Document created: 6 February 03
Air University Review, March-April 1977

From the Editor's Aerie

Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., in our lead article, "Emerging Major Power Relationships," reflects on the shifting great power triangle of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China. The cover, by Art Editor/ Illustrator Bill DePaola, depicts an American eagle warily observing this triangle in a graphic elaboration of an abstract theme.

 For the first time in the experience of this editor, the Awards Committee members were unanimous in their first place votes for Major Don Alberts's "A Call from the Wilderness" in the November-December 1976 issue. Aspiring authors who want to gain insight into subject matter that receives a very receptive reading by our editorial panel may want to re-examine that article.

 To the 50 percent of Air Force officers who necessarily receive an efficiency rating of three or below, it may be of more than passing interest to learn that the pseudonymous author of "I Am a Three" was recently promoted. You won't find Major Mark Wynn's name on the lieutenant colonel's promotion list, but we have it on good authority that the author who appeared under that nom de plume in the September-October 1976 issue is a living example that "threes" are promotable. Congratulations would seem to be appropriate, but how does one congratulate the anonymous?

In this issue we find ourselves in the slightly embarrassed position of publishing an article by a member of the Air University Review Awards Committee. Wing Commander Peter M. Papworth, Royal Air Force, appears here as the author of "The Integrity of the Warsaw Pact, Part I." We value his judgment and regret that Her Majesty's representative must be temporarily absent from our deliberations.

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