Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), published by the National Defense University Press and the Institute for National Security Studies for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the Chairman's flagship joint military and security studies journal, designed to inform members of the U.S. Armed Forces, allies, and other partners about:

    * Joint and integrated operations
    * National security policy and strategy;
    * Efforts to combat terrorism
    * Homeland security
    * Developments in training and joint professional military education

JFQ’s aim is to help transform America's military and security apparatus to better meet tomorrow's challenges while protecting freedom today.

The Forum section provides several essays on a key security or defense topic, including exclusive interviews with senior national and international leaders.

The Interagency Dialog section provides an avenue for discourse among security professionals across Government agency lines, while the Recall series presents exceptional historical research on a wide variety of military and diplomatic topics.

About the Covers: The front cover shows F–22 receiving fuel from KC–135 over Eglin Air Force Base (U.S. Air Force/Bryan Franks). The table of contents shows (left to right): Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system being towed to hangar after mission over Southwest Asia (U.S. Air Force/Jason Tudor); RQ–8A Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicle test firing unguided Mark–66 2.75-inch rocket (Northrop Grumman/Tim Paynter); crew of Apollo 11 erecting U.S. flag on Moon (NASA); and MV–22B preparing to land at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq (2d Marine Air Wing/Sheila M Brooks). The back cover shows (clockwise from top): USS Harry S. Truman receiving underway replenishment from USNS Arctic in Persian Gulf (U.S. Navy/Kenneth R. Hendrix); SEAL leading Afghan officer to border checkpoint in Afghanistan (U.S. Marine Corps/Luis P. Valdespino); Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy with awardwinning Navy recruiters (U.S. Navy/Jennifer A. Villalovos); USS Constitution, the Navy’s oldest commissioned warship, moored in Charlestown, Massachusetts; crew of USS Porter striking World War II–era pose while conducting maritime security in Indian Ocean (U.S. Navy/ Patrick Gearhiser).

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JFQ Dialogue
4 Letters to the Editor
6 Joint Doctrine Update

Forum
7 Executive Summary
10 America’s Air Force: The Nation’s Guardian By T. Michael Moseley
16 MV–22B Osprey: A Strategic Leap Forward By Glenn M. Walters
20 Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Decisive in Battle By Jeffrey Kappenman
24 A Strategy Based on Faith: The Enduring Appeal of Progressive
American Airpower By Mark Clodfelter
32 Shaping the Joint Fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace By C. Robert Kehler
38 Strategic Air Mobility and Global Power Projection By Arthur J. Lichte
44 Domain Expertise and Command and Control
By Raymond E. Johns, Jr., and Bruce Hanessian
49 Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Taking Strategy to Task By David A. Deptula
52 Data Transparency: Empowering Decisionmakers By Michael W. Peterson
54 Aerial Partners in Arms By Benjamin S. Lambeth
61 The Joint STARS Challenge By Price T. Bingham
66 Spacepower in the 21st Century By Charles D. Lutes
73 A Deeper Shade of Blue: The School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
By Stephen D. Chiabotti
   The Next Horizon: Building a Viable Force
By John A.Bradley, Gary L. Crone, and David W. Hembroff

Commentary
77 Rebuilding Global Airpower By Barry R. McCaffrey
80 Air and Space Power Going Forward By David A. Deptula
86 Developing Joint Counterinsurgency Doctrine: An Airman’s Perspective
By Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
93 On Airpower, Land Power, and Counterinsurgency: Getting Doctrine Right
By James S. Corum
98 National Security and Global Climate Change By Sean C. Maybee

Features
103 Military Culture and Transformation By Michael B. Siegl
107 Sourcing Perception Warriors By C. Glenn Ayers and James R. Orbock
110 The Challenge That Is USAFRICOM By Isaac Kfir
115 Developing National Security Professionals By John W. Yaeger
121 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: An Open Source Analysis
By Matthew M. Frick
128 Hizballah Rising: Iran’s Proxy Warriors By Shannon W. Caudill

Interagency Dialogue
135 Managing Mayhem: The Future of Interagency Reform By James Jay Carafano

Recall
138 Reappraising FDR’s Approach to World War II in Europe By Michael S. Bell

Book Reviews
146 John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power
Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood
147 Salvaging American Defense: The Challenge of Strategic Overstretch
Reviewed by Shawn Brimley
148 Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century:
Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective
Reviewed by Thomas M. Kane
149 Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy’s Status Quo Culture
Reviewed by Christopher R. Davis

Open Letter to JFQ Readers:

When General Colin Powell established Joint Force Quarterly, he envisioned a journal that would contain all the practical utility of Marine Corps Gazette and the glossy visual presentation of the Naval Institute’s Proceedings. In this issue, JFQ seeks to support a helpful debate over contemporary issues of air and space power in order to improve joint and interagency synergy. In the July issue, the debate will be very different, inasmuch as sister Service use of naval power does not precipitate the same friction and rancor. The illusory tranquility of the naval power debate is due to the fact that it is largely conducted intra-Service, which increases the opportunities for error in naval strategy and procurement. For balance, JFQ shall commit a future issue to Land Warfare issues and challenges as well.

The forthcoming 51st issue of the Chairman’s journal will present the winners of the May 2008 Secretary of Defense Transformation and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategic Essay Competitions (open only to students enrolled in participating military colleges). In addition, JFQ encourages you to submit manuscripts that speak to your unique professional strengths and interests. Boldly challenge traditional thought and operational practice in the joint, interagency, national security community, and propose a new school solution!

Visit Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 49, 2nd Quarter, 2008

Published by National Defense University Press.

NDU Press is the National Defense University’s cross-component, professional, military, and academic publishing house. It publishes books, policy briefs, occasional papers, monographs, and special reports on national security strategy, defense policy, national military strategy, regional security affairs, and global strategic problems. NDU Press is part of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, a policy research and strategic gaming organization.

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