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Distinguished Participants,
We, Air War College, are honored to host you at the first International Symposium
on the History of Air Warfare (ISAW) in Türkiye. In the symposium, organized by
Air War College with the support of Turkish Air Force, the history of air warfare
will be analyzed and the facts under the light of scholarly assessment will be
provided for decision-makers of today and tomorrow. Academicians, scholars,
senior fellows and top rank military officials well-known in the field of air power
history, theory and strategy will make significant contribution to the discipline of
Air Warfare History during the symposium which will be held in this beautiful city
İstanbul where continents meet.
Topics of Air Warfare History, which will be discussed on an academic platform
through ISAW, will shed light on the experiences of various countries in the last
century. While providing an academic atmosphere in each session where participants will be able to discuss their ideas freely, the symposium will help enlighten
the future of air power by deepening the understanding of history. ISAW will be
a platform providing a perspective that helps us to look to the future from the
historical aspects.
The symposium will be held in six sessions including a very attractive opening
session. Session Topics as follows:
-Air Power in Theory and Implementation
-Air and Space Power in 20th-Century Warfare
-How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service
-The Contribution of R&D and Think Tanks to Air and Space Power
-Air Power and Society
Thanks in advance for contribution of all participants.
Respectfully,
10 April 2014 Thursday
09.00 - 10.15
Opening Speeches
Speaker
Title
Welcome Speech by
Brigadier General R.
Sami Özatak
Commander, Turkish Air War College
Opening Speech by
General Akın Öztürk
Commander, Turkish Air Force
Keynote Speech
Speaker
Title
Subject
General Mirco Zuliani
Deputy Supreme Allied
Commander Transformation (DSACT), NATO
Air Power: Leading
Continuous
Transformation
10.15 - 11.00
Photo and Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00
Speaker
1’st Session:
Air Power In Theory And Implementation
Title
Subject
Colonel John A. Warden
Air Power Theorist, CEO
III, USAF (Ret.)
Venturist Inc., USA
(Keynote Speaker)
21st Century Airpower
Theory: Next Steps
Major General Kubilay
Selçuk
Director of Command
and Control Department
in Turkish General Staff,
Türkiye
Chairman
Air Commodore ID
(Paddy) Teakle
Head of Joint Doctrine,
Air & Space, Development, Concepts &
Doctrine Centre, UK
His Greatest Gift Trenchard’s Theories on
Airpower
Professor Luciano
Bozzo
Political Science and
Sociology Department
(DISPO) of the University of Florence, Italy
Post Cold War Airpower: The Curious Case
of Vanishing Strategic
Effectiveness
Professor Mark
Clodfelter
Professor of Military
Strategy at the National
War College, Washington, DC, USA
Theory, Implementation,
and the Future of Air
Power
Dr. Colonel Phillip S.
Meilinger, USAF (Ret.)
Military Historian and
Former Dean of the
School of Advanced
Airpower Studies, USA
Air Targeting:
An Overview
13.00 - 14.30
Lunch
14.30 - 16.30
2’nd Session:
Air And Space Power In 20th-Century Warfare
Speaker
Title
Subject
Dr. Benjamin S.
Lambeth
(Keynote Speaker)
Senior Fellow at the
Center for Strategic
and Budgetary Assessments, USA
Air Power Comes of
Age: The Maturation of
Aerial Warfare in the
Late 20th Century
Major General Rubén
Carlos García Servert
Commander, NATO
Combined Air Operations Center Torrejón
(CAOC TJ), Spain
Chairman
Brigadier General
Dr. Ahmet Cural
Commander of Turkish
Air Force NCO College and Air Specialty
Schools,
Former Dean of Turkish
Air Force Academy,
Türkiye
The Vital Role Of Air
Power In The Struggle
Of A Nation’s Liberty:
The Great Offensive
In The War Of Turkish
Independence Case
Colonel Professor John
Andreas Olsen
Deputy Director General
in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Norway
Visiting Professor of Operational Art and Tactics
at the Swedish National
Defence College
The Pursuit of Victory
Through Airpower
Professor James Corum
Dean of the Baltic Defence College, Estonia
The Origins of Air Power
Thought 100 Years Ago
Dr. Andrij Kharuk
Chief of Department of
Humanitarian Sciences
at the Hetman Petro
Sahaydachnyi Army
Academy, Ukraine
East Front Close Air
Support: Attempt of
Comparative Analysis
11 April 2014 Friday
08.30 - 10.30
3’rd Session:
How Air Power Has Become An Independent Service
Speaker
Title
Subject
General Frank Gorenc
(Keynote Speaker)
Commander, U.S. Air Forces in
Europe,
Commander, U.S. Air Forces
Africa,
Commander Allied Air Command,
Ramstein Air Base,Germany,
Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany.
Independent Air Forces in
the 21st Century
Mr. Sebastian Cox
Head of the Air Historical Branch
(RAF) in the UK Ministry of
Defence, UK
Chairman
Major General
H. Hüseyin Demirarslan
Director of Personnel Department
in Turkish Air Force, Türkiye
“Road to Independence:
Turkish Air Force”
Major General Junichi
Araki
Director of General Affairs Department in Joint Staff, Japan
The Struggling Pursuit
for Independent Airpower
Before and After the Pacific
War
Brigadier General
Basilio Di Martino
Technical Deputy Director of the
Information Technology,
Communications and Advanced
Technologies Directorate of the
General Secretariat of Defence,
Italy
From Air Corps to Air Force:
1915-1923 The road to
independence of the Italian
Air Force
Air Commodore Kaiser
Tufail (Ret.)
Air Power Strategist and Author of
“Great Air Battles of Pakistan Air
Force”, Pakistan
How Air Power Transformed
into an Independent Service
and Contemporary Challenges to its Independence
Director of Historical Studies of the
Argentine Air Force, Argentine
How Argentine Air Power
Has Become An Independent Service in 1945:
Domestic Needs, Foreigner
Influences
Colonel Oscar Luis
Aranda Durañona
(Ret.)
10.30 - 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00
4’th Session: The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To
Air And Space Power
Speaker
Title
Subject
Professor Yücel Altunbaşak
(Keynote Speaker)
President of The Scientific
and Technological Council of Turkey (TUBITAK),
Türkiye
The Contribution of Space,
Aviation and R&D Studies to
Technological Development
Major General Khalid
Abdulla Mubarak Al
Bu-ainnain Al Mazrouei
Chairman of Baynuna
Group for Companies Management,
Formal Commander of UAE
Air Force and Air Defence,
UAE
Chairman
Lieutenant General Joachim
Wundrak
Executive Director, Joint Air
Power Competence Centre
Commander, German Air
Force Air Operations Command
Commander, Combined Air
Operations Centre Uedem,
Germany
NATO Air Power - Quo
vadis?
Associate Professor Jong
Kun Choi
Associate Professor at the
Department of Political
Science and International
Studies at Yonsei University,
Republic of Korea
Between Autonomy and
Dependence: Role of Think
Tank and R&D Institutions
in South Korea’s Air and
Space Power
Dr. Sanu Kainikara
Air Power Strategist of the
Royal Australian Air Force at
the Air Power Development
Centre, Australia
TBD
Dr. Brad Gladman
Strategic Analyst of Royal
Linking Strategy to OpCanadian Air Force at the
erations Using Air Power
Canadian Forces Aerospace Knowledge Development as
Warfare Centre, Canada
a Catalyst
Dr. Rebecca Grant
President of IRIS Independent Research and Director
of the Washington Security
Forum, USA
13.00 - 14.30
Lunch
Four Technologies for
Future Air Warfare
14.30 - 16.30
5’th Session: Air Power And Society
Speaker
Title
Subject
Professor Banu Onaral
(Keynote Speaker)
H. H. Sun Professor of
Biomedical Engineering and
Electrical Engineering at Drexel
University,
Founding Director of the School
of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems, USA
Air and Space Power
as Drivers of Civilian
Innovation and
Economic Development
Professor Nurşin
Ateşoğlu Güney
Professor of International Relations and Head of International
Relations Department at Yıldız
Technical University, Istanbul,
Türkiye
Chairlady
Brigadier General Dr.
Zenon Smutniak (Ret.)
Visiting Professor at National
Defense University,
Former Rector of National Defense University, Poland
Are We Suffering From
Tunnel Vision? Airpower
As Seen By Airmen
Air Vice Marshal
Manmohan Bahadur
(Ret.)
Distinguished Fellow at the
Centre for Air Power Studies,
New Delhi, India
Air Power: Societal Tool
of a Higher Calling
Colonel Professor Mark
K. Wells
Permanent Professor and Head
Department of History, United
States Air Force Academy, USA
Tribal Warfare: The
Society of Modern
Airmen
Colonel Gökhan
Sönmezateş
Head of Joint Personnel Recovery Branch, Chief of Joint Target
Analysis Center, TurAF, Türkiye
The History of Turkish
Air Force Rescue
Operations
Mr. Philip Handleman
Aviation Author and President of
Handleman Filmworks, USA
Depictions of Air Power
in Western Art.
Closing Speech
Speaker
Title
Dr. Sanu Kainikara
Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air Force at the
Air Power Development Centre, Australia
General Akın Öztürk
Turkish Air Force Commander
Opening Speech
International Symposium on the History of
Air Warfare - ISAW 2014
General Akın ÖZTÜRK, was born in 1952 in Gümüşhane. After completing his
high school education in Erzincan, he graduated from Turkish Air Force Academy
in 1973.
Upon graduating from 2nd Main Jet Base (MJB) Flight Training School as fighter
pilot in 1975, he was assigned to 7th MJB, Malatya where he served as F-100
and then F-4 pilot until 1981. Between 1981 and 1985, he was assigned to 1st
MJB, Eskişehir where he served as Squadron Officer and Standardization and
Evaluation Branch Chief. He attended Air War College in 1985 and graduated
in 1987.
He was assigned to 3rd MJB as Standardization and Evaluation Officer in
1987. In 1989 he was assigned to 4th MJB where he became an F-16 pilot. He
served as 141st Squadron Operations Officer between 1989 and 1991. He then
served as 141st Squadron Commander until 1993. Between 1993 and 1996 he
served as Project Officer and Branch Chief in Training Department at Turkish Air
Headquarters. He was the Turkish Military attache to Israel between 1996 and
1998. He then became the Operations Commander of the 6th MJB, Bandırma
between 1998 and 2000.
After his promotion to Brigadier General in 2000, he served as Chief of Training
Department in Air Force Headquarters for two years and as the Commander of
9th MJB until 2004. As of 2004 he was promoted to Major General and assigned
as Commander of 2nd Air Supply and Maintenance Center for two years. In
2006 he assumed the command of 2nd MJB. In 2008, he became the Chief of
Intelligence of Turkish Air Force.
In 2009, he was promoted to Lieutenant General and served as the 2nd Air Force
Commander for two years. He then became the Commander of the Air Training
Command. As of 22 August 2013, General ÖZTÜRK assumed the duty of the
Turkish Air Force Commander. He has been promoted to the rank of General as
of 30 August 2013.
General ÖZTÜRK is married to Mrs. Tülay ÖZTÜRK, has a daughter and a son.
Brigadier General R. Sami Özatak
Turkish Air War College Commander
Welcome Speech
International Symposium on the History of
Air Warfare - ISAW 2014
Brigadier General R. Sami ÖZATAK joined the Turkish Air Force in 1987 and
served as fighter pilot in various combat units. He succeeded in fighter pilot
training in 1989. After having Combat Readiness training in 3 rd Main Jet Base,
he became an F-4 pilot. Between 1990 and1995, he served as wingman and
flight leader in the 1 st Main Jet Base.
He attended F-16 transition training in USA in 1995 and assigned to 8 th Main
Jet Base. He attended the Turkish Air War College between 1997 and 1999. He
served in various operational positions in 2 nd Air Force Command and 6 th Main
Jet Base between 1999 and 2004. He was assigned as German Air Attache in
2004. Between 2006 and 2009, he worked in Human Source Management and
as Student Regiment Commander in Turkish Air Force Academy.
Between 2008-2010, he was Operations Commander in 9 th Main Jet Base and
between 2010-2012 he worked as Chief of Operations Division in Turkish Air
Force Headquarters.
He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on 30 August 2012 and
assigned to his current duty as the Commander of Turkish Air War College.
He is married to Mrs. Hatice ÖZATAK and has two sons.
General Mirco Zuliani
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander
Transformation (DSACT)
Keynote Speaker of the Symposium
International Symposium on the History of Air
Warfare - ISAW 2014
“Air Power: Leading Continuous
Transformation”
General Mirco ZULIANI joined the Italian Air Force Academy in 1974 as an
Officer Cadet and graduated in 1978.
In 1980 he completed flight training and became military pilot on G.91.T aircraft.
In November 1980 he completed the qualification on F.104S aircraft and was
assigned to 155th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 51st Wing at Istrana/Treviso AFB.
Soon after, he was selected to join the Italian Air Force Flight Test Center
at Pratica di Mare AFB and attended the “RAF Empire Test Pilot” Course at
Boscombe Down, UK. As Experimental Test Pilot, he was responsible for several
experimental programs, chief trainer for Production Test Courses and Lead in
flight display both for G222 and Tornado aircraft.
In 1990, he was appointed Squadron Commander of 132nd Squadron “Buscaglia”
and in 1991 Chief of Operations of the 3rd Wing in Villafranca AFB.
Afterwards, in 1993, he was assigned to the Italian Air Force Staff – 4th
Department (Logistics) where he was in charge of several acquisition programs
for the Italian airborne fleets.
Upon promotion to Colonel, he was assigned as Commander of the 36th Fighter
Bomber Wing at Gioia del Colle AFB during the Kosovo crisis, from 1998 to
2000. Later, he served as Chief of 5th Office “Logistic Support” in the Italian Air
Force Command.
As Brigadier General, from 2003 to 2006 he served in the Italian Air Force
Logistic Command, initially as Deputy Chief of Staff and then as Commander of
the 2nd Division (Aircrafts, Weapons and Avionics Technical & Logistic Support).
He served as the Defence and Defence Cooperation Attaché in the Italian
Embassy in Washington D.C. (USA) from 2006 to 2009.
From 2009 to 2011, with the rank of Major General, he was in charge of the New
Weapon Systems Projects for the Italian Defence, as Chief of 4th Department,
Office of the National Directorate of Armament/Secretary General of Defence in
Rome, and then Commander of the Italian Air Force Flight Test Center.
Promoted Lieutenant General in 2012, his initial assignment was Commander of
the ITA AF Air Operations Centre and NATO Combined Air Operations Centre,
Poggio Renatico (Ferrara) before being appointed as Designated Deputy
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation.
Gen. Zuliani is qualified on more than 45 different types of aircrafts and helicopters
and has flown more than 3.700 hours.
As part of his professional training, he attended the Air War College in Florence,
the Test Pilot Course at the RAF Empire Test Pilot School at Boscombe Down
(UK), the USAF Air War College at Maxwell in Alabama (USA) and the NATO
Weapon Systems Management Course in Munich (GE).
He has a B.A. in Aeronautical Science at the University of Napoli and in
International and Diplomatic Science at the University of Trieste.
His awards and decorations include Military Air Navigation Golden Medal,
Golden Military Service Cross, “Commendatore” of Merit of the Italian Republic,
“Mauriziana” Medal, NATO Medals for service on operations in Ex Yugoslavia
and Kosovo and “Commendatore” of Air Merit of the Brazil Federal Republic.
In 2001, he was awarded the Honorary Officer Medal of British Empire Military
Division by H.M. Queen Elizabeth.
General Zuliani is married to Mrs Carla and they have a son, Marco.
Colonel John A. Warden III, USAF (Ret)
Air Power Theorist, CEO Venturist Inc.
Keynote Speaker of the 1st Session
“21st Century Airpower Theory: Next Steps”
John A. Warden III is the president of Venturist, Inc., the company he founded
after retiring from the Air Force in 1995 His company helps corporations and
organizations learn and execute the concepts of winning strategy. Venturist
clients have included Texas Instruments, McDonald’s, government agencies,
and many others. His diverse background includes serving as the architect
for the successful Gulf War 1991 Desert Storm air campaign, authoring the
best-selling The Air Campaign, heading the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff
College, working as Special Assistant to the Vice President of the United States,
commanding the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-15s) in Germany; and flying in the
Vietnam War (266 combat missions). His business strategy book, Winning in
FastTime, is available on-line and in selected book stores as is The Air Campaign.
He has published numerous articles on planning, strategy, and aerospace power,
has appeared on many television and radio shows, and has spoken to groups
ranging from the American Bar Association to most of the US’s intermediate
and senior professional military education schools and to defense colleges in
Australia, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Chile, Brazil, and France. He
was the 1989 winner of the Air Force Association’s arts and letters Gill Robb
Wilson award.
John Warden graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965,
completed pilot training in 1966, earned a Master’s degree from Texas Tech
University in 1975, and graduated from the National War College in 1986. His
military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior
Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal with
ten oak leaf clusters. He has over 3,000 hours of flying time.
Major General Kubilay Selçuk
Director of Command and Control Department in
Turkish General Staff
Chairman of the 1st Session
Major General Kubilay Selçuk was born in 1961 in Malatya. After completing high
school education at ‘Kuleli Military High School’ in Istanbul, he graduated from
Turkish Air Force Academy in 1982.
Upon graduating from 2nd Main Jet Base (MJB) Flight Training School as fighter
pilot in 1984, he was assigned to 9th MJB, Balıkesir, where he served as fighter
pilot till 1990. In 1990, he was assigned to 4th MJB, Ankara. He attended Air Staff
College in 1992 and graduated in 1994.
In 1994, he was assigned to 2nd Air Force Command and he served as Chief of
Operation Section. He served as ‘National Maneuver Exercise Officer’ in 199597 and served as Operations Section Head in 1997-98.
He was assigned to NATO School Oberammergau, Germany as ‘Teaching
and Course Director’. Then he was assigned to 5th MJB again as 151st Sq.
Commander in 2001 and served for 1 year. He served at Turkish Air Force
(TURAF) Headquarters Personel Division as Assignment Project Officer in 2001.
During this assignment he attended the Armed Forces Higher Command and
Management College.
Gen. Selçuk served at TURAF Headquarters in 2003 as Officer Branch Head,
assigned to 4th MJB as Head of Supervision and Evaluation Directorate in 2005,
assigned to 4th MJB as Operations Commander for one year in 2006, served at
TURAF Headquarters again in 2007 as Electronic Warfare Branch Head.
He was promoted to Brigadier General in 2008 and served as Director of Training
Department between 2008 and 2010, then he became the Commander of the
9th MJB, Balıkesir in 2010.
As of 2012, Gen. Selçuk was promoted to Major General and assumed the duty
of the Director of Command and Control Department in Turkish General Staff.
He has more than 3000 hours flying time in different aircrafts.
Gen. Selçuk is married to Mrs. Nuray, has two daughters.
Air Commodore ID (Paddy) Teakle
Head of Joint Doctrine, Air & Space,
Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre
Speaker in the 1st Session
“His Greatest Gift – Trenchard’s Theories on
Airpower”
Air Commodore Paddy Teakle joined the Royal Air Force in 1978. After navigator
training at No 6 Flying Training School, RAF Finningley he was posted to the
Vulcan force. He subsequently joined the Victor Force at RAF Marham, where
he participated in Op CORPORATE (the Falklands War). In 1985, he converted
to the Tornado GR and was posted to XV Sqn at RAF Laarbruch, from where he
completed the Tornado QWI Course in 1988. During Op GRANBY (Gulf War I),
he flew 21 operational missions from Bahrain.
Promoted to Squadron Leader in 1991, he was assigned as the Tornado Desk
Officer at HQ RAF Germany and HQ 2 Gp before returning to the front line in
1994 as the Flight Commander responsible for the introduction of ALARM into
RAF service with IX(B) Sqn at RAF Bruggen. He attended the Joint Service
Defence College, Greenwich in 1996 and following a year with the Al Yamamah
project in London, was promoted to Wing Commander and posted to Incirlik,
Turkey as DCFACC for Operation NORTHERN WATCH. On return he went to
the Air Warfare Centre where he was responsible for Offensive Air Doctrine. In
March 1999 he deployed to the 5ATAF CAOC at Vicenza, where he was Chief of
Strategy for Op ALLIED FORCE (Kosovo Campaign) for which he was made an
OBE in the 2000 New Years Honours list.
From September 2000 to May 2003 he commanded 31 Sqn at RAF Bruggen
and latterly RAF Marham. During Op TELIC (Gulf War II) he established and
commanded the Combat Air Wing at Ali Al Salem, for which he was awarded a
DSO in the Operational Honours List. Following a short time on the directing staff
of the Advanced Command and Staff Course he was promoted to Group Captain
and took up the post of Director UK Joint Force Air Component from where
he deployed to Islamabad, Pakistan in 2005 as Deputy CFACC for the NATO
Earthquake Relief Mission. In 2006, he was posted to NATO as A3 Division Head
at ACC Ramstein. Promoted to Air Commodore in February 2009 he completed
a one year tour in Kabul, Afghanistan as Director of ISAF Air Operations before
taking up an appointment as Assistant Director Transformation at the Joint Air
Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany, in May 2010. He followed this
with a tour as Director of the CENTCOM Combined Air and Space Operations
Centre in Al Udeid, Qatar, an appointment he held from May to September 2011.
He took up his current appointment in January 2012.
Air Commodore Teakle is married with 3 children. He is an avid Manchester
City supporter and enjoys all sports. His other interests include military history,
cooking and fine wine.
Professor Luciano Bozzo
Political Science and Sociology Department
(DISPO) of the University of Florence
“Post Cold War Airpower: The Curious Case of
Vanishing Strategic Effectiveness”
Luciano Bozzo is a Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences
of the University of Florence, where he teaches International Relations and
Theories of International Politics, as well as having taught Techniques of
Negotiation and Mediation and Strategic Studies. Between the academic years
1996/1997 and 2004/2005, he taught International Relations at the University of
Bologna, and in the academic year 1993/1994 he was professor of Polemologia
at the University of Triest. From 1989/1990 to 1998/1999, he taught Global
Strategy at the War College of the Italian Air Force.
Since the academic year of 2009/2010, Luciano Bozzo has held the directorship
for the Master Program in “Leadership and Strategic Planning”, a joint program
between the Italian Air Force and the University of Florence within which he
teaches International Politics and Strategic Studies. He has taught for the Master
Program in “Human Rights and Conflict Management” in Pisa at the Scuola
Superiore Sant’Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, as well as for the
Master Program in “Media and Communications”, at the University of Florence.
During the years 1998-2000, he was involved in various confidence and security
building activities in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, within the framework
of the Dayton Peace process, as the Assistant of the Personal Representative
of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairman
in office.
He also directed several research projects for the Military Centre for Strategic
Studies (CEMISS) of the Italian Joint Chiefs of Staff in Rome from the end of
the Eighties to the beginning of the present decade. In October 1996, he was
“team leader” in the mission organized by the Italian Foreign Office in order to
monitor the administrative elections in Albania. In 1990, he participated in the UN
Program of Fellowships on Disarmament of the UN Department for Disarmament
Affairs both in Geneva and at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Luciano Bozzo is currently a member of the International Institute for Strategic
Studies (IISS), in London, and, since its inception in 2001, is the Director of the
Centre for Strategic, International, and Entrepreneurial Studies (CSSII) at the
University of Florence. His research activity focuses primarily on strategy and
the strategic theory of action.
Professor Mark Clodfelter
Professor of Military Strategy at the National War
College, Washington, DC.
“Theory, Implementation, and the Future of Air
Power”
Dr. Mark Clodfelter is a Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College
in Washington, DC. A former U.S. Air Force officer, he served in radar assignments
in South Carolina and Korea during a 23-year Air Force career devoted largely to
teaching. He twice taught history at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and ultimately
served as the Academy’s director of military history. From 1991-1994, he taught
at Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) as one
of the school’s initial group of eight professors. He next became Professor of
Aerospace Studies and Commander of the Air Force ROTC detachment at the
University of North Carolina. He began teaching at the National War College in
1997, first in uniform, and since 2000 as a civilian professor. Mark has published
extensively on air power topics. He has won several writing awards, and many
of his publications are used as readings in professional military education
courses in the US and in NATO countries. He is the author of The Limits of
Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam (Free Press, 1989),
which U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Ronald Fogleman selected for the
Chief’s intermediate reading list in 1996. The RAF Chief of the Air Staff, Air
Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, placed the paperback edition of the book on his
“top ten” reading list in 2007. Mark is also the author of Beneficial Bombing:
The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945 (University of
Nebraska Press, 2011), a book analyzing how progressive ideals influenced the
American approach to strategic bombing before and during World War II, and
why progressive air power notions have endured to the present in the U.S. Air
Force. He has a BS in European History from the U.S. Air Force Academy
(1977), an MA in Military History from the University of Nebraska (1983), and
a PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(1987). He is a die-hard fan of North Carolina basketball, Air Force Academy
football, and St. Louis Cardinals baseball.
Dr. Colonel Phillip S. Meilinger, USAF (Ret)
Military Historian,
Former Dean of the School of Advanced Airpower
Studies
“Air Targeting: An Overview”
Phillip S. Meilinger served 30 years in the US Air Force as a command pilot, staff
officer and educator. He was an instructor pilot and flight examiner in Air Training
Command and then flew C-130 and HC-130 aircraft in Europe and the Pacific.
He was a staff officer in the Pacific Airlift Control Center and was an action officer
in the Pentagon.
He received a PhD in military history from the University of Michigan and taught
at the US Air Force Academy, Naval War College, and was Dean of the School
of Advanced Airpower Studies (now School of Advanced Air and Space Studies)
at Maxwell AFB. Upon retirement from the Air Force is worked as a defense
analyst in the Washington DC area.
He is the author of ten books and over 100 articles on military and aviation
theory, history and operations. His most recent book is Bomber: The Formation
and Early Years of Strategic Air Command, published Edwin Mellen and Air
University Press in 2013. He is currently working on a book dealing with Airpower
in modern war.
Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth
Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments
Keynote Speaker of the 2nd Session
“Air Power Comes of Age: The Maturation of
Aerial Warfare in the Late 20th Century”
Benjamin S. Lambeth is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic
and Budgetary Assessments, an independent, nonprofit public policy research
institute established in Washington, D.C. in 1983 to promote innovative thinking
and debate about national security strategy, defense planning, and military
investment strategies and options. He assumed this position in July 2011 after
a 37-year career as a Senior Research Associate at the RAND Corporation.
His areas of professional interest include strategy, international security,
defense planning, force development, air campaign assessment, and air and
space doctrine, operations and training. An internationally recognized expert on
military aviation and air warfare, he has conducted research and lectured widely
on these subjects, including at all of the U.S. senior military service schools. He
also has written more than 70 books, articles, and professional studies on air
power and other defense-related matters.
A civil-rated pilot, Dr. Lambeth has flown or flown in more than 40 different
fighter, bomber, attack, mobility, surveillance, and trainer aircraft types with the
U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, as well as with the Royal Air Force,
Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Netherlands Air
Force, Royal Norwegian Air Force, German Luftwaffe, Republic of Korea Air
Force, Finnish Air Force, and Israeli Air Force. He also has attended the USAF’s
Ballistic Missile Staff Course, Tactical Fighter Weapons and Tactics Course, and
Combined Force Air Component Commander Course, as well as the Aerospace
Defense Command’s Senior Officers’ Course, Air Force Space Command’s
Senior Leaders’ Course, and portions of Navy Fighter Weapons School
(TOPGUN) and the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor’s Course.
In 1988, he received initial qualification training and a front-seat checkout in the
F/A-18 Hornet. In December 1989, he became the first U.S. citizen to fly the
Soviet MiG-29 fighter and the first Westerner invited to fly a combat aircraft of
any type inside Soviet airspace since the end of World War II.
In 1985 and 1986, Dr. Lambeth served on the Board of Directors of the Center
for Advanced Airmanship at General Electric Company. He also served on
the editorial board of Orbis from 1985 to 1990 and for a time directed RAND’s
International Security and Defense Policy Program. In 1996, he took a fourday deployment in USS Atlanta (SSN-712) to observe prospective commanding
officer training in nuclear fast attack submarine-on-submarine operations. In
1998, he was a participant-observer in the Mission Employment Phase of USAF
Weapons School Class 98A at Nellis AFB, Nevada. In 2008, he was appointed
by the Secretary of Defense to serve as a member of the Board of Visitors of
Air University. In addition, he currently serves on the editorial advisory boards
of Strategic Studies Quarterly, Air and Space Power Journal, and the Journal
of Slavic Military Studies. He remains an adjunct member of RAND’s senior
research staff, holds a Top Secret/SCI security clearance, and is proficient in
Russian, German, and French.
EDUCATION
1965 Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Political Science, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1967 Master of Arts degree with Distinction in Government, Georgetown
University
1985 Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Harvard University
PAST WORK HISTORY
1975-2011 Senior Research Associate, RAND Corporation 1973-1974 Senior
Analyst, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency 1972-1973
Resident Scholar, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, Germany
1971-1972 Teaching Fellow in Government, Harvard University 1971-1973
Graduate Research Associate, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
1966-1969 Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses 1965-1966
Research Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
HONORS AND AWARDS
1967 Invited to membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science
honorary fraternity 1991 Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study and
Conference Center, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy 2001 Recipient of the Air Force
Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award in Arts and Letters
2002 Elected an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians, the national
fraternity of U.S. military pilots
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Nuclear Proliferation and Soviet Arms Control Policy,” Orbis, Fall 1969
“Deterrence in the MIRV Era,” World Politics, January 1972 Selective Nuclear
Operations in American and Soviet Strategic Policy, RAND Corporation,
December 1976 “The Political Potential of Soviet Equivalence,” International
Security, Fall 1979 “Soviet Strategic Conduct and the Prospects for Stability,”
in The Future of Strategic Deterrence, IISS, 1980 “Uncertainties for the
Soviet War Planner,” International Security, Winter 1982-83 “Pitfalls in Force
Planning: Structuring America’s Tactical Air Arm,” International Security, Fall
1985 “Moscow’s Lessons from the 1982 Lebanon Air War,” in War in the Third
Dimension, Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1986 “Theater Forces,” in American Defense
Annual 1987-88, Lexington Books, 1987 “The Kremlin and SDI,” Foreign Affairs,
Spring 1988 “The Outlook for Tactical Air Power in the Decade Ahead,” in Air
Power, Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1988 From Farnborough to Kubinka: An American
MiG-29 Experience, RAND Corporation, 1991 “What the Russians Learned from
the Gulf War,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, October 5, 1992 “Flying the
Flogger,” Flight International, February 23, 1994 “Russia’s Wounded Military,”
Foreign Affairs, March-April 1995 “The Uses and Abuses of Air Power,” Wall
Street Journal, July 27, 1995 “To Dominate the Skies: Why America Continues
to Need the F-22,” Armed Forces Journal, November 1995 “The Technology
Revolution in Air Warfare,” Survival, Spring 1997
“Bounding the Air Power Debate,” Strategic Review, Fall 1997. “Air Power, Space
Power, and Geography,” The Journal of Strategic Studies, June/September
1999 “Why Submariners Should Talk to Fighter Pilots,” The Submarine Review,
October 1999
Russia’s Air Power in Crisis, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999 The
Transformation of American Air Power, Cornell University Press, 2000
NATO’s Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment, RAND
Corporation, 2001 “The Air Force Renaissance,” in The Air Force, Hugh Lauter
Levin Associates, 2002 Mastering the Ultimate High Ground: Next Steps in the
Military Uses of Space, RAND Corporation, 2003
Singapore’s Combat Aircraft Competition, King’s College London, January 2004
American Carrier Air Power at the Dawn of a New Century, RAND Corporation,
2005 Air Power against Terror: America’s Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom,
RAND Corporation, 2005 “A Transformed U. S. Air Force at 60,” in United States
Air Force: Founding Centennial and 60th Anniversary, 2007 Combat Pair: The
Evolution of Air Force-Navy Integration in Strike Warfare, RAND Corporation,
2007 “Air Power in a Nutshell,” in Global Strategic Assessment 2009, National
Defense University Press, 2009
“Reflections on the Balkan Air Wars,” Air Power History, Spring 2010
“Air Power, Space Power, and Cyber Power,” Joint Force Quarterly, First Quarter,
2011 Air Operations in Israel’s War against Hezbollah, RAND Corporation, 2011
Airpower at 18,000’: The Indian Air Force in the Kargil War, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, 2012 “Israel’s War in Gaza: A Paradigm of Effective
Military Learning and Adaptation,” International Security, Fall 2012 “Lessons
from Modern Warfare,” Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2013. The Unseen War:
Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein, Naval Institute Press,
2013
AERONAUTICAL BACKGROUND
Nearly 500 hours of combined military flight experience in the T-33, T-37 (left
seat), T-38 (front seat), F-100, F-101, F-104 (front seat), F-105, F-106, FB-111
(left seat), F-111C (left seat), F-4C/D/E/F, RF-4, F-5B/F (front seat), F-14 (two
traps in USS Kitty Hawk), F-15B/D/E, F-16B/D, F/A-18B (front seat), F/A-18D/F,
Mirage IIID/5B, Kfir TC-2, TA-4, EA-6B, TA-7C, A-7K, TAV-8B, A-37, CT-114,
T-2C, Alpha Jet, Aermacchi MB 326H, PC-9 (front seat), T-50, MiG-21 (front
seat), MiG-23 (front seat), MiG-29, Su-30, Hawk T1/127, Harrier T4, Tornado
GR1T/GR4, Jaguar T2, Typhoon T3, EMB-312 Tucano (front seat), and U-2.
Also T-6C and AT-6 (both front seat), T-28B (front seat), T-34A (front seat), AH1W, OV-10, B-52H, B-1B (left seat), Canberra T4, KC-135A (left seat), XV-15
(left seat), C-17 (left seat), C-47 (left seat), C-130, C-131, E-3 AWACS, Valmet
Redigo L-90 TP, and Wright B Flyer replica, plus high g-tolerance centrifuge
training, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, and U.S. Parachute Association
B License with 44 jumps (34 free-fall).
Major General Rubén Carlos García Servert
Commander, NATO Combined Air Operations
Center Torrejón (CAOC TJ)
Chairman of the 2nd Session
Major General Servert is the Commander of NATO’s Combined Air Operation
Center at Torrejón Air Base, Spain.
Born on 18th April 1958 in Madrid, he joined the Air Force Academy in 1975 and
his first assignment was the 31st Wing at Zaragoza, where he served as a Pilot
in the period from 1981 to 1985. He continued to serve in different Air Force Units
until 1995, when he was assigned to the Air Warfare School as Head of Strategy
& International Affairs Department.
In 1996, he became Air Attaché to the Embassy of Spain in Paris; then in 1999
he was assigned to the Cabinet of the Minister of Defense as Counselor. Later
on, in 2005, he was nominated Commandant of the Air Force Academy.
In the period 2009-2010, he was the Commander of Kabul Airport (Afganistan).
Once promoted to Brigadier General, he was assigned to the Air Force Staff
– General Secretary as Chief of International Affairs, until he was promoted to
Major General in late 2012 and reached his current assignment as Commander
CAOC TJ in early 2013.
During his career, he has joined different NATO/UN Operations as aircrew:
KFOR, ONUSAL, ONUCA and UNPROFOR (ex-Yugoslavia), and got over 6000
flying hours as a pilot.
His military education includes Navigator Course (Initial and Advanced) USAF,
Defense Attachés Course, NATO TACEVAL Evaluator, NATO Defense College
and Flag Officers Course. He speaks fluently English, French and German
languages.
He has been awarded the Great Cross of the Royal and Military Order of San
Hermenegildo, Great Cross of the Air Force Merit, Cross of Naval Merit, Cross
of the Guardia Civil Merit as well as foreign decorations: Knight of the Legion
d´Honneur of France, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Santos-Dumont Merit Medal of
Brazilian Air Force.
Major General Servert is the author of several articles and papers: IEEE Opinion
Paper no. 3/2010, “An Insight of Afghanistan: A Chronicle of Spanish Leadership
in Kabul Airport”, and “NATO Strategic Concept, a Spanish point of view”, among
other; and achieved the Bachelors & Masters Degrees in Laws and Political
Sciences.
He is married and has 2 sons and 2 daughters.
Brigadier General Dr. Ahmet Cural
Commander of Turkish Air Force NCO College
and Air Specialty Schools,
Former Dean of Turkish Air Force Academy
Speaker in the 2nd Session
“The Vital Role Of Air Power In The Struggle Of
A Nation’s Liberty: The Great Offensive In The
War Of Turkish Independence Case”
Brigadier General Ahmet CURAL was born in 1963 in Bafra/Samsun/Turkey. After
completed his high school education in Bafra, he entered to Air Force Academy
in 1982. Upon graduated from Air Force Academy in 1986 as Lieutenant, he
was assigned to Air Technical Schools Command for his “Officer Basic Training”.
After his Officer Basic Branch Training at Air Defense School he was assigned
to his first duty to 3rd Air Force Base Command/Konya as an air defense officer.
In 1996, he entered to Air Force War College. After a two-year training, he was
assigned to General Staff HQ as a staff officer. In 1999, he was assigned to
Turkish Air Force HQ - Operation Division as plannig officer.
Between 2000-2002, he was assigned to permanent abroad duty to USA and
worked as “Exchange Officer” on Keesler AFB, Missisippi.
In 2002, upon completed his abroad duty, he was assigned to 4th Air Force Base
Command and a year later, to Air Force HQ General Secretariat.
In 2005, he was selected for “Master Education” program in National Defense
University, USA. After he completed his study on National Security Strategies
in his master program he was assigned to Air Force HQ as Scientific Decision
Support Division Manager.
Between 2007-2011, he worked as the Dean of Air Force Academy, Istanbul.
In August 2011, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to Air
Technical Schools Command. Since then, he has still been working as NCO
College and Air Services Schools Commander.
Brigadier General CURAL has two Master Degrees on “International Relations”
at Istanbul University and “National Security Strategies” at Air Defense
University,USA; and a doctorate on “International Relations” at Social Science
Faculty, Ankara University.
Brigadier General Ahmet CURAL is married to Mrs. Hafize CURAL and has two
daughters.
Colonel Professor John Andreas Olsen
Deputy Director General in the Norwegian Ministry
of Defence,
Visiting Professor of Operational Art and Tactics at
the Swedish National Defence College
“The Pursuit of Victory Through Airpower”
Colonel John Andreas Olsen is a deputy director general in the Norwegian
Ministry of Defence and a visiting professor of operational art and tactics at the
Swedish National Defence College. He was the deputy commander and chief of
the NATO Advisory Team at NATO Headquarters, Sarajevo, from 2009 to 2012.
His previous assignments include tours as dean of the Norwegian Defence
University College and head of its division for strategic studies.
Colonel Olsen is a graduate of the German Command and Staff College and has
served both as liaison officer to the German Operational Command in Potsdam
and as military assistant to the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.
He has a doctorate in history and international relations from De Montfort
University, a master’s degree in contemporary literature from the University of
Warwick, and a master’s degree in English from the University of Trondheim.
Professor Olsen is the author of Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm (2003) and
John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power (2007); co-author
of Destination NATO: Defence Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003 2013
(2013); editor of On New Wars (2006), A History of Air Warfare (2010), Global Air
Power (2011), Air Commanders (2012) and European Air Power (2014); and coeditor of The Evolution of Operational Art: From Napoleon to the Present (2011)
and The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present (2012).
Professor James Corum
Dean of the Baltic Defence College
“The Origins of Air Power Thought 100 Years
Ago”
Dr. James S. Corum (BA, Gonzaga University; MA, Brown University; MLitt,
Oxford University; PhD, Queen’s University) was a professor U.S. Army
Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth from 2005-2008. He
was a professor at the USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies, an elite
course for USAF strategists, at USAF Air University. He is a retired US Army
Reserve lieutenant colonel and served in Iraq in 2004. Dr. Corum was a visiting
fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2005. Dr. Corum, a retired lieutenant
colonel in the Army Reserve, is a graduate of Army Command and General Staff
College and Air War College.
Dr. Corum is author of ten books on military history, counterinsurgency and more
than 70 major articles and book chapters on military history subjects. He is the
author of “The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform”
(University Press of Kansas, 1992), “The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air
War, 1918–1940” (University Press of Kansas, 1997), and (with Richard Muller)
“The Luftwaffe’s Way of War: German Air Force Doctrine, 1911–1945” (Nautical
and Aviation Publishing Co., 1998). Dr. Corum also wrote (with Wray R. Johnson)
“Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists” (University Press of
Kansas, 2003) and “Training Indigenous Forces in Counterinsurgency: A Tale of
Two Insurgencies” (the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College,
2007). Fighting the War on Terror, concerns counterinsurgency strategy and was
published by Zenith Press in February 2007. Bad Strategies: How Great Powers
Fail in Counterinsurgency was published by Zenith Press in 2008. In 2011 Dr.
Corum edited and co-authored Rearming Germany (Brill, Leiden), a study of
Germany in the early Cold War. In 2012 he edited the translation and revision of
the First World War Encyclopedia (2 vols) by Brill Press.
Dr. Andrij Kharuk
Chief of Department of Humanitarian Sciences at
the Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi Army Academy
“East Front Close Air Support: Attempt of
Comparative Analysis”
Andrij Kharuk was born in September, 22, 1972 in Novovolynsk city, Volynskij
region, Ukraine. In 1994 graduated from the Faculty of History of the Volyn
State University . Worked as a lecturer in social sciences Novovolynsij
Electromechanical College.Since 2002 he worked as a senior lecturer , then as a
docent at the National University “Lviv Politechnic”. Since 2012 worked as a Chief
of Department of Humanitarian Sciences at the Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyi
Army Academy, Lviv.
In 2000 he defended his dissertation (Ph.D.), specialty “military history” on the
topic “Ukrainian Air Force in 1917-1921”. In 2011 he defended his dissertation on
a rank “Doctor of historical sciences” on the topic “Aircraft industry in Ukraine as
part of the military-industrial complex in 1910 - 1980.”
Author of more than 200 publications on the military history. Sphere of scientific
interests - military history of the twentieth century in Ukraine, the history of the
aviation industry, as well as the history of military use of aviation in World War II.
General Frank Gorenc
Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe
Commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa,
Commander Allied Air Command, Ramstein Air
Base, Germany
Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre,
Kalkar, Germany
Keynote Speaker of the 3rd Session
How Air Power Has Become An Independent
Service
“Independent Air Forces in the 21st Century”
Gen. Frank Gorenc is Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, U.S.
Air Forces Africa, Commander Allied Air Command, headquartered at Ramstein
Air Base, Germany; and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar,
Germany. He is responsible for Air Force activities, conducted through 3rd Air
Force, in an area of operations covering more than 19 million square miles. This
area includes 104 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and
the Arctic, Atlantic and Indian oceans, and possesses more than a quarter of
the world’s population and generates more than a quarter of the world’s gross
domestic product.
General Gorenc was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He earned his commission
in 1979 as a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has
commanded a fighter squadron, an operations group, two wings, the Air Force
District Washington, and a component Numbered Air Force. General Gorenc has
served in numerous positions at Air Combat Command, the Air Staff, the Joint
Staff, and at U.S. European Command/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
Europe. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the Assistant Vice Chief
of Staff and Director, Air Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
The general is a command pilot with more than 4,500 flight hours.
EDUCATION
1979 Distinguished graduate, Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering,
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
1983 Squadron Officer School, by correspondence
1986 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence
1986 NATO Tactical Leadership Program, Jever AB, West Germany
1988 Distinguished graduate, U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis
AFB, Nev.
1989 Master of Aeronautical Science degree, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University, Daytona Beach, Fla.
1994 Air War College, by seminar
1995 Master of Science degree in national security strategy, National War
College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
2006 Joint Force Air Component Commander Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2007 Capstone Flag Officer Course, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J.
McNair, Washington, D.C.
2008 Joint Flag Officer Warfighter Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2008 Defense Policy Seminar, Elliott School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2009 Cyberspace Operations Executive Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2011 Pinnacle General and Flag Officer Course, National Defense University,
Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. August 1979 - December 1980, student, undergraduate pilot training, Vance
AFB, Okla.
2. December 1980 - April 1984, T-38A instructor pilot and flight examiner, 25th
Flying Training Squadron, Vance AFB, Okla.
3. April 1984 - August 1984, student, F-15 Replacement Training Unit, Luke AFB,
Ariz.
4. August 1984 - April 1988, F-15C aircraft commander, flight examiner and flight
commander, 525th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Bitburg AB, West Germany
5. April 1988 - October 1991, F-15C aircraft commander and Chief, Weapons
and Tactics, 94th Fighter Squadron, Langley AFB, Va.
6. October 1991 - March 1992, Chief, Weapons and Tactics, 1st Fighter Wing,
Langley AFB, Va.
7. March 1992 - June 1992, aide to the Commander, Tactical Air Command,
Langley AFB, Va.
8. June 1992 - September 1993, aide to the Commander, Air Combat Command,
Langley AFB, Va.
9. September 1993 - August 1994, Chief, Operational Officer Assignments
Branch, ACC, Langley AFB, Va.
10. August 1994 - September 1995, student, National War College, Fort Lesley
J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
11. September 1995 - January 1996, operations officer, 390th Fighter Squadron,
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho
12. January 1996 - June 1997, Commander, 390th Fighter Squadron, Mountain
Home AFB, Idaho
13. June 1997 - January 1998, special assistant to Operations Group Commander,
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho
14. January 1998 - December 2000, Chief, Studies, Analysis and Gaming
Division, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
15. December 2000 - August 2002, Commander, 18th Operations Group, Kadena
AB, Japan
16. August 2002- September 2003, special assistant to U.S. European Command/
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Mons, Belgium
17. September 2003 - June 2005, Commander, 1st Fighter Wing, Langley AFB,
Va.
18. June 2005 - July 2006, Commander, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, Balad
AB, Iraq
19. August 2006 - June 2007, Director, Operational Plans and Joint Matters,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Air, Space and Information Operations, Plans and
Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
20. June 2007 - August 2008, Commander, Air Force District of Washington,
Andrews AFB, Md.
21. August 2008 - August 2009, Director of Air and Space Operations, Air Combat
Command, Langley AFB, Va.
22. August 2009 - March 2012, Commander, 3rd Air Force, Ramstein AB,
Germany
23. April 2012 - August 2013, Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff,
Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
24. August 2013 - present, Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander,
U.S. Air Forces in Africa; Commander, Air Component Command, headquartered
at Ramstein Air Base, Germany; and Director, Joint Air Power Competency
Centre, Kalkar, Germany
SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS
1. January 1998 - December 2000, Chief, Studies, Analysis and Gaming Division,
Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., as a lieutenant colonel and colonel
2. August 2002 - September 2003, special assistant to U.S. European Command/
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Mons, Belgium, as a colonel
3. June 2005 - July 2006, Commander, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, Balad AB,
Iraq, as a colonel and brigadier general
FLIGHT INFORMATION
Rating: Command pilot
Flight hours: More than 4,500
Aircraft flown: T-38A, F-15C, MQ-1B, UH-1N and C-21
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster
Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster
Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters
Airman’s Medal
Bronze Star Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Aerial Achievement Medal with silver oak leaf cluster
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Air Force Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster
Combat Readiness Medal with four oak leaf clusters
National Defense Service Medal with bronze star
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Southwest Asia Service Medal
Iraq Campaign Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Air and Space Campaign Medal
NATO Medal
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
2006 Joseph A. Moller Trophy, Air Combat Command’s Outstanding Wing
Commander
EFFECTIVE DATES OF OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant May 30, 1979
First Lieutenant May 30, 1981
Captain May 30, 1983
Major June 1, 1990
Lieutenant Colonel March 1, 1994
Colonel Sept. 1, 1998
Brigadier General Oct. 1, 2005
Major General Feb. 1, 2008
Lieutenant General Aug. 24, 2009
General Aug. 2, 2013
(Current as of August 2013)
Mr. Sebastian Cox
Head of the Air Historical Branch (RAF) in the UK
Ministry of Defence
Chairman of the 3rd Session
Service
Sebastian Cox is the Head of the Air Historical Branch (RAF) in the UK Ministry
of Defence and one of the three Co-Directors of the Royal Air Force Centre for
Air Power Studies. He is an elected Trustee of the international Society for
Military History and a member of the Editorial the Royal Air Force Air Power
Review. He is also a member of the British Commission for Military History
and serves on the Committee of the Royal Air Force Historical Society and the
Research and Education Board of the Royal Air Force Museum.
He is the
historical advisor to the recently opened Bomber Command Memorial and is a
trustee of two charities.
He was educated at King Edward’s School, Bath, and is a graduate of Warwick
University [BA (Hons) History] and Kings College London [MA(Hons) War
Studies]. He was curator of documents at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon,
before joining the Air Historical Branch as a researcher in 1984, and then serving
successively as a Historian and the Deputy Head before being appointed as
Head of the Air Historical Branch in 1996. He is the first person to hold that post
without having previous commissioned military service.
He was appointed as one of the three founding Co-Directors of the RAF Centre
for Air Power Studies when it was first established in 2007. He has written widely
on the history of the RAF and air power, and has edited two book series related
to the field. He has also lectured on air power and related topics to military and
civilian audiences on four continents, including Military Colleges in the UK, USA,
Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Norway and Kuwait.
Major General H. Hüseyin Demirarslan
Director of Personnel Department in Turkish Air
Force
Speaker in the 3rd Session
Service
“Road to Independence: Turkish Air Force”
Maj. Gen. Hasan Huseyin DEMIRARSLAN was born in 1962 in Canakkale. After
completing high school education in Canakkale, he graduated from Turkish Air
Force Academy in 1982.
Upon graduating from 2nd Main Jet Base (MJB) Flight Training School as
fighter pilot in 1983, he was assigned to 5th MJB, Merzifon, where he served
as fighter pilot till 1989. In 1992, he was assigned to Pilot Training Base as an
instructor pilot for 3 years. He had a master degree from USA Air Force Institute
of Technology (AFIT) in Ops. Research in 1992. After completing F-16 training in
1993, he was assigned to 9th MJB, BALIKESIR as F-16 fighter pilot. He attended
Air Staff College in 1995 and graduated in 1997.
He served at 4th MJB as Operations Section Head in 1998 and at Turkish Air
Force (TURAF) Headquarters Personel Division as Assignment Project Officer
in 1999. He then assigned to 4th MJB again as 143th Sq. Commander and
served for 1 year. Between 2000 and 2003 he served as NATO Turkish Military
Representative Deputy Air Planning Officer in Belgium. He served at TURAF
Headquarters again between 2003 and 2004 as Excercises Branch Head,
studied at Air War College in 2004 and assigned to 3rd MJB as Operations
Commander for one year. Then he served as Secretary General of TURAF in
2005 and promoted to Brigadier General in 2006 and assigned to Chief of Plans
and Programs Division. Between 2007 and 2009 he was the Turkish Military
Attaché to USA, then he became the Commander of the 9th MJB, Balikesir in
2009.
In 2010, he was promoted to Major General and served as the 2nd MJB, pilot
training base, Commander for two years. As of August 2012, Gen. DEMIRARSLAN
assumed the duty of the Chief of Personnel of TURAF. He has more than 3500
hours flying time in different aircraft. Gen. DEMIRARSLAN is married to Mrs.
Mehtap DEMIRARSLAN, has a daughter and a son.
Major General Junichi Araki
Director of General Affairs Department in Joint
Staff
Service
“The Struggling Pursuit for Independent
Airpower Before and After the Pacific War”
Major Genral Junichi Araki was born in 1961. He graduated from National Defence
Academy in 1983. As of 2013, Major General Araki is the current Director of
General Affairs Department in Joint Staff.
SERVICE CAREER
May 1986
2nd Air Wing 203 Fighter Sq
Aug 1990
4th Air wing 21 Fighter Sq
Apr 1992
USAFA exchange officer
Jul 1995
8th Air Wing 304Fighter Sq
Aug 1996
Air Staff Office
Sep 1997
Command and Staff Course
May 1998
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Dec 1999
Center of International Studies, Harvard University
Aug 2000
Air Staff Office
Sep 2002
National Institute for Defense Studies
Aug 2003
Chief, Manpower and Organization Section, Air Staff Office
Mar 2006
Hq, Southwestern Composite Air Division
Jul 2007
Head, Operations Division, Air Staff Office
Mar 2009
Commander, 7th Air Wing
Dec 2011
Commander, 1st Tactical Airlift Wing
Mar 2013
Present Assignment
Brigadier General Basilio Di Martino
Technical Deputy Director of the Information
Technology, Communications and Advanced
Technologies Directorate of the General
Secretariat of Defence
Service
“From Air Corps to Air Force: 1915-1923 The
road to independence of the Italian Air Force”
General Inspector Basilio Di Martino was born in Roma in 1957. He entered the
Air Force in 1975 as a cadet of the Air Force Academy. Having graduated in
Electronic Engineering in 1981, he was then posted to the test centre (Reparto
Sperimentale Volo) as a System Test Engineer dealing mostly with avionics and
armament systems, having been qualified as such through the General Duties
Aerosystems Course at RAF Cranwell (UK) in 1982-1983.
At the Tect Centre he held several positions, moving up to lieutenant colonel
and technical director. In 1995 he was then assigned to the Air Staff Logistics
Department, where he was involved with the Tornado and C-130J programs as
well as with several avionics and electronic warfare projects.
In 1997-1998 he attended the Air Warfare School and the Joint Staff College,
where he served also as a tutor for one year. Having been assigned again at the
Air Staff, he was promoted colonel in 2000 and until 2004 was in charge of the
office dealing with space and unmanned and remotely piloted systems. From
2004 to 2011 he was at the Logistic Command, in the aircraft maintenance and
support division, being responsible for some aircraft fleets as well as avionics
and armament systems.
Brigadier General in 2011, he attended the Defence High Studies Institute
and since 2012 holds his current assignment as Technical Deputy Director of
the Information Technology, Communications and Advanced Technologies
Directorate of the General Secretariat of Defence.
General Inspector in 2013, beside a degree in Electronic Engineering, he has a
degree in Political Sciences and a Master in Global Strategy and Security. He
is a keen amateur historian and has published many articles and several books
about the history of the Italian Air Force and the history of the Great War.
He is married and has two sons.
Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail, Pakistan Air
Force (Ret)
Air Power Strategist,
Author of “Great Air Battles of Pakistan Air Force”
Service
“How Air Power Transformed into an
Independent Service and Contemporary
Challenges to its Independence”
I was commissioned as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force in 1975, while also
earning a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautics. For the first twenty years of service,
I performed flying duties on fighter and trainer aircraft; this initial phase of service
culminated in command of a fighter Squadron and a fighter Wing.
Subsequently, assignments came to be diversified and were related to operational
planning, organisational management, administration, academic research,
projects oversight and human resource management. Some of these varied staff
and command assignments included the posts of Director of Operations at Air
Headquarters, Deputy Commandant Air War College and Base Commander of
a fighter base.
During mid-service, I underwent a course at the Air War College, completing a
Master’s degree in War Studies. Later, another course at the National Defence
College culminated in a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies.
I was afforded the opportunity to undertake study tours of training institutions and
industrial-military complexes, attend courses and conducted evaluation studies
in China, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Laos, Oman, Poland, Qatar, South
Africa, Sweden, Syria, USA and Zimbabwe. Additionally, holiday visits to India,
Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and
UK have helped gain a kaleidoscopic perspective of these countries’ militaries,
as well as the people and places.
After retirement from the PAF in 2005, I have been writing defence related
articles in various local and international magazines. My book, ‘Great Air Battles
of Pakistan Air Force’ was published in 2005. Another book, ‘Indo-Pak Air War
1971’ is expected to be published shortly. I am on the visiting faculty of the
PAF Air War College since the last five years. During the current year, I have
been on the panel of United States Naval Postgraduate School for seminars
and workshops on regional security. I was a participant in two of their recent
workshops on ‘Conflict Escalation Dynamics in South Asia’ and ‘Utility of Tactical
Nuclear Weapons’.
Colonel Oscar Luis Aranda Durañona,
Argentine Air Force (Ret)
Director of Historical Studies of the Argentine Air
Force.
Service
“How Argentine Air Power Has Become An
Independent Service in 1945: Domestic Needs,
Foreigner Influences”
Military Aviator in fighter specialty, Veteran of Malvinas War, Diploma in Staff (Air
War College AAF), Di-ploma in Air and Space Systems (Aeronautical University
Institute), Graduate and doctoral student in History (University of El Salvador).
Between 1961 and 1992, he flew 5,000 hours, almost all in fighters’ planes.
Highlights posts: Chief of VI Air Brigade (1990-1991); Air Attached to Argentine
Embassy in France, Belgium, Holland and Israel (1988-1989); Chief of Air
Defense Sector (Malvinas Islands) during South Atlantic conflict in 1982.
Since October 2000, serves as Director of Historical Studies of the Argentina
Air Force. Is member of the Ar-gentina Academy of History, of the Institute of
Argentine Military History, also is member corresponding of the Academy of
Aeronautical History of Uruguay and Group of Military History of the Argentine
National Academy of History.
Books he authored
He has published two (2) fictional novels. Three (3) biographies. One (1) doctrinal
essay. Co-authored three (3) books about Argentina Air Force history. Last work,
2012: The flight of the Condor, 1912-2012; commemora-tive book of 100 years
of Argentina Military Aviation.
Decorations
National Congress for the participation in Malvinas war.
Order of Merit from the Government of France.
Professor Yücel Altunbaşak
President of The Scientific and Technological
Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Keynote Speaker of the 4th Session
The Contribution Of R&D And Think Tanks To
Air And Space Power
“The Contribution of Space, Aviation and R&D
Studies to Technological Development”
Born in Kayseri in 1971, Professor Altunbaşak graduated from the Department
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, in 1992.
After that, he studied at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Rochester, New York, where he received his MS and PhD
degrees.
In 1996, while employed at Hewlett-Packard’s Palo Alto Laboratories in Silicon
Valley, California, as a research engineer, he was appointed as a consultant
assistant professor at Stanford University. After three years in Silicon Valley,
he returned to academic life as assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of
Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he
received his full-professorship in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, he served as
the Rector of TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Turkey. Since
August 2011, he is serving as the 9th and current President of The Scientific and
Technological Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).
Professor Altunbaşak has supervised 19 PhD students and is author of more than
190 papers and 50 patents/patent applications. In addition to his academic work,
Professor Altunbaşak has continuously worked in collaboration with industry.
He licensed and successfully prototyped a MPEG and processing device for a
satellite and cable TV company. He initiated and was the driving force behind
an image processing technology called ‘Pixellence’, which received the Special
Jury Award of the Turkish Industry and Business Association, while working as a
senior advisor to the company Vestel.
Professor Altunbaşak has received numerous awards and memberships, and
also he has served as editor of several leading research journals and chaired
many industrial associations.
Major General Khalid Abdulla Mubarak Al Buainnain Al Mazrouei
Chairman of Baynuna Group for Companies
Management,
Formal UAE Air Force and Air Defence Commander
Chairman of the 4th Session
Air And Space Power
General Khalid undertook various positions and posts along 32 years career in
UAE Air Force and Air Defense (AFAD), which led him to take the position of
UAE AFAD Commander General Khalid participated in both Gulf Wars.
In addition to the key posts he commanded, Gen. Khalid directs, manages, lead
Multi-Billion programs for UAE government in the following:
- Aircraft/ Systems Acquisition Programs (France, USA, Russia.....)
- Multi-Nations New Research and Development Unified Projects
(Eastern-Western Companies, Multi-European Companies).
- Mega programs in System Integration and System Engineering.
- Communication Program (Airborne and Land Based Secured Network Systems)
- Advance Information Technology and IT Security Program.
- Remote Sensing, Space Program and Command and Control Program.
- Creation and Development of first R&D Faculties in UAE.
- Creation and Development of First Advanced Flight Test Centres in UAE.
- Creation and Development of First Advanced Digital war gaming and simulation
centres in UAE.
- Creation and Development of First Advanced Air War Centres in UAE.
- Support UAE Academic Institutions/ Universities in Applied Research Program.
- Financing, Controlling and Managing and Financial Engineering of National
and Multi-National Mega Projects.
General Khalid possesses large experience and knowledge, all of which provided
an added value in his managing, organizing, and controlling UAE major and Mega
programs. He acted as a strong contributor in the build up and consolidation of
excellent relationships between the worldwide industrial figures and the UAE
higher authorities through his worldwide network connection. He demonstrated
as well as a strong leadership, Visionary and a wise team leader who acted with
competence and wisdom as:
• Program Director and Main Negotiator of contracts from Technical, Financial,
and Legal as well as National strategic contractual aspects like Offset and
Development Program.
• Defining the requirements, concept definition, defining the overall Concept of
Operation, Defining the System Engineering and bringing the right solutions
based on the Wide and wise vision he possesses.
General Khalid has become a well- known speaker for National as well as MultiNational Seminars, Conferences and Exhibitions and has gained innovative
concepts and system solution and approach in addition of his participation at
organizing of Regional and International Events, Seminars and Conferences in
UAE and he is Chairing one of well established Regional Think-Tank Institute for
Defense and Security research and Study.
General Khalid has received 25 awards and merits nationally, regionally and
internationally for his competence, integrity and wide spectrum of knowledge,
many from the industrialized Western nations who know him and consider him a
person of unique quality.
Currently, General Khalid is the Chairman of the board for his owned number of
companies focused mainly on business and Advanced Technology Development
and General Trading called Baynuna Group for Companies Management. And
have a Joint Venture Company with well recognized Companies, like French
Dassulte Aviation, Italian Electronica, and South African Denel Dynamic, Beside,
General Khalid is involved with Local and International recognized Companies
as a Senior Advisor and a Member of their Advisory Board.
Lieutenant General Joachim Wundrak
Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence
Centre
Commander, German Air Force Air Operations
Command
Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre
Uedem
Speaker in the 4th Session
Air And Space Power
“NATO Air Power - Quo vadis? ”
Joachim Wundrak, Lieutenant General, DEU AF, Executive Director, Joint Air
Power Competence Centre, Kalkar, Germany; Commander, German Air Force Air
Operations Command, Kalkar, Germany; Commander, Combined Air Operations
Centre Uedem, Uedem, Germany; Lieutenant General Wundrak holds a triplehatted position at Kalkar/Uedem, Germany.
As Commander, German Air Force Air Operations Command, he is responsible
for a unique German nucleus of staff that has the capability to execute operational
planning as well as command and control of Air Force Operations at the tactical
and operational levels.
As Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre at Uedem, he is responsible
for planning, directing, tasking and coordinating air operations of allocated forces
and NATO Integrated Air Defence assets.
As Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Lieutenant General
Wundrak supports the JAPCC Director as the Joint Air Advisor to Supreme Allied
Commander Transformation in order to facilitate Joint Air Power Transformation
at the strategic level.
Furthermore, Lieutenant General Wundrak has administrative control over the
National Air Policing Centre and the Space Situational Awareness Centre.
Lieutenant General Wundrak entered the Air Force in 1974. He trained in
Ground Defence before joining the ranks as a career pilot. Following numerous
postings in the flying community, to include Commander, Air Transport Wing 62
in Wunstorf, he was appointed to Branch Chief, and later, Deputy Chief of Staff
at the Federal Ministry of Defence until 2006.
From 2006 to 2008 Lieutenant General Wundrak was assigned as Deputy
Director, European Air Group at High Wycombe, UK followed by two tours in
operations as Chief of Staff, German EUFOR contingent and Deputy Chief of
Staff, Air ISAF. He was the Deputy Commander German Air Force Command
from July 2009 until he assumed command at Kalkar/Uedem in April 2012.
Lieutenant General Wundrak logged more than 3,000 flight hours in multiple
aircraft such as the B-33, B-90, Do 28, Transall C-160 and UH-1D Helicopter.
He was awarded the German Armed Forces Silver Cross of Honour and the
EUFOR Service Medal.
Lieutenant General Wundrak is married and has two children.
MILITARY CAREER
Oct 1974 Enlistment in the Bundeswehr, basic military training; German Air Force
(GAF) Training Regiment 2, Budel / Netherlands
1975 Ground defense serviceman / Air defense gunner / Section Leader, GAF
Training Regiment 2, Budel / Netherlands
1975 – 1976 Officer training at the GAF Officer School, Neubiberg
1976 – 1980 Studies in Electrical Engineering; Bundeswehr University, Munich
1980 – 1982 Transport aircraft pilot training; GAF Officer School, Fürstenfeldbruck;
Air Transport Wing 62, Bremen and Wunstorf
1982 – 1985 Do 28 transport aircraft pilot; Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf
1985 – 1986 Chief Instructor, Officers’ Course for Line Officer Candidates; GAF
Officer School, Furstenfeldbruck
1986 – 1988 Transall transport aircraft pilot; Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf
1988 – 1990 Participant in the 33rd General Staff Officers’ Course of the GAF;
Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg
1990 – 1992 Section Chief at the German Air Transport Command (GATCOM);
GATCOM A3a, Münster
1992 – 1994 Squadron Commander; Air Transport Wing 63, Rendsburg
1994 – 1995 Assistant Branch Chief at the Federal Ministry of Defense (FMOD);
FMOD Air Staff III 3, Bonn
1996 – 1998 Executive Officer of the Chief of Staff, German Air Force; FMOD, Bonn
1998 – 2000 Commander; Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf
2000 – 2002 German Liaison Officer; Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood
/ United Kingdom
2002 – 2004 Branch Chief at the Federal Ministry of Defense; FMOD Air Staff III 5, Bonn
2004 – 2006 Deputy Chief of Staff at the Federal Ministry of Defense; FMOD
Armed Forces Staff V, Bonn
2006 – 2008 Deputy Director European Air Group; High Wycombe / United Kingdom
2008 – 2009 01 Sep 2008 – 31 Mar 2009: Chief of Staff / Commander, German
Contingent EUFOR; Sarajevo / Butmir
2009 – 2012 Deputy Commander, German Air Force Command
2011 21.02.2011 – 07.12.2011 Deputy Chief of Staff Air ISAF Joint Command;
Kabul / Afghanistan
April 2012 Commander, German Air Force Air Operations Command, Kalkar /
Germany (until 30.06.2013)
Commander, German Air Operations Command, Kalkar / Germany (since 01.07.2013)
Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem, Uedem / Germany
Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar / Germany
PROMOTIONS
Brigadier General 01 Apr 2004
Major General 01 Jul 2009
Lieutenant General 01 Apr 2012
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS
Silver Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
EUFOR Service Medal
ISAF Service Medal
FLYING HOURS (FH):
More than 3,000 FH on the B-33, B-90, Do 28, Transall C-160 and Bell UH-1D aircraft types
Associate Professor Jong Kun Choi
Associate Professor at the Department of Political
Science and International Studies at Yonsei
University
Air And Space Power
“Between Autonomy and Dependence: Role
of Think Tank and R&D Institutions in South
Korea’s Air and Space Power”
Jong Kun Choi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science
and International Studies at Yonsei University. He is also Center Director of
Security Strategy for Aerospace Strategy and Technology Institute at Yonsei
University. He manages Korea’s oldest Air and Space Power Conference as
Chair of the Program and serves as member of the Advisory Board of the
Republic Korea’s Air Force for jet fighter acquisition and development. His official
homepage is at http://www.jongkunchoi.com.
He is member of the advisory council on the 6 Party Talks of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and Standing Member of Inter-Korean
Cooperation Committee for Incheon Metropolitan City. He is a fellow of the
Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria from 2011 and Research Associate
for East Asian Peace project at the Department of Peace Research at Uppsala
University, Sweden.
Professor Choi regularly appears as a commentator of Northeast Asian security
matters for CNN, Al Jazeera, CCTV, KBS and NHK. He also writes monthly
column for Kyunghyang Daily and Defense 21 Plus, South Korea’s leading
monthly magazine for defense issues. He also frequently contributes to Global
Times of China.
Professor Choi specializes in International Relations theories, Northeast Asian
security, political psychology and public opinions on national identity and foreign
policy attitudes. His academic articles have so far appeared in International
Security, Global Asia, Asian Perspective, Korea Journal of Defense Analysis,
Korea and World Politics, Korean Political Science Review, International
Relations of the Asia Pacific and Korean Journal of International Studies.
Before joining Yonsei University, Dr. Choi was Assistant Professor at the
University of North Korean Studies in Seoul (2008-2009), Brain Korea 21 Post
Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Yonsei University (20062008), Research Associate at the Mershon Center for International Security
Studies (2001-2006) and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, the
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Since 2008, he has been serving as a
member of the editorial committee for Asian Perspective. Dr. Choi received his
Ph.D from the Department of Political Science, the Ohio State University, in 2006
and his MA in Political Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 2000,
and his BA in Political Science from the University Of Rochester, NY in 1998.
Dr. Sanu Kainikara
Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air
Force at the Air Power Development Centre
Air And Space Power
Sanu Kainikara is the RAAF’s Air Power Strategist at the Air Power Development
Centre.
He is a former fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force (IAF) who retired voluntarily as a
Group Captain after 21 years of commissioned service. He has vast operational
flying experience in a number of modern fighter aircraft and has flown over 4,000
hours on fighter aircraft. He is operational on the MiG-21,-23,-25,-27, and MiG29 and has also flown the Jaguar and Hunter aircraft. Dr Kainikara is a Qualified
Flying Instructor (A2), a graduate and Directing Staff of the Fighter Weapons
School and was the Commanding Officer of an Operational fighter squadron.
Sanu was decorated is the recipient of the Air Force Cross and two Commendations
from the IAF Chief of Air Staff. He has also received the Royal Australian Air
Force Chief of Air Force’s Commendation.
After leaving active duty with the Indian Air Force he worked for four years as
the senior analyst of a US Training Team in the Middle East, specialising in
fighter operations, weapons and tactics, before migrating to Australia. He has
presented papers at a number of international conferences and published papers
on national security, strategy and air power in various international professional
journals. He is the author of ten books: Papers on Air Power (2006), Pathways
to Victory (2007), Red Air: Politics in Russian Air Power (2007), Australian
Security in the Asian Century (2008) A Fresh Look at Air Power Doctrine (2008),
Seven Perennial Challenges to Air Forces (2009), The Art of Air Power: Sun Tzu
Revisited (2010), At the Critical Juncture (2011), Essays on Air Power (2012),
The Bolt from the Blue (2013) and From Indus to Independence Volume I (2013).
He is the contributing editor of the book Friends in High Places (2009). He has
taught Aerospace Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
University, Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Fellow at University of New
South Wales in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr Kainikara is a graduate of the Indian National Defence Academy, Defence
Services Staff College and the College of Air Warfare. He holds two Bachelors
degrees (Strategic Studies and Aerospace Engineering) and a Master of Science
in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras. His PhD in
International Politics was awarded by the University of Adelaide. He is currently
pursuing doctoral studies on the topic of the Law of Armed Conflict and Military
Strategy at the ANU.
Dr. Brad Gladman
Strategic Analyst of Royal Canadian Air Force at
the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre
Air And Space Power
“Linking Strategy to Operations Using Air
Power Knowledge Development as a Catalyst”
Dr. Brad Gladman served as a pilot in the Canadian Forces before completing
Bachelor (history) and Master of Arts (history of air power and intelligence
during WW II) degrees at the University of Calgary. In 2001, Brad Gladman
received a PhD in military history from the University College London in 2001.
His PhD thesis dealt with intelligence and Anglo-American air support in the
North African campaigns during WW II. This work was published recently by
Palgrave Macmillan as Intelligence and Anglo-American Air Support in World
War Two: The Western Desert and Tunisia 1940-43 (2009). After returning to
Canada in 2001, Dr. Gladman taught a broad range of courses at University of
Calgary, including the history of World War Two, Espionage and the State, as
well as a number of war and society courses from the Medieval period through
to the Nuclear Age. Dr. Gladman has also taught courses on Canadian Military
History and the History of Science and Technology for the Royal Military College
of Canada, and has guest lectured at the United States Air Force Academy. His
other recent publications include articles on defence and security matters for
the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Intelligence and National Security,
Canadian Military History Journal, as well as a book chapter in Turning Points in
Air Power History.
Dr. Gladman joined the Department of National Defence 2003, his initial posting
being with the Directorate of Defence Analysis. In early 2005, Dr. Gladman was
named the defence academic representative on Chief of the Defence Staff Action
Team 1, whose mandate was to conduct a detailed analysis of the Command
and Control of the Canadian Forces, and to recommend changes. One of those
changes was the establishment of Canada Command, where Dr. Gladman
worked as a strategic analyst. As a result of the request from the former Deputy
Commander of NORAD, Dr. Gladman was posted to Colorado Springs where
he was the Team Leader for the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) Operational Research and Analysis team. While there he conducted
an historical analysis of the Canada-US Strategic Defence Relationship, a study
undertaken with the sponsorship of the NORAD Deputy Commander and the
Commander of Canada Command to provide a contextual backdrop for ongoing
discussions on the evolution of the Canada-US military-to-military relationship.
Dr. Gladman now provides analytical support for the Royal Canadian Air Force
at the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre.
Dr. Rebecca Grant
President of IRIS Independent Research,
Director of the Washington Security Forum
Air And Space Power
“Four Technologies for Future Air Warfare”
Dr. Rebecca Grant is President of IRIS Independent Research, a public-policy
research organization in Washington, DC. She is also a director of the Washington
Security Forum, a new non-profit encouraging research and discussion on how
national security connects to advanced science and technology topics, including
cyberspace, airpower, space, and energy resources.
Dr. Grant earned her Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of
Economics, then worked for RAND and the offices of the Secretary of the Air Force
and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. She founded IRIS Independent Research,
performing work on strategic planning for aerospace and government clients.
Recent projects include analysis of Tier 1 suppliers in the defense industrial
base for the US Air Force (Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition),
assessment of shaping and maritime influence for the US Navy (Fleet Forces
Command), and evaluation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
(ISR) recapitalization for industry clients. She is the author of major classified
reports for the USAF on subjects including Operation Noble Eagle, Operation
Anaconda and Operation Iraqi Freedom. For the Navy, she wrote Battle-Tested:
Carrier Aviation in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dr. Grant writes regularly for Air Force Magazine and briefed with Lt Gen Burt
Field (USAF A3/5) on long range strike at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in
February 2014. She served from 2008 to 2011 as the founding Director of AFA’s
Mitchell Institute.
She is a frequent guest speaker on airpower at venues ranging from Wall Street
to active-duty Air Force units. She has also appeared on TV as an expert on
airpower for ABC’s This Week in Defense with Vago Muradian, the Discovery
Channel’s Top Ten Military Machines, the History Channel, the Military Channel
and the Smithsonian.
She resides in the Washington, DC area with her husband, her young daughter,
her motorcycle and a Tennessee Walking Horse named Red.
Professor Banu Onaral
H.H.Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering
and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA
Founding Director of the School of Biomedical
Engineering Science and Health Systems.
Keynote Speaker of the 5th Session
Air Power And Society
“Air and Space Power as Drivers of Civilian
Innovation and Economic Development”
Banu Onaral is H. H. Sun Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical
Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. She received her BS and
MS in electrical engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in
1973 and 1974 respectively and earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Dr. Onaral joined the faculty of
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Biomedical
Engineering and Science Institute at Drexel University in 1981. Starting in 1995,
she led the strategic planning to transform the Biomedical Engineering and
Science Institute into a university-level interdisciplinary school. Since 1997, she
has served as the Founding Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering
Science and Health Systems.
Academic Focus and Leadership
Her academic focus both in research and teaching is centered on information
engineering with special emphasis on complex systems, biomedical signal
processing in ultrasound and optics and functional optical brain imaging. She
has led major research and development projects sponsored by the National
Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Naval
Research (ONR), DARPA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal
Aviation Agency (FAA). She supervised a large number of graduate students to
degree completion and has an extensive publication record in biomedical signals
and systems.
She founded several laboratories throughout her career: the most recent is
the CONQUER (Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental
Research) CollabOrative established in Fall 2008 as an interdisciplinary,
multi-institutional and international resource dedicated to the study of brain
activation, development and deployment of optical brain imaging technologies in
human performance, healthcare, mental health and learning with research and
development partners in US and overseas, including China, Israel, Spain and
Turkey.
National Honors, Awards and Services
She is the recipient of a number of faculty excellence awards including the 1990
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award of Drexel University, the EDUCOM Best
educational Software award and the NSF Faculty Achievement Award. She is a
Fellow of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Founding Fellow of
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She served
on the inaugural Board of the AIMBE as publications chair and as Chair of the
Academic Council.
Dr. Onaral’s professional services include chair and membership on advisory
boards and strategic planning bodies of several universities and funding agencies,
including service on the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Advisory
Board, and on the proposal review panels and study sections. Her professional
responsibilities have included service on the Editorial Board of journals and the
CRC Biomedical Engineering Handbook as Section Editor for Biomedical Signal
Analysis.
She served as President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society (EMBS), the largest member-based biomedical engineering society in
the world. Earlier, she had served as Vice-President of Conferences of IEEEEMBS. She has been active in conference leadership; notably, she organized
and chaired the 1990 Annual International Conference of the EMBS and CoChaired the 2004 Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering.
Translational Research and Health Innovations Leadership – University
Dr. Onaral’s translational research efforts for rapid commercialization of biomedical
technologies developed at Drexel and its partner institutions have resulted in the
creation of the Translational Research in Biomedical Technologies program. This
initiative brings together academic technology developers with entrepreneurs,
regional economic development agencies, local legal, business and investment
communities. Under her leadership, the program has been awarded $10 million
from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation toward the creation of the $20 million
Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership Endowment that serves
all faculty and researchers at Drexel University. She has participated in the
development of the Philadelphia Pediatric Device Consortium sponsored in part
by FDA and led by the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University and
University of Pennsylvania.
Regional Health Innovation Partnership
She led the creation of the regional Health Innovation Partnership - Philadelphia
Region Roadmap modeled on the ‘Coulter Translational Research Partnership’
approach to commercialize university innovations. The initiative has been
sponsored by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and aims to mobilize the
academic grassroots and to pool regional resources and assets to bring novel
solutions to healthcare.
International Academic and Health Innovation Partnerships
She has actively forged international academic partnerships with institutions in
China, Israel, Italy, Spain and Turkey.
In 2000, she led the first Eisenhower Foundation sponsored delegation of
biomedical engineers to China and helped organize the first Asia-Pacific
Biomedical Engineering Conference in Hangzhou. She has been instrumental
in the organization of international biomedical engineering conferences in
China including the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology in Shanghai, China, in 2005 and the dual-doctoral degree
in Neuroengineering with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
She has facilitated the development of translational research partnership with
the Institute for Drug Research of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She
is spearheading the creation of similar partnerships with the Med-X Research
Institute / School of Biomedical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai, China and INOVITA, Istanbul health innovation platform.
In Turkey, she participated in the strategic planning team charged with the
creation of Sabancı University established in 1998 in Istanbul, Turkey and
served on its Board of Trustees. Sabancı University is top ranked in innovation
and entrepreneurship in Turkey. She served as the President of the Turkish
American Scientists and Scholars Association. She serves as a senior advisor
to Teknopark Istanbul, the $4B science, technology and innovation hub under
development in Turkey. Her responsibility areas center on health and human
systems in aerospace. She also serves on the EBILTEM Technology Transfer
Advisory of Ege University, Izmir, and the advisory board of DEpark, the Dokuz
Eylul University Health Technopark. She has participated as the US lead or
liaison in regional health innovation initiatives, namely INOVIZ, INOVAnkara and
INOVITA in Izmir, Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, respectively.
Professor Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney
Professor of International Relations and Head
of International Relations Department at Yıldız
Technical University, İstanbul
Chairlady of the 5th Session
Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney is professor of international relations and head of
international relations department at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. Prof.
Güney is security and nuclear energy fellow at the Wise Men Center for Strategic
Studies (BILGESAM). She has extensively published on Middle East, security
studies, American foreign and security policies, EU, NATO and arms control and
disarmament issues. She is the member of IISS. Some of her latest publications
include;
‘Turkish Nuclear Security after Iranian Nuclearization’, Contemporary Security
Policy, Vol. 33/3, December 2012.
‘The current Stalemate on the Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Is there a way out of this
Impasse?’, Ortadoğu Analiz Dergisi, Orsam, Mart 2013, Vol.5, No. 51, pp. 29-36.
‘The US-Russian Stand in the Field of Nuclera Proliferation: Cooperation or
Conflict?’, in Sergey K. Oznobishchev and Alexander I. Nikitin (eds), Arms
Control: Does it Have a Future?, Rossben Publishers, Moscow, 2013, pp. 152170.
‘Is it About Time to Rethink American Extended Deterrence?’, International
Relations and Diplomacy, David Publishing, January 2013, Vol. 2, No.1, pp.1-11.
Brigadier General Dr. Zenon Smutniak, Polish
Air Force (Ret)
Visiting Professor at National Defense University,
Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland
“Are We Suffering From Tunnel Vision?
Airpower As Seen By Airmen”
Brigadier General Dr. Zenon Smutniak was born in 1950 in Szczebrzeszyn. He
graduated from Polish Air force Academy in 1975 and received his Ph.D from
National Defense University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland in 2001. Since 2008,
he has lectured as Visiting Professor at National Defense University. He speaks
Russian and English.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1.02 2008- to date: Visiting Professor, National Defense University, WarsawRembertow, Poland
2006-31.01.2008: Deputy Commandant-Rector of the National Defense
University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland
2003-2006: Deputy Commander of the NATO Combined Air Operations Center,
Finderup,Denmark
2000/2003: Assistant Air Force Commander, Warsaw, Poland
2000-2002: Commander-Rector of the Polish Air Force Academy; Deblin, Poland
1985-2000: SU-22 jet aircraft pilot; posts held: Squadron Commander, Deputy
Regiment Commander, Regiment Commander, Deputy Division Commander,
Division Commander, Brigade Commander
1975-1985: TS-11jet aircraft instructor pilot of the Polish Air Force Academy,
Radom, Poland
EDUCATION, COURSES
2004 NATO Defense Policy Course; Oberammergau, Germany
2003 NATO Planning Course, Oberammergau, Germany
2001 PhD (Military Studies); National Defense University, Warsaw-Rembertow, Poland
1997 english leanguage course, CFB Borden, Canada
1992-1993 Postgraduate Studies; National Defense University, WarsawRembertow, Poland
1981 -1984 Military Aviation Academy; Monino, USSR
1971-1975 Engineer, Polish Air Force Academy; Deblin, Poland
1964-1969 Electrical Technical School, Zamosc, Poland
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Operational and tactical use of aviation
- Logistical and technical support of air operations
- The use of aviation in state security operations
- Improving the Nation Security System
- Informatization of the decision making process in the national security
management
- Crisis Management
Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur, Indian
Air Force (Ret)
Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Air Power
Studies, New Delhi
“Air Power: Societal Tool of a Higher Calling”
Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur, retired from the Indian Air Force after 36
years of distinguished service. He is a Cat A flying instructor, an Experimental
Test Pilot from EPNER (French Test Pilots School), a graduate of the Air
Command and Staff College, USA and a post graduate in Defence and Strategic
Studies from Madras University. He has commanded a frontline Helicopter Unit
and two Flying Bases, was the Contingent Commander of the first Indian Air
Force United Nations Mission in Sudan and has been Head of Training (Air) at
Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.
As Asst Chief of Air Staff, AVM Bahadur was the operational head of Transport
and Helicopter Operations of the Indian Air Force for two and a half years. His
last assignment was as Asst Chief of Integrated Defence Staff in-charge of
perspective planning and force structure of the Indian Armed Forces.
AVM Manmohan Bahadur is currently a Distinguished fellow at the Centre for
Air Power Studies, New Delhi. He has been awarded the Vayu Sena Medal (Air
Force Medal) by the President of India for distinguished service. He writes for
leading national newspapers and professional journals and is presently working
on his book ‘Coercion and Air Power’.
Colonel Professor Mark K. Wells
Permanent Professor and Head Department of
History, United States Air Force Academy
“Tribal Warfare: The Society of Modern
Airmen”
Colonel Mark K. Wells is Permanent Professor and Head of the Department
of History, Dean of the Faculty, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. At
the Academy he leads a 31-person academic department teaching 40 different
history courses to over 3,000 cadets annually. As Chairman of the Humanities
Division, he represents five academic departments: English and Fine Arts,
Foreign Languages, History, Military Strategic Studies, and Philosophy. The son
of a career Air Force officer, Colonel Wells is a 1975 graduate of the United
States Air Force Academy.
He also holds an M.A. in History from Texas Tech University and a Ph.D. in
War Studies from King’s College, University of London. Following pilot training
he served in a variety of flying and leadership assignments in the Strategic Air
Command and the Air Training Command.
He was an aircraft commander in the KC-135 Strato-tanker with the 92nd Air
Refueling Squadron. Subsequently he spent more than 5 years flying the T-37 as
an instructor pilot and later as a flight commander in Pilot Instructor Training. His
teaching experiences include three years as an Assistant Professor of Military
History at the Air Force Academy and two years part-time at the University of
Maryland. Shortly after attending the Air Command and Staff College, he served
two years as a Military Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe,
where he participated first-hand in NATO’s evolving strategy and conventional
force structure changes.
He graduated from the Army War College in 1993. Before assuming his current
position, Colonel Wells served as the Department of History’s Deputy Head and
Senior Military Professor. He completed a 2-year sabbatical at the headquarters
of U.S. European Command, in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2007 and is currently
active as an Instructor Pilot with the 557th Flying Training Squadron. His interests
include NATO, military history, airpower, and the human dimension of combat.
Colonel Wells has authored several entries in encyclopedias. He has also
published articles in a number of periodicals, including Military Review, Airpower
Journal, Living History, and Air Classics. Colonel Wells’ first book, Courage and
Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War, won the
Society for Military History’s 1997 Distinguished Book Award. It has also been
selected twice for the Air Force Chief of Staff’s recommended reading list for
all serving officers. He edited a second book, Airpower: Promise and Reality,
published in 2002, and subsequently assumed the senior editorial responsibilities
for the Academy’s Military History Symposium series. The first book to be
published under his leadership was Future Wars: Coalition Operations in Global
Strategy. Currently on a one-semester sabbatical at the U.S. Army War College,
Colonel Wells is a command pilot with over 3,200 flying hours in the KC-135,
T-37, T-3, T-41, T-52 and T-53.
He is married to the former Donna Carol Johnson of Niceville, Florida.
EDUCATION:
1975 B.S., History, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO
1981 Distinguished Graduate, Squadron Officer’s School, Maxwell AFB, AL
1983 M.A., History, Texas Tech University
1987 Distinguished Graduate, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB,
AL
1991 Air War College, correspondence
1992 Ph.D. in War Studies, King’s College, University of London
1993 U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. July 1975 – Aug 1976; Student, Undergraduate Pilot Training, Craig AFB, AL
2. Aug 1976 – Jan 1977; Student KC-135 Combat Crew Training School, Castle
AFB, CA
3. Feb 1977 – Dec 1979; Co-pilot and Aircraft Commander, 92nd Air Refueling
Squadron, Fairchild AFB, WA
4. Jan 1980 – May 1982; Instructor Pilot, 35th Flying Training Squadron, Reese
AFB, TX
5. May 1982 – May 1983; Chief, Learning Center Branch, 64th Student Squadron,
Reese AFB, TX
6. June 1983 – June1986; Assistant Professor of History, USAF Academy, CO
7. July 1986 – July 1987; Student, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell
AFB, AL
8. Aug 1987 – Aug 1988; Flight Commander, 559th Flying Training Squadron, Randolph
AFB, TX
9. Aug 1988 – Aug 1989; Student, Ph.D. candidate, King’s College, University of London
10.Aug 1989 – Aug 1991; Military Asst., Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, SHAPE,
Belgium
11.Aug 1991 – Aug 1992; Student, Ph.D. candidate, King’s College, University of London
12.Aug 1992 – Aug 1993; Student, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA
13.Aug 1993 – Feb 2000; Senior Military Professor and Deputy Head, Dept of History,
USAFA
13. Feb 2000 – Jun 2005; Permanent Professor and Head, Dept of History, USAF
Academy, CO
14. Jun 2005 – Jun 2007; Special Assistant to the Director, J-5, U.S. European Command;
Assistant Political Advisor to the Commander
15. Jun 2007 – July 2013; Permanent Professor and Head, Dept of History, Division
Chair, Humanities Division, USAF Academy, CO
16. Aug 2013 – Dec 2013; Visiting Professor, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA
17. Jan 2014 – present; Permanent Professor and Head, Dept of History, USAF
Academy, CO
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS:
Legion of Merit
Defense Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal
Colonel Gökhan Sönmezateş
Head of Joint Personnel Recovery Branch, Chief
of Joint Target Analysis Center
“The History of Turkish Air Force Rescue
Operations”
Col. Gökhan Şahin SÖNMEZATEŞ was born in 1967 in Erzurum. After completing
military high school education, he graduated from Turkish Air Force Academy in
1989.
Upon graduating from Army Infantry School, he followed Army Commando
School, Navy Military SCUBA Diving School, Air Force Search and Rescue, and
Military Free Fall School.
He also graduated from US Air Force Survival Instructor Course, with Open
Ocean, Arctic, Desert, Tropic environment Survival Courses in 1996. He attended
Air Staff College in 2000 and graduated in 2002.
He served as Commander of Combat Search and Rescue School untill 2007.
He posted NATO Joint Warfare Center-Norway for three years until 2010, and
he attended almost 6 Steadfast series NATO exercises, and 2 ISAF exercises
as a planner, and he was the main project officer of NATO JPR Doctrin. He was
selected by NATO Standardization Agency as a chief of NATO Air Operation
Supporting Working Group until 2012.
Then he assigned to TUR Air Force HQ as a Chief of Personnel Recovery Branch
in Operation Division, currently he is in the same position plus as a head of Joint
Target Analyzing Center as dual headed.
Col. SÖNMEZATEŞ is married to Mrs. Bilgehan Sönmezateş, has two daughters.
Mr. Philip Handleman
Aviation Author,
President of Handleman Filmworks
“Depictions of Air Power in Western Art.”
Philip Handleman has been an active pilot for many years. He has owned and
flown antique aircraft of military lineage including World War II-era open-cockpit
biplanes. He has also been a staunch advocate for aviation, having successfully
initiated provisions in both the Michigan Aeronautics Code and federal aviation
law that protect airport owners and users of the U.S. national airspace.
Mr. Handleman has written or edited twenty-two aviation books. Notable titles
include Beyond the Horizon: Combat Aircraft of the Next Century (Motorbooks
International/Airlife Publishing); Combat in the Sky: The Art of Air Warfare
(Motorbooks International); Aviation: A History Through Art (Howell Press); and
Air Combat Reader: Historic Feats and Aviation Legends, co-edited with Walter
J. Boyne, (Fall River Press/Potomac Books/Brassey’s).
All of these books sold out their first printings. One of these titles, Air Combat
Reader, despite being aimed at a general readership, has been used as a
college-level textbook and has been issued in a fourth edition. In 2012, it was
handed out by the Air Force Association as the official gift to the more than
fifty speakers at the organization’s major annual symposium and conference in
Washington, D.C. The recipients of the book included the Chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force.
The author has had more than one hundred articles published in a wide array
of publications. Mr. Handleman has often contributed to Vintage Airplane
magazine, which is published by the second largest pilot organization in the U.S.
with a membership of over 170,000. He frequently has book reviews in Aviation
History magazine. Also, he has had guest editorials appear in such publications
as the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit
News, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. He has been repeatedly quoted as
an aviation expert by Reuters.
Mr. Handleman is President of Handleman Filmworks which has produced
award-winning public television documentaries. His production Remembering the
Holocaust received an Emmy for best documentary from the Michigan Chapter
of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. His documentary about
Vietnam-era MIAs/POWs, Our Missing in Action, received a First Place Award
from the Michigan Sesquicentennial Film and Video Festival.
Additionally, Mr. Handleman’s still photography has been featured on U.S. postage
stamps. The stamp commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Air Force
in 1997 showcased his photograph of the Thunderbirds air demonstration team
performing its classic diamond formation. The stamp commemorating the fiftieth
anniversary of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2004 highlighted his photograph of
the iconic Cadet Chapel at sunrise. The stamps had print runs of approximately
45 million and 60 million, respectively.
Mr. Handleman has served on the boards of about forty civic and cultural
organizations including the National Advisory Committee of the Holocaust
and War Victims Tracing Center of the American Red Cross and the Michigan
chapter board of the Friends of the National Defense Forces. He has served on
the Executive Committee of the Selfridge Air National Guard Base Community
Council and the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Air Guard Historical Association
which oversees the state’s largest military aircraft museum. Other organizations
on whose boards he has served include the Detroit Historical Society, the Detroit
Science Center, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Friends of the Detroit
Public Library where he was also President.
In June 2002, Mr. Handleman initiated the legislative effort to award the
Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen which resulted in the Medal’s
presentation nearly five years later by the President and Speaker of the House
in a ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda. The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical
Museum recognized Mr. Handleman with its Outstanding Achievement Award in
1997 and its Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award in 2005.
For his contributions to aviation art and literature, Mr. Handleman received the
Harriet Quimby Award from the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008. For
his contributions to the preservation of America’s air and space heritage, Mr.
Handleman received the Combs Gates Award from the National Aviation Hall of
Fame in 2010.
On September 14, 2013, Mr. Handleman testified before the National Commission
on the Structure of the Air Force. In his prepared statement, he stressed the
importance of the military-civilian relationship. He also pointed to the value of
the Air National Guard and the imperative of preserving the American air power
advantage.
Mr. Handleman graduated from Washington University and subsequently
completed the Executive Academy at the University of Michigan’s Graduate
School of Business Administration. He and his wife, Mary, divide their time
between their home in Birmingham, Michigan and their private airport in the
nearby countryside which contains one of the country’s largest private aviation
libraries and aviation art collections.
Dr. Sanu Kainikara
Air Power Strategist of the Royal Australian Air
Force at the Air Power Development Centre
Closing Remarks of the Symposium
International Symposium on the History of Air
Warfare - ISAW 2014
Sanu Kainikara is the RAAF’s Air Power Strategist at the Air Power Development
Centre.
He is a former fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force (IAF) who retired voluntarily as a
Group Captain after 21 years of commissioned service. He has vast operational
flying experience in a number of modern fighter aircraft and has flown over 4,000
hours on fighter aircraft. He is operational on the MiG-21,-23,-25,-27, and MiG29 and has also flown the Jaguar and Hunter aircraft. Dr Kainikara is a Qualified
Flying Instructor (A2), a graduate and Directing Staff of the Fighter Weapons
School and was the Commanding Officer of an Operational fighter squadron.
Sanu was decorated is the recipient of the Air Force Cross and two Commendations
from the IAF Chief of Air Staff. He has also received the Royal Australian Air
Force Chief of Air Force’s Commendation.
After leaving active duty with the Indian Air Force he worked for four years as
the senior analyst of a US Training Team in the Middle East, specialising in
fighter operations, weapons and tactics, before migrating to Australia. He has
presented papers at a number of international conferences and published papers
on national security, strategy and air power in various international professional
journals. He is the author of ten books: Papers on Air Power (2006), Pathways
to Victory (2007), Red Air: Politics in Russian Air Power (2007), Australian
Security in the Asian Century (2008) A Fresh Look at Air Power Doctrine (2008),
Seven Perennial Challenges to Air Forces (2009), The Art of Air Power: Sun Tzu
Revisited (2010), At the Critical Juncture (2011), Essays on Air Power (2012),
The Bolt from the Blue (2013) and From Indus to Independence Volume I (2013).
He is the contributing editor of the book Friends in High Places (2009). He has
taught Aerospace Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
University, Melbourne and is currently a Visiting Fellow at University of New
South Wales in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr Kainikara is a graduate of the Indian National Defence Academy, Defence
Services Staff College and the College of Air Warfare. He holds two Bachelors
degrees (Strategic Studies and Aerospace Engineering) and a Master of Science
in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras. His PhD in
International Politics was awarded by the University of Adelaide. He is currently
pursuing doctoral studies on the topic of the Law of Armed Conflict and Military
Strategy at the ANU.
TURKISH AIR WAR COLLEGE
Turkish Air War College was established on 1 November 1937 as the air war college
director in “Yıldız Palace” in order to train staff officers for duty of the command of the
Turkish Air Force. Due to the Second World War, between 1941 and 1946 Air War College
moved to Ankara and continued its activities. After the Second World War Air War College
moved to Istanbul again and until 1975 training activities continued in the “Yıldız Palace”.
In March 1949, Air War College was named Commander of the Air War College and
moved to Yenilevent facilities in 1975.
The objectives of Air War College are thoroughly to have the ability to find appropriate
course of action, to reach proper decision making approach and implement the decisions
effectively, to have the capacity of a command and staff officer who displays sound
judgement and planning skills, are respectful to the rules of law, absorb the democratic
values, act under the guidence of wisdom and science, and have vision.
The vision of Air War College is to train and educate in order to become an aviation
and aerospace power competing with the age, which keeps basic values of the Turkish
Air Force alive, trains highly-educated aviator manpower, adopts a contemporary
management approach, possesses high technology and utilizes it efficiently, is capable
of conducting uninterrupted separate / joint / combined operations anywhere required by
national interests and strengthens its superiority through national defense industry.

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