Employing airpower in a counterinsurgency campaign is the subject of Dr. James Corum's probing examination of the 12-year war in El Salvador. This subject is all the more relevant in light of our increased involvement around the globe. We need to expand the dialogue and closely examine the employment of airpower in such actions. Ethics, integrity, authority, and propriety all are in the news. We can hardly have a con- versation or read a periodical without some ethical question staring us in the face.
Ethical behavior is the binder in the foundation of military culture.
Dr. James Toner examines how we teach ethics and asks some hard questions. Lt Col John Lanicci asks whether the United States has become so technologically sophisticated that we have forgotten some commonsense principles of warfare. Lieutenant Colonel Lanicci then outlines a strategy for developing innovative ways of exploiting terrestrial and space weather in battle. In every war in its history, the US Army turned to native speakers to meet its language needs but did so as a last-minute expedient. Desert Storm was no different.