Commanding the future the transformation of air force space command

Air and Space Power Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 9-15

  Lord, Lance W ^a  

^a USAF   (United States)

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References (22)

1. Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) 1, Air Force Basic Doctrine, 17 November 2003, 105.
2. David N. Spiers et al., eds., Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership (Peterson AFB, CO: Air Force Space Command, 1997), 169.
3. Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Final Report to Congress (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, April 1992).
4. "President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended: Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln at Sea Off the Coast of San Diego, California," 1 May 2003, http://www.whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2003/05/iraq/20030501-15.html.
5. Lt Gen Michael Moseley, "Coalition Forces Air Component Command Briefing," United States Department of Defense, News Transcript, 5 April 2003, http:/www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/t04052003_t405mose.html.
6. This AOC is located at Vandenberg AFB, CA.
7. Lt Gen Daniel P. Leaf, Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, CO, interview by Maj John Wagner, 14 August 2003. Currently the vice-commander of Air Force Space Command, General Leaf served as director of the Air Component Coordination Element for the combined force land component commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
8. Gen Bernard A. Schriever, "Military Space Activities: Recollections and Observations," in The U.S. Air Force in Space: 1945 to the Twenty-first Century, ed. R. Cargill Hall and Jacob Neufeld (Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998), 15.
9. Air Force Space Command Historian's Office, "Brigadier General Martin Menter," Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers, http://www.peterson. af.mil/hqafspc/ history/menter.htm.
10. Air Force Space Command Historian's Office, "Colonel Albert J. Wetzel," Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers, http://www.peterson.af.mil/ hqafspc/history/Wetzel.htm.
11. Air Force Space Command Historian's Office, "Mr. John C. Herther," Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers, http://www.peterson.af.mil/ hqafspc/history/herther.htm.
12. Air Force Space Command Historian's Office, "Captain Robert C. Truax (USN)," Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers, http://wvw.peterson.af.mil/ hqafspc/history/ Truax.htm.
13. Annual Performance Plan (Peterson AFB, CO: Headquarters Air Force Space Command, 2003), 2.
14. Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization: Executive Summary (Washington, DC: The Commission, 11 January 2001), 18.
15. Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization: Executive Summary, Ibid. Space Commission is the term commonly used to refer to the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization.
16. Report of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization: Executive Summary Ibid., 23.
17. Air Force Space Command Strategic Master Plan, FY06 and Beyond (Colorado Springs, CO: Headquarters Air Force Space Command/XPXP, 1 October 2003), 23.
18. AFDD 2-2, Space Operations, 27 November 2001, 14.
19. The 1st Space Control Squadron tracks objects down to about 10 cm (softball size), which could do extensive damage to a manned or unmanned spacecraft.
20. Air Force Space Command Strategic Master Plan, 3.
21. These capabilities include, but are not limited to, space-based space surveillance (SBSS), space-based radar (SBR), space-based infrared system (SBIRS), and transformational communications.
22. Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defense (address, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC, 31 January 2002).