. Jennings, USAF, Retired

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