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Maxwell
In the spring of 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright
turned the eyes of the world on the Kohn planta-
tion just outside Montgomery.
Orville Wright's first flight from a plantation just
HISTORY
outside Montgomery Aug. 27, 1910, marked the be-
ginning of flying training, Maxwell Air Force Base
and Air University.
Described in a local paper as a great mechani-
cal bird," the Wright biplane was housed in a han-
which?
gar located near the present-day base operations
building.
Since that time, the 192-foot runways used to
launch the Wrights' pusher type biplane have
grown to 7,000 feet and can accommodate almost
any aircraft being used today.
The single hangar used by the Wrights, five stu-
dents and a mechanic, has grown into an impres-
sive array of academic buildings, technical,
residential, recreation and administrative facilities,
making Maxwell one of the most modern Air Force
bases in the world.
One of the first major peacetime missions of the
base was the mosaic mapping of most of the
southeastern section of the United States. This was
done by the 4th Photo Section, which also com-
pleted the mosaic mapping of the "Tennessee Val-
ley Project" - later named the Tennessee Valley
Authority or TVA. During the TVA mapping project,
this unit took the first aerial photos ever made at
night.
Construction of the first permanent buildings on
the base was completed in May 1928.
In June 1931, the first troops began moving the
Air Corps Tactical School from Langley Field, Va., to
Maxwell. By the end of August, 29, staff and faculty
officers and 325 enlisted men had arrived to con-
duct the first classes and start Maxwell on its career
as an educational institution.
The Air Corps Tactical School was temporarily dis-
continued in 1940 because of events in Europe and
the Far East. The facilities here were used by the
Southeast Air Corps Training Center to train officers
and pilots needed for expanding military re-
quirements.
During this period, an airport was acquired from
the city and Gunter Air Force Base was established
there have been important tenants occupying the
for basic flying training.
installation. In the 1950s, the Medical Service School
Air University was established in 1946 and Max-
was housed there. In 1957 the Montgomery Air
well became the home of the Air Force's center for
Defense Sector was activated at Gunter and then
professional military education. Unique among the
during the 1960s, Headquarters 14th Air Force was
nation's major educational institutions, AU provides
located at the base, along with the 32nd Air Divi-
instruction for more than one-half million resident
sion. These organizations have since been relocat-
and nonresident students per year.
ed or deactivated.
With the outbreak of the Korean conflict in June
Extension Course Institute was established at
1950, the Air Force decided to consolidate all its
Gunter in May 1950 as one of Air University's special-
educational activities at Maxwell and Gunter. As a
ized schools. At first, enrollment in its nonresident
result, the base became SO saturated with organi-
classes was voluntary. But after the Air Force adopt-
zations that in 1954, the construction of addition-
ed a dual-channel on-the-job training program for
al academic facilities on what is now Chennault
its enlisted members, they were required to com-
Circle was necessary, constituting the base's third
plete at least one job-related ECI course along with
major construction program.
training they'd receive from their supervisors in
order to fully qualify in their career fields.
Gunter
Standard Systems Center began as a supply and
Gunter Air Force Base was activated as a basic fly-
data automation team in Washington, D.C., in 1963.
ing school Aug. 27, 1940. More than 12,000 Ameri-
After designing what is now the standard base sup-
can, British, French and Chinese pilots were trained
ply system, it was expanded and consolidated with
here during World War II.
other design agencies and became the Air Force
Since that time, in addition to some AU units,
Data Systems Design Center. Its new charter encom-
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Lt Colonel Bandar Bin Faisal, Royal Saudi Air Force, is the son of
Deputy Squadron Commander, 6th Squadron Khamis Mushait.
the late King Faisal. He is 37 years old, single, engaged to be
He had his Staff College Training in Bracknell, England and was
married later this year. Bandar had his early schooling in Saudi
posted after to OPS, HQ R.S.A.F., Riyadh. In 1978 he became
Arabia until the age of fourteen. In 1957 he came to the USA for
high school, the Hun School, Princeton, New Jersey, and then on to
R.S.A.F. OPS Officer, Joint OPS Office of the Chief of Staff,
three years of Pomona College, California. From there he went to
Royal Saudi Military Forces. The Lt. Colonel enjoys varied types
Britain to H.R.M. Air Force College, Cranwell, and later the
of sports. He show and water skis, scuba dives, fences, plays tennis,
rides horses, and he rides dune cycles. He is here for the AWC and
Advanced Training Establishments in Britain. Bandar was an Air
Defense Pilot for some time serving as OPS Officer and later as
then going to courses of Base Commander, Defense Management,
and Joint Strategic Intelligence.
3
can work with the community of nations to work for an end to the
butchery -- but we cannot put our young men and women in the
middle of Iraq's civil war. ///
In the months and years ahead, Air University will help us
determine and debate the lessons learned in the Gulf War. Yet,
even now, there are several lessons that are clear.
The Gulf War confirms one of the oldest military maxims. In
the
words
of
Napoleon:
"the moral is to the material as ten is
to one." //
The history of war has always been a history of the new
displacing the old -- from the sword to the gun, from the cavalry
to the tank, from the Trojan horse of ancient myth to the stealth
aircraft of today. But while the tools and technology change,
the nature of war remains in many ways the same. Whether it's
the horseman in the saddle or the pilot in the cockpit -- what
the warrior brings to the battle is the will to fight. If his
cause is just, his will can turn the war -- but if his will is
weakened by a cause that is questionable, no technology is strong
enough to save him. //
In the Gulf War, America and its allies had more than
superior weapons ---- we had the will to win. //
The second lesson learned concerns doctrine and strategy.
Just one week into the war, the allied air campaign had plunged
Iraq's Armed Forces into a strategic death spiral. In DESERT
STORM, we demonstrated the true strength of joint operations.
Not the notion that each service must paricipate in equal part in
McGroarty/Dooley
April 9, 1991
2:00 pm
[AIR]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AIR UNIVERSITY, MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
APRIL 13, 1990
9:00 AM
General Boyd, distinguished guests. Friends -- and fellow
airmen: // It is my great pleasure to look out across this sea
of blue -- to meet this morning with the men and women of Air
University. //
The history of aviation has been shaped here since the early
days of this century -- when the Wright brothers brought their
strange new "mechanical bird" to Montgomery, housed in a hangar
not far from where we now stand. From the first days of the Air
Corps Tactical School, the strategy, tactics and operational
concepts employed over the fields of Europe and the seas of the
Pacific -- and most recently in the thousand hours of DESERT
STORM -- have been shaped right here at Maxwell. //
There's an old adage that we are forever condemned to "fight
the last war." Here at Air University, nothing could be further
from the truth. Here, history matters: Not the dry-as-dust
study of what is old and antiquated -- this is applied history,
inquiry guided by a special sense of urgency. The emphasis is on
lessons learned -- and the ultimate test of learning these
lessons is literally life and death. What you learn here, you
put on the line. America's highest ranking POW in DESERT STORM -
- Lt. Col. David Eberly -- is an alumnus of the War College{?} Resident
class of '89. //
Program
2
Here, history is informed by the human factor -- and it's
personified by the man who leads you. General Boyd is a veteran
of Vietnam -- 105 combat missions, before he was shot down on a
2515
mission over Hanoi. He spent almost seven years 2000{?} cruel
days -- in captivity. Yet he emerged, brave and unbroken. He
kept the faith -- to himself, and to his nation -- in a war in
which this nation too often broke faith with its fighting men. /
General Boyd knows first-hand what it means when we make the
solemn pledge -- there will be "No more Vietnams. " ///
Whenever American troops are engaged, we must go in with a
clear objective -- one we can meet militarily. Whenever American
troops are engaged, we must make certain the cause is right --
one the American public can support. Finally, whenever American
troops are engaged, we must make the decision to achieve our
objectives swiftly -- and with as little cost in lives as
possible. The force we employ must be decisive -- and yet
discriminate. //
America and its allies enjoyed each of these crucial
advantages in the Gulf War. Our forces -- our cause --
prevailed. Today, Kuwait is free. //
But in Iraq, even now, the agony continues. As much as each
fresh proof of the savagery of Saddam sickens us -- as much as we
agonize over the miseries of the Kurds in the North and the
Shiites in the South -- we cannot commit American troops to
combat with no clear military aim. I think the American people
understand implicitly that we can render humanitarian aid -- we
3
can work with the community of nations to work for an end to the
butchery -- but we cannot put our young men and women in the
middle of Iraq's civil war. ///
In the months and years ahead, Air University will help us
determine and debate the lessons learned in the Gulf War. Yet,
even now, there are several lessons that are clear.
The Gulf War confirms one of the oldest military maxims. In
the words of Napoleon:
"the moral is to the material as ten is
to one. " //
The history of war has always been a history of the new
displacing the old -- from the sword to the gun, from the cavalry
to the tank, from the Trojan horse of ancient myth to the stealth
aircraft of today. But while the tools and technology change,
the nature of war remains in many ways the same. Whether it's
the horseman in the saddle or the pilot in the cockpit -- what
the warrior brings to the battle is the will to fight. If his
cause is just, his will can turn the war -- but if his will is
weakened by a cause that is questionable, no technology is strong
enough to save him. //
In the Gulf War, America and its allies had more than
superior weapons -- we had the will to win. //
The second lesson learned concerns doctrine and strategy.
Just one week into the war, the allied air campaign had plunged
Iraq's Armed Forces into a strategic death spiral. In DESERT
STORM, we demonstrated the true strength of joint operations.
Not the notion that each service must paricipate in equal part in
4
every operation of every war -- but that we use the proper tool
at the proper time. In DESERT STORM, the proper tool -- the
decisive tool -- was airpower. //
Consider the lightning speed of the ground war -- beyond
blitzkrieg. All of us marvel that the ground war was won in only
100 hours. But we can't forget what made this possible. As a
result of a comprehensive air campaign, allied ground forces had
free range of movement -- and near-complete tactical surprise.
I'm sure you've all heard about the sand-box model of the theater
of operations found when allied forces took the Iraqi command
center in Kuwait City. It remained just as the Iraqis had left
it: with all Iraqi units pointed toward the sea, red arrows set
up to show the allies' amphibious assault -- the assault that
never came. Six weeks and 100,000 sorties had blinded the Iraqi
command -- isolated its army in the field -- and cut it off from
the intelligence it needed to survive. ///
Here at Air University, it's your business to read the
lessons of the past with an eye on the far horizon. That's why
I've chosen to speak today about the new world taking shape
around us -- about the prospects for a new world order now within
our reach. //
In one respect, the new world we seek is hardly new at all.
It is at least as old as the hopes and dreams of 1919 and 1945 -
- hopes and dreams dashed twice this century -- visions of a
world in which order would form the backdrop for a widening
circle of democracy -- for a growing commonwealth of freedom.
5
Today, for the third time this Century, the prospect of this new
world draws us forward. //
And yet, as I've said before, we have not entered an era of
perpetual peace. As old threats recede, new threats emerge.
Conflict and danger will be a constant. The quest for the new
world order is in part a challenge to keep the dangers of
disorder at bay.
Those dangers are real. With the end of the Cold War, many
enmities and ethnic rivalries frozen in time threaten to revive
themselves and reignite. From the Baltics in the north to
Yugoslavia in the south and across each of the Soviet Union's
republics -- nations within nations struggle to achieve self-
determination. //
And quite apart from the easing of East-West enmities,
renegade regimes pose new threats to peace. Saddam Hussein,
unfortunately, is not the world's only international outlaw. By
the year 2000, as many as 15 nations may have both weapons of
mass destruction and the ballistic missiles to deliver them.
Many of these regimes will be ruled by leaders more rash than
rational -- less likely to be dissuaded from outlaw acts by
theories of deterrence than by the clear and indisputable ability
to frustrate their aggressive aims. //
Finally, we must guard against healthy economic competition
boiling over into open economic conflict. Many of our key
security partners are our toughest economic competitors. We must
6
work with our allies to ensure that in working together to end
the Cold War we have not made the world safe for trade wars. ///
All of these challenges concern us. Each stands between us
and the new world we seek. But none of these challenges is so
grave that it cancels out this fundamental fact: Never before in
history have the ideals of democracy and freedom -- America's
ideals -- been more ascendant. Never before has the world looked
more to the American example. Never before have so many millions
drawn hope from the American idea. //
The reason is simple: America is unlike any other nation in
the world. Every American loves this land. Every one of us
feels deeply our connections to community, to families, to our
faiths. But what defines this nation -- what makes us American -
- is not our ties to a piece of territory, or bonds of blood.
What makes us American is our allegiance to an idea: that all
people -- everywhere -- must be free. //
That is why, in the deepest sense, the new world we seek is
as old as this nation itself -- as deeply rooted in what we are
as the promise implicit to all the world in the words of our
Declaration of Independence. //
We have not yet reached this new world. We do not know when
we will. But we know that only in striving to reach this new
world can America be true to all that is best in us. //
May God bless this great nation -- the United States of
America.
# # #
AIR UNIVERSITY, MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
APRIL 13, 1990
9:00 AM
GENERAL BOYD. GENERAL McPEAK. SENATORS HEFLIN AND
SHELBY. REPRESENTATIVE DICKINSON. MAYOR FOLMAR. BILL
CABANISS. FRIENDS. IT IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO LOOK
OUT ACROSS THIS SEA OF BLUE -- TO MEET THIS MORNING
WITH THE MEN AND WOMEN OF AIR UNIVERSITY. //
THE HISTORY OF AVIATION HAS BEEN SHAPED HERE SINCE
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS BROUGHT THEIR STRANGE NEW
"MECHANICAL BIRD" TO MONTGOMERY, AND HOUSED IT IN A
HANGAR NOT FAR FROM WHERE WE NOW STAND. THIS
INSTITUTION, FROM ITS EARLY DAYS AS THE AIR CORPS
TACTICAL SCHOOL, HAS DEFINED THE NATION'S AIR STRATEGY
AND TACTICS THAT HAVE GUIDED OUR OPERATIONS OVER THE
FIELDS OF EUROPE AND THE SEAS OF THE PACIFIC -- FROM
THE FIRST WORLD WAR TO THE THOUSAND HOURS OF DESERT
STORM. //
- 2 -
IT FALLS TO ALL OF YOU TO DERIVE THE LESSONS
LEARNED FROM THIS WAR. DESERT STORM DEMONSTRATED THE
TRUE STRENGTH OF JOINT OPERATIONS: NOT THE NOTION THAT
EACH SERVICE MUST PARTICIPATE IN EQUAL PARTS IN EVERY
OPERATION IN EVERY WAR -- BUT THAT WE USE THE PROPER
TOOLS AT THE PROPER TIME. IN DESERT STORM, A CRITICAL
TOOL WAS CERTAINLY AIRPOWER. / AND EVERY ONE OF YOU
CAN TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THAT FACT. //
OUR TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING ENSURED MINIMAL LOSSES
-- AND OUR PRECISION SPARED THE LIVES OF INNOCENT
CIVILIANS. BUT OUR VICTORY IN THE GULF ALSO SHOWED
THAT TECHNOLOGY ALONE IS INSUFFICIENT. A WARRIOR'S
HEART MUST BURN WITH THE WILL TO FIGHT. IF HE FIGHTS
BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE -- NO TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORLD CAN
SAVE HIM. //
WE AND OUR ALLIES HAD MORE THAN SUPERIOR WEAPONS
-- WE HAD THE WILL TO WIN. //
- 3 -
THIS WILL IS PERSONIFIED BY THE MAN WHO LEADS YOU.
I KNOW THAT GENERAL BOYD OFTEN SPEAKS ABOUT WHAT HE
CALLS THE "UNLIMITED LIABILITY" OF THE MILITARY
PROFESSION. HE KNOWS, BECAUSE HE'S PUT IT ALL ON THE
LINE. AS A VETERAN OF VIETNAM, HE FLEW 105 COMBAT
MISSIONS -- BEFORE BEING SHOT DOWN OVER HANOI. HE
SPENT ALMOST SEVEN YEARS -- 2500 CRUEL DAYS -- IN
CAPTIVITY. YET HE EMERGED -- BRAVE, UNBROKEN. HE KEPT
HIS FAITH -- TO HIMSELF, AND TO HIS NATION. //
- 4 -
AND JUST A WORD ABOUT GENERAL McPEAK. I REMEMBER
EARLY ON A MEETING AT CAMP DAVID WITH GENERAL McPEAK,
SECRETARY CHENEY, GENERAL POWELL, AND THE OTHER CHIEFS.
IN A VERY LAID BACK WAY, BUT WITH TOTAL CONFIDENCE, HE
TOLD ME EXACTLY WHAT HE FELT AIR POWER COULD DO. AFTER
HE LEFT, I TURNED TO MY TRUSTED NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISOR, GENERAL SCOWCROFT, AND I SAID "BRENT, DOES
THIS GUY REALLY NOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT?"
BRENT SAID, "YES": // AND GENERAL McPEAK DID. TO BE
DOUBLY SURE, I INVITED GENERAL McPEAK, SECRETARY
CHENEY, AND GENERAL SCOWCROFT TO A QUIET LUNCH AT THE
WHITE HOUSE. I ASKED TONY "ARE YOU AS CERTAIN NOW AS
YOU WERE UP AT CAMP DAVID?" HE SAID "EVEN MORE SO."
THE WAR STARTED JUST A FEW DAYS LATER. HISTORY WILL
RECORD GENERAL McPEAK WAS 100% RIGHT.
HERE AT AIR UNIVERSITY, IT'S YOUR BUSINESS TO READ
THE LESSONS OF THE PAST WITH AN EYE ON THE FAR HORIZON.
THAT'S WHY I'LL SPEAK TODAY ABOUT THE NEW WORLD TAKING
SHAPE AROUND US -- ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR A NEW WORLD
ORDER NOW WITHIN OUR REACH.
- 5 -
FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, WE HAVE LIVED IN A
WORLD DIVIDED -- EAST FROM WEST. A WORLD LOCKED IN A
CONFLICT OF ARMS AND IDEAS CALLED THE COLD WAR. TWO
SYSTEMS -- TWO SUPERPOWERS -- SEPARATED BY MISTRUST AND
UNREMITTING HOSTILITY. FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES,
AMERICA'S ENERGIES WERE FOCUSED ON CONTAINING THE
THREAT TO THE FREE WORLD FROM THE FORCES OF COMMUNISM.
THAT WAR IS OVER. EAST GERMANY HAS VANISHED FROM
THE MAP. TODAY IN BERLIN, THE WALL THAT ONCE DIVIDED A
CONTINENT AND A WORLD IN TWO HAS BEEN PULVERIZED,
TURNED INTO SOUVENIRS. THE SECTIONS THAT REMAIN
STANDING ARE BUT MUSEUM PIECES.
THE WARSAW PACT PASSED INTO THE PAGES OF HISTORY
LAST WEEK, NOT WITH A BANG BUT WITH A WHIMPER -- ITS
DEMISE REPORTED IN A STORY ON PAGE A16 OF THE
WASHINGTON POST. //
- 6 -
IN THE COMING WEEKS, I WILL BE TALKING IN SOME
DETAIL ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW WORLD ORDER
EMERGING AFTER THE COLD WAR. IN RECENT WEEKS, I HAVE
BEEN FOCUSING NOT ONLY ON THE GULF, BUT ON FREER TRADE
-- ON THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT, THE
URUGUAY ROUND OF TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, AND THE
ESSENTIALITY OF MY OBTAINING FROM CONGRESS A RENEWAL OF
FAST TRACK AUTHORITY TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS. BUT TODAY,
I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS ANOTHER ASPECT OF THAT ORDER,
OUR RELATIONS WITH EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION.
TWICE THIS CENTURY, A DREAM BORN ON THE
BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE DIED AFTER THE SHOOTING STOPPED
-- THE DREAM OF A WORLD IN WHICH MAJOR POWERS WORK
TOGETHER TO ENSURE PEACE, AND SETTLE THEIR DISPUTES
THROUGH COOPERATION, NOT CONFRONTATION.
TODAY, A TRANSFORMED EUROPE STANDS CLOSER THAN EVER
BEFORE TO ITS FREE AND DEMOCRATIC DESTINY. AT LONG
LAST, EUROPE IS MOVING FORWARD AGAIN -- MOVING TOWARD A
NEW WORLD OF HOPE. //
- 7 -
AT THE SAME TIME WE AND OUR EUROPEAN ALLIES HAVE
MOVED BEYOND CONTAINMENT -- TO A POLICY OF ACTIVE
ENGAGEMENT IN A WORLD NO LONGER DRIVEN BY COLD WAR
TENSIONS AND ANIMOSITIES. //
AS THE COLD WAR DREW TO AN END, WE SAW THE
POSSIBILITIES OF A NEW ORDER IN WHICH NATIONS WORK
TOGETHER TO PROMOTE PEACE AND PROSPERITY. I'M NOT
TALKING HERE OF A BLUEPRINT THAT WILL GOVERN THE
CONDUCT OF NATIONS -- OR SOME SUPRANATIONAL STRUCTURE
OR INSTITUTION. THE NEW WORLD ORDER DOES NOT MEAN
SURRENDERING OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY OR FORFEITING OUR
INTERESTS.
- 8 -
IT REALLY DESCRIBES A RESPONSIBILITY IMPOSED BY OUR
SUCCESSES. IT REFERS TO NEW WAYS OF WORKING WITH OTHER
NATIONS TO DETER AGGRESSION -- AND TO ACHIEVE
STABILITY, PROSPERITY AND PEACE. IT SPRINGS FROM HOPES
FOR A WORLD BASED ON A SHARED COMMITMENT, AMONG NATIONS
LARGE AND SMALL, TO A SET OF PRINCIPLES THAT UNDERGIRD
OUR RELATIONS: PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES,
SOLIDARITY AGAINST AGGRESSION, REDUCED AND CONTROLLED
ARSENALS, AND JUST TREATMENT OF ALL PEOPLES. ///
THIS ORDER, THIS ABILITY TO WORK TOGETHER, GOT ITS
FIRST REAL TEST IN THE GULF WAR. FOR THE FIRST TIME, A
REGIONAL CONFLICT DID NOT SERVE AS A PROXY FOR A
SUPERPOWER CONFRONTATION. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE U.N.
SECURITY COUNCIL -- FREE FROM THE CLASH OF COLD WAR
IDEOLOGIES -- FUNCTIONED AS ITS DESIGNERS INTENDED -- A
FORCE FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY.
- 9 -
IN THE GULF, NATIONS FROM EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA,
ASIA AND AFRICA AND THE ARAB WORLD JOINED TOGETHER TO
STOP AGGRESSION AND SENT A SIGNAL TO WOULD-BE TYRANTS
EVERYWHERE IN WORLD. BY JOINING FORCES TO DEFEND ONE
SMALL NATION -- WE SHOWED THAT WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
AGAINST AGGRESSORS, IN DEFENSE OF PRINCIPLE.
WE ALSO RECOGNIZED THAT THE COLD WAR'S END DIDN'T
DELIVER US INTO AN ERA OF PERPETUAL PEACE. AS OLD
THREATS RECEDE, NEW THREATS EMERGE. THE QUEST FOR THE
NEW WORLD ORDER IS IN PART A CHALLENGE TO KEEP THE
DANGERS OF DISORDER AT BAY.
TODAY, KUWAIT IS FREE. BUT TURMOIL IN THAT
TORMENTED REGION OF THE WORLD CONTINUES. SADDAM'S
CONTINUED SAVAGERY HAS PLACED HIS REGIME OUTSIDE THE
INTERNATIONAL ORDER. WE WILL NOT INTERFERE IN IRAQ'S
CIVIL WAR. THE IRAQI PEOPLE MUST DECIDE THEIR OWN
POLITICAL FUTURE. //
- 10 -
-- (PAUSE) --
LOOKING OUT HERE AT YOU AND THINKING OF YOUR
FAMILIES, LET ME COMMENT FURTHER --
WE SET OUT OUR OBJECTIVES. THESE OBJECTIVES,
SANTIONED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED.
I MADE VERY CLEAR THAT WHEN OUR OBJECTIVES WERE
OBTAINED THAT OUT TROOPS WOULD BE COMING HOME.
YES, WE WANT THE SUFFERING OF THE REFUGEES TO STOP
AND IN KEEPING WITH OUR NATION'S COMPASSION AND CONCERN
WE ARE MASSIVELY HELPING.
BUT, YES I WANT OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND BACK
HOME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
INTERNAL CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN RAGING IN IRAQ FOR
MANY YEARS.
WE ARE HELPING OUT AND WILL CONTINUE TO HELP THE
REFUGEES.
BUT, I DO NOT WANT ONE SINGLE SOLDIER OR AIRMAN
SHOVED INTO A CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ.
- 11 -
THE COALITION'S HISTORIC EFFORT DESTROYED SADDAM'S
ABILITY TO UNDERTAKE AGGRESSION AGAINST ANY NEIGHBOR.
BUT NOW, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL FURTHER
GUARANTEE THAT SADDAM'S ABILITY TO THREATEN HIS
NEIGHBORS IS COMPLETELY ELIMINATED BY DESTROYING IRAQ'S
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. AS I JUST MENTIONED, WE
WILL CONTINUE TO HELP THE IRAQI REFUGEES -- THE
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS OF SADDAM'S BRUTALITY
-- RECEIVE FOOD, SHELTER AND SAFETY, AND THE
OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN UNHARMED TO THEIR HOMES. WE WILL
NOT TOLERATE ANY INTERFERENCE IN THIS MASSIVE
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF EFFORT. IRAQ CAN RETURN TO THE
COMMUNITY OF NATIONS ONLY WHEN ITS LEADERS ABANDON THE
BRUTALITY AND REPRESSION THAT IS DESTROYING THEIR
COUNTRY. WITH SADDAM IN POWER, IRAQ WILL REMAIN A
"PARIAH" NATION. ITS PEOPLE DENIED MORAL CONTACTS WITH
MOST OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD. //
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WE MUST BUILD ON THE SUCCESSES OF DESERT STORM TO
GIVE NEW SHAPE AND MOMENTUM TO THIS NEW WORLD ORDER, TO
USE FORCE WISELY AND EXTEND THE HAND OF COMPASSION
WHEREVER WE CAN. TODAY, WE WELCOME EUROPE'S
WILLINGNESS TO SHOULDER A LARGE SHARE OF THIS
RESPONSIBILITY.
THIS NEW SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART OF OUR
EUROPEAN ALLIES IS MOST EVIDENT -- AND MOST CRITICAL
-- IN EUROPE'S EASTERN HALF. THE NATIONS OF EASTERN
EUROPE -- FOR SO LONG THE "OTHER EUROPE" -- MUST TAKE
THEIR PLACE ALONGSIDE THEIR NEIGHBORS TO THE WEST.
JUST AS WE HAVE OVERCOME EUROPE'S POLITICAL DIVISION
-- WE MUST HELP THE EAST CROSS OVER FROM POVERTY INTO
PROSPERITY.
- 13 -
THE UNITED STATES WILL DO ITS PART -- AS WE HAVE IN
REDUCING POLAND'S OFFICIAL DEBT BURDEN TO THE U.S. BY
70%, AND INCREASING OUR ASSISTANCE THIS YEAR TO EASTERN
EUROPE BY 50%. BUT THE KEY TO HELPING THESE NEW
DEMOCRACIES DEVELOP IS TRADE AND INVESTMENT. THE NEW
ENTREPRENEURS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND AND HUNGARY
AREN'T LOOKING TO GOVERNMENT -- THEIR OWN OR OTHERS --
TO SHOWER THEM WITH RICHES. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR NEW
OPPORTUNITIES -- NEW FREEDOM FOR THE PRODUCTIVE GENIUS
STRANGLED BY FORTY YEARS OF STATE CONTROL.
YESTERDAY MY ESTEEMED FRIEND, PRESIDENT HAVEL OF
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, CALLED TO REQUEST ADVISE AND HELP FROM
THE WEST. CZECHOSLOVAKIA WANTS TO BE DEMOCRATIC AND
WILL BE. ITS ECONOMY MOVING FROM A FAILED SOCIALIST
MODEL TO A MARKET ECONOMY. WE, ALL, MUST HELP. ITS
NOT EASY TO CONVERT STATE OWNED AND OPERATED WEAPONS
PLANTS INTO MARKET DRIVEN PLANTS TO PRODUCE CONSUMER
GOODS; BUT THESE NEW DEMOCRACIES CAN DO JUST THAT WITH
THE PROPER ADVICE AND HELP FROM THE WEST. IT IS IN OUR
OWN INTEREST THAT CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND, HUNGARY
STRENGTHEN THEIR FLEDGLING DEMOCRACIES AND THEIR MARKET
ECONOMIES.
- 14 -
WE RECOGNIZE THAT NEW ROLES AND EVEN NEW
INSTITUTIONS ARE NATURAL OUTGROWTHS OF THE NEW EUROPE.
WHETHER IT IS THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY OR A BROADENED
MANDATE FOR THE C.S.C.E., THE U.S. SUPPORTS ALL EFFORTS
TO FORGE A EUROPEAN APPROACH TO COMMON CHALLENGES, ON
THE CONTINENT AND IN THE WORLD BEYOND: WITH THE
UNDERSTANDING THAT EUROPE'S LONG-TERM SECURITY IS
INTERTWINED WITH AMERICA'S -- AND THAT NATO REMAINS THE
BEST MEANS TO ASSURE IT.
AND WE LOOK TO EUROPE TO ACT AS A FORCE FOR
STABILITY OUTSIDE ITS OWN BORDERS. IN A WORLD AS
INTERDEPENDENT AS OURS, NO INDUSTRIALIZED NATION CAN
MAINTAIN MEMBERSHIP IN GOOD STANDING IN THE GLOBAL
COMMUNITY WITHOUT ASSUMING ITS FAIR SHARE OF
RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEACE AND SECURITY.
- 15 -
BUT EVEN IN THE FACE OF SUCH WELCOME CHANGE,
AMERICANS WILL REMAIN IN EUROPE IN SUPPORT OF HISTORY'S
MOST SUCCESSFUL ALLIANCE -- NATO. AMERICA'S COMMITMENT
IS THE BEST GUARANTEE OF A SECURE EUROPE, AND A SECURE
EUROPE IS VITAL TO AMERICAN INTERESTS AND WORLD PEACE.
THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL LOGIC OF THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE,
WHICH ANCHORS AMERICA IN EUROPE.
THIS CENTURY'S HISTORY SHOWS THAT AMERICA'S DESTINY
AND INTERESTS CANNOT BE SEPARATE FROM EUROPE'S.
THROUGH THE LONG YEARS OF COLD WAR AND CONFLICT, THE
UNITED STATES STOOD FAST FOR FREEDOM IN EUROPE. NOW,
AS EASTERN EUROPE OPENS TO DEMOCRATIC IDEALS, TRUE
PROGRESS BECOMES POSSIBLE. //
- 16 -
THE SOVIET UNION IS ENGAGED IN ITS OWN DRAMATIC
TRANSFORMATION. THE POLICIES OF CONFRONTATION ABROAD
-- LIKE THE DISCREDITED DOGMA OF COMMUNISM FROM WHICH
THOSE POLICIES SPRANG -- LIES DORMANT IF NOT MORTALLY
WOUNDED. MUCH HAS CHANGED. THE PATH OF INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION FOSTERED BY PRESIDENT GORBACHEV -- AND
MANIFESTED MOST CLEARLY IN THE PERSIAN GULF -- MARKS A
RADICAL CHANGE IN SOVIET BEHAVIOR.
YET, THE COURSE OF CHANGE WITHIN THE SOVIET UNION
IS FAR LESS CLEAR. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REFORM IS
UNDER SEVERE CHALLENGE. SOVIET CITIZENS -- FACING THE
COLLAPSE OF THE OLD ORDER WHILE THE NEW STILL STRUGGLES
TO BE BORN -- CONFRONT DESPERATE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
-- THEIR HARD-WON FREEDOMS IN PERIL. ANCIENT ETHNIC
ENMITIES, CONFLICT BETWEEN REPUBLICS -- AND BETWEEN
REPUBLICS AND THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT -- ADD TO THESE
MONUMENTAL CHALLENGES.
- 17 -
AMERICA'S POLICY TOWARD THE SOVIET UNION IN THIS
TROUBLED TIME IS -- FIRST AND FOREMOST -- TO CONTINUE
OUR EFFORTS TO BUILD THE COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIP THAT
HAS ALLOWED OUR NATIONS AND SO MANY OTHERS TO
STRENGTHEN INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND STABILITY. AT THE
SAME TIME, WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT A REFORM PROCESS
WITHIN THE U.S.S.R. AIMED AT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
FREEDOM: A PROCESS WE BELIEVE MUST BE BUILT ON
PEACEFUL DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATION. THIS IS A POLICY WE
WILL ADVOCATE STEADFASTLY -- BOTH IN OUR DISCUSSIONS
WITH THE CENTRAL SOVIET GOVERNMENT AND WITH ALL
ELEMENTS ACTIVE IN SOVIET POLITICAL LIFE.
LET THERE BE NO MISUNDERSTANDING: THE PATH AHEAD
FOR THE SOVIET UNION WILL BE DIFFICULT -- AND AT TIMES
PAINFUL. HISTORY WEIGHS HEAVILY ON ALL THE PEOPLES OF
THE U.S.S.R. LIBERATION FROM 70 YEARS OF COMMUNISM --
FROM 1000 YEARS OF AUTOCRACY -- WILL BE SLOW. THERE
WILL BE SETBACKS. BUT THIS PROCESS OF REFORM -- THIS
TRANSFORMATION FROM WITHIN -- MUST PROCEED, IF EXTERNAL
COOPERATION, AND OUR PROGRESS TOWARD TRUE INTERNATIONAL
PEACE, IS TO ENDURE.
- 18 -
ONLY WHEN THIS TRANSFORMATION IS COMPLETE WILL WE
BE ABLE TO TAKE FULL MEASURE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES
PRESENTED BY THIS NEW, AND EVOLVING, WORLD ORDER. //
THE NEW WORLD ORDER REALLY IS A TOOL FOR ADDRESSING
A NEW WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES. THIS ORDER GAINS ITS
MISSION AND SHAPE NOT JUST FROM SHARED INTERESTS, BUT
FROM SHARED IDEALS. AND THE IDEALS THAT HAVE SPAWNED
NEW FREEDOMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD HAVE RECEIVED THEIR
BOLDEST AND CLEAREST EXPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES.
NEVER BEFORE HAS THE WORLD LOOKED MORE TO THE
AMERICAN EXAMPLE. NEVER BEFORE HAVE SO MANY MILLIONS
DRAWN HOPE FROM THE AMERICAN IDEA. //
- 19 -
THE REASON IS SIMPLE: AMERICA IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER
NATION IN THE WORLD. AS AMERICANS, WE ENJOY PROFOUND
AND MYSTERIOUS BONDS OF AFFECTION AND IDEALISM. WE
FEEL OUR DEEP CONNECTIONS TO COMMUNITY, TO FAMILIES, TO
OUR FAITHS. BUT WHAT DEFINES THIS NATION -- WHAT MAKES
US AMERICAN -- IS NOT OUR TIES TO A PIECE OF TERRITORY,
OR BONDS OF BLOOD. WHAT MAKES US AMERICAN IS OUR
ALLEGIANCE TO AN IDEA: THAT ALL PEOPLE -- EVERYWHERE
-- MUST BE FREE. 11 THIS IDEA IS AS OLD AND ENDURING
AS THIS NATION ITSELF -- AS DEEPLY ROOTED IN WHAT WE
ARE AS THE PROMISE IMPLICIT TO ALL THE WORLD IN THE
WORDS OF OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. //
THE NEW WORLD FACING US IS A WORLD OF DISCOVERY, A
WORLD DEVOTED TO UNLOCKING THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM. IT
IS NO MORE STRUCTURED THAN A DREAM, NO MORE REGIMENTED
THAN AN INNOVATOR'S BURST OF INSPIRATION.
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IF WE TRUST OURSELVES AND OUR VALUES, IF WE RETAIN
THE PIONEER'S ENTHUSIASM FOR EXPLORING THE WORLD BEYOND
OUR SHORES -- IF WE STRIVE TO ENGAGE IN THE WORLD THAT
BECKONS US -- THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL AMERICA BE TRUE
TO ALL THAT IS BEST IN US. 11
MAY GOD BLESS THIS GREAT NATION -- THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
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ATIONS
PART ONE: GENERALITIES
69
Jean Paul RICHTER, 1763-1825
IS soldiers consists in skill in the use of
ises from the practice of firing at birds and
A battlefield is at once the playroom of all the gods and the dancehall of all the
oods, of an extensive continent.
furies.
: and Economy of Armies, 1845
Titan, 1803
William COBBETT, 1763-1835
I like soldiers, as a class in life, better than any other description of men. Their
ought; for that very reason it is the most
conversation is more pleasing to me; they have generally seen more than other
men; they have less of vulgar prejudices about them. Amongst soldiers less than
amongst any other description of men, have I observed the vices of lying and
hypocrisy.
RAND-Périgord, 1754-1838
The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament, 1834
John Quincy ADAMS, 1767-1848
e left to military men.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be
unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions, and her prayers. But
she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
Speech in Washington DC, 4th July 1821
1804
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (Napoleon I), 1769-1821
regular and disciplined army can only be
same kind.
First I engage, then I see what can be done.
Remark made during the Italian war of 1796
In war, moral considerations account for three-quarters, the balance of actual
forces only for the other quarter.
Letter, 27th August 1808
Plans of campaign may be modified, ad infinitum, according to circumstances,
the genius of the general, the character of the troops, and the features of the
country.
Military Maxims, selected and translated by Colonel D'Aguilar, 1831: ii
805
When the conquest of a country is undertaken by two or three armies, which have
each their separate line of operation, until they arrive at a point fixed upon for
their concentration, it should be laid down as a principle, that the junction should
never take place near the enemy, because the enemy in uniting his forces, may not
only prevent it, but beat the armies in detail.
Military Maxims, selected and translated by Colonel D'Aguilar, 1831 iv
All wars should be governed by certain principles, for every war should have a
definite object, and be conducted according to the rules of art. War should only
be undertaken with forces proportioned to the obstacles to be overcome.
Military Maxims, selected and translated by Colonel D'Aguilar, 1831:
At the commencement of a campaign, to advance or not to advance, is a matter for
ory', 1794
grave consideration, but when once the offensive has been assumed, it must be
sustained to the last extremity. However skilful the manoeuvres, a retreat will
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Gen. Boyd intro
Gen. Merrill McPeak COS USAF
2300
Gov, Guy Hunt
Mayor Emony Folmer (R)
Sen. Heflin
Rep. Dickinson
AFI
Bill Cabaniss
Col. Strickland 205/263 7668 (h)
Montgomery Signal
Craig Ray
McGroarty/Dooley
April 11, 1991
4:30 pm
[AIR]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: AIR UNIVERSITY, MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
APRIL 13, 1990
9:00 AM
students
General Boyd, friends -- and fellow airmen: It is my great
faculty
officers
pleasure to look out across this sea of blue -- to meet this
morning with the men and women of Air University. //
The history of aviation has been shaped here since the
Wright brothers brought their strange new "mechanical bird" to
Montgomery and housed it in a hangar not far from where we now
stand. This institution, from its early days as the Air Corps
Tactical School, has defined the nation's air strategy and
tactics. It has guided our operations over the fields of Europe
and the seas of the Pacific -- from the First World War to the
thousand hours of DESERT STORM. //
Here at Air University, it's your business to read the
lessons of the past with an eye on the far horizon. That's why
I've chosen to speak today about the new world taking shape
around us -- about the prospects for a new world order now within
our reach. //
For more than four decades, we have lived in a world divided
-- East from West. A world locked in a conflict of arms and
ideas called the Cold War. Two systems -- two superpowers --
separated by mistrust and unremitting hostility. //
That war is over. Think of the transformations taking place
in the last six months alone. East Germany has vanished from the
Bernauer nument strasse
2
map. Today in free Berlin, the wall that once divided a
continent and a world has been pulverized, turned into souvenirs.
The section that remains standing is but a museum piece.
The triumph of freedom swept communism away. Yet the world
hardly seemed to notice: The Warsaw Pact passed into the pages
of history, not with a bang but with a whimper -- its demise
reported in a story on page A16 of the Washington Post. //
What a change: For more than four decades, America's
energies were focused on containing the threat to the free world
from the forces of communism. Now we must move beyond
containment -- to a policy of active engagement in our new world.
Let me focus for a moment on what we mean by this phrase,
"the new world order." In one respect, the new world we seek is
hardly new at all. It is at least as old as the hopes and dreams
of 1919 and 1945 -- hopes for a world blessed with widening
democracy -- a growing commonwealth of freedom. //
Yet when we speak of a new order, we're not talking about a
blueprint that will govern the conduct of nations. We're not
talking about some supranational structure or institution. We're
not talking about surrendering our national sovereignty or
forfeiting our interests.
We're really describing a responsibility imposed by our
successes. We're talking about new ways of working with our
allies to achieve stability, prosperity and peace. ///
I would like to talk about three dimensions -- military,
political and economic -- of this order. //
3
Begin with military strength. The crisis in the Gulf served
as the crucible of this new order. Thirty nations -- from
Europe and North America, Asia and Africa and the Arab world --
joined forces, stopped aggression and sent a signal to would-be
tyrants everwhere in world. We showed that we can work together
in defense of principle. //
At the same time, we learned that the Cold War's end didn't
deliver us into an era of perpetual peace. As old threats
recede, new threats emerge. The quest for the new world order is
in part a challenge to keep the dangers of disorder at bay.
Enmities and ethnic rivalries frozen during the Cold War
have re-emerged -- have flared into feuds that could engulf
nations, destabilize continents. From the Baltics in the north
to Yugoslavia in the south -- across each of the Soviet Union's
republics -- nations within nations struggle to assert
themselves. //
At the same time, renegade regimes pose new threats to
peace. Saddam Hussein, unfortunately, is not the world's only
international outlaw. By the year 2000, as many as 15 nations
may have both weapons of mass destruction and the ballistic
missiles to deliver them. Many of these regimes will take orders
from leaders who are more rash than rational -- who are less
likely to be dissuaded from outlaw acts by theories of deterrence
than by our real determination to prevent aggression. //
4
Our Gulf success demands that we think carefully about how
best to use our might. Already, we can identify several lessons
on the use of military force.
The first concerns doctrine and strategy. In DESERT STORM,
we demonstrated the true strength of joint operations: Not the
notion that each service must participate in equal part in every
operation of every war -- but that we use the proper tools at the
proper time. In DESERT STORM, the proper tool -- the decisive
tool -- was airpower. //
Just one week into the war, the allied air campaign had
plunged Iraq's Armed Forces into a strategic death spiral. As a
result, our ground war lasted only 100 hours. To a remarkable
degree, our technology, training and tactics ensured miminal
losses to allied forces. Our precise air strikes spared the
lives of innocent civilians.
//
The second lesson learned in the Gulf War confirms one of
the oldest military maxims. In the words of Napoleon: "the
moral is to the material as three is to one." // The tools and
technology of war may change, but the nature of war remains the
same. Whether it's the horseman in the saddle or the pilot in
the cockpit -- a warrior's heart must burn with the will to
fight. If his cause is just, his will can turn the war. If he
fights, but does not believe -- no technology can save him. //
In the Gulf War, America and its allies had more than
superior weapons -- we had the will to win. //
5
You demonstrated that will in Desert Storm. America's
highest ranking POW in DESERT STORM -- Lt. Col. David Eberly --
is an alumnus of the Air College, class of '89.
This human factor at the center of your studies is
personified by the man who leads you. General Boyd served in
Vietnam -- 105 combat missions, before he was shot down on a
mission over Hanoi. He spent almost seven years -- 2500 cruel
days -- in captivity. Yet he emerged, brave and unbroken. He
kept the faith -- to himself, and to his nation --in a war in
which this nation too often broke faith with its fighting men.
General Boyd knows first-hand what it means when we make the
solemn pledge -- there will be "No more Vietnams. " //
Thus, the third lesson learned in the Gulf concerns the use
of American military power:
Whenever American troops go into combat, we must go armed
with a clear objective -- one we can meet militarily. Whenever
American troops go into combat, we must be sure the cause is
right -- one the public can support. Finally, whenever American
troops go into combat, we must make the decision to achieve our
objectives swiftly, with as little cost in lives as possible.
The force we employ must be decisive -- and yet discriminate. //
America and its allies enjoyed each of these crucial
advantages in the Gulf War. Our forces -- our cause --
prevailed. Today, Kuwait is free. //
In Iraq, even now, the agony continues. As much as each
fresh proof of the savagery of Saddam Hussein sickens us -- as
6
much as we agonize over the miseries of the Kurds in the North
and the Shiites in the South -- we cannot commit American troops
to combat with no clear military aim. We've been urged to do
just that -- by people who seem to expect the U.S. to act as some
sort of "beat cop" policing every nation's internal conflicts. I
ask them to take a look at the realities. To look at the
mountainous terrain of northern Iraq -- at the mass migration of
millions of refugees -- at the inability to separate civilians
from combatants -- and to see the use of American force in these
circumstances as an invitation to disaster. We would risk
sending our men and women to death, while placing many innocent
people at risk. //
I think the American people understand that we can render
humanitarian aid. We can work in concert with other nations to
to ensure a safe haven for the refugees from Saddam's regime --
and to seek an end to this savagery. But we cannot put our young
men and women in the middle of Iraq's civil war. ///
Let me turn from these "lessons learned" in the Gulf, to the
second dimension I want to consider today -- to the political
landscape of our new world. //
No continent has experienced more rapid change than Europe.
For forty years, Europe stood on the fault line of East-West
conflict. Today, a tranformed Europe stands closer than ever
before to its free and democratic destiny.
We've struggled for 45 years to fulfill that destiny.
Today, we look to an increasingly united Europe -- whole and free
7
-- to shoulder a larger share of the security burden on its own
continent. And we look to Europe to follow its positive
precedent in the Gulf, to act as a force for stability outside
its own borders. In a world as interdependent as ours, no
industrialized nation can afford to indulge the fantasy that it
can maintain membership in good standing in the global economy
without contributing its fair share to global security.
We recognize that new roles and even new institutions are a
natural outgrowth of the new Europe. Whether it is the European
Community, or a broadened mandate for the CSCE or other forms of
closer European integration -- the U.S. supports all efforts to
forge a unified European approach to common challenges, on the
continent and in the world beyond.
But even in the face of such welcome change -- the American
commitment to Europe remains. Through the long years of Cold War
and confict, the United States stood fast for freedom in Europe.
Now, as Eastern Europe opens to Western ideals, true partnership
becomes possible. If the new world order we speak about has real
meaning, America must remain engaged in Europe - and Europe must
share the burden of defending our common interests. //
Let me turn now to the third dimension -- the economic
dimension of this new world now taking shape.
From South America to southern Africa to the Far East, free
market reform now sweeps away the dead refuse of state socialism.
Capitalism generates prosperity and social progress by taking
advantage of people's natural abilities and dreams -- rather than
8
by trying to force human nature to fit some planner's mold.
Nations are reorganizing themselves to unleash the limitless
potential of the individual. //
For years, Marxists predicted that have-not nations would
rally around a scheme called the new international economic
order, to redistribute the world's wealth. They considered envy
a more powerful impulse than creation. They were wrong.
Today we see a world increasingly committed to the free
market -- toward a New World Economy based on creating wealth by
allowing enterprising individuals to reap the fruits of their
labors. //
In the global economy, the U.S. must remain a forceful
advocate for free trade: Here in our own hemisphere, as we work
toward a tri-lateral trade agreement linking the U.S., Canada,
and Mexico -- in South America, through the Enterprise for the
Americas initiative -- and in the global economy, through GATT
and the Uruguay Round. I have asked Congress to extend my fast-
track trade authority so that we can take advantage of the
opportunities presented by these trade talks. //
Trade holds forth the promise of prosperity and cooperation
for all, but only if we guard against the impulse to let healthy
economic competition degenerate into open economic conflict.
Many of our key security partners are our toughest economic
competitors. We should welcome this challenge, since it will
inspire all of us to produce more and better goods, to invent
products and processes that help us all.
9
Human dreams, fueled by the success of capitalism, pulled
down the Berlin Wall. It certainly would be strange for
Americans, us, who set that market revolution in motion, to erect
our own Wall of Protectionism. We must work with our allies to
ensure that in striving together to end the Cold War we have not
made the world safe for trade wars. //
As you can see, the new world order really is a world of
possibilities. In the midst of this new world stands America,
the only nation that combines economic and military might -- with
a moral force borne of its founding ideals. //
Never before has the world looked more to the American
example. Never before have so many millions drawn hope from the
American idea. //
The reason is simple: America is unlike any other nation in
the world. As Americans, we enjoy profound and mysterious bonds
of affection and idealism. We feel our deep connections to
community, to families, to our faiths. But what defines this
nation -- what makes us American -- is not our ties to a piece of
territory, or bonds of blood. What makes us American is our
allegiance to an idea: that all people -- everywhere -- must be
free. //
The new world beyond our borders is a world that suddenly
has discovered the principles that have shaped our nation for
more than 200 years. People see our land, and say: We want to
be like them. We want to enjoy their prosperity. We want to
share their joy. We want to emulate their goodness.
10
The new world is a world of discovery, a world devoted to
unlocking the promise of freedom. It is no more structured than
a dream, no more regimented than an innovator's burst of
inspiration. This world is rooted in ideals as old and enduring
as this nation itself -- as deeply rooted in what we are as the
promise implicit to all the world in the words of our Declaration
of Independence. //
We already have begun the work of reaching out and embracing
our opportunities. We have built a strong and flexible military.
We are promoting free markets and free trade around the world.
We are working with our allies -- throughout the world -- to
promote peace and stability. Ready to put America's power in
service of principle: The promise of this new world animates
American policy. //
If we trust ourselves and our values, if we retain the
pioneer's enthusiasm for exploring the world beyond our shores -
- if we strive to engage in the thrilling world that beckons us -
- then and only then will America be true to all that is best in
us. //
May God bless this great nation -- the United States of
America.
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281-4957 18 15
FRANCE
LT COL ALAIN ROCHE
DANIELLE (DANY)
3420 FOUNTAIN CIRCLE 36116
277-1201 33 1
GERMANY
LT COL HANS-PETER KOCH
BARBARA HELSA
5801 E. SHIRLEY LANE # 411
260-9513 28 17
GREECE
LT COL ZAHARIAS DAMIANAKIS
CATHRIN
3449 FOUNTAIN CIRCLE 36116
244-1702 14 3
INDIA
GP CAPT C. K. KRISHNATRI
KUSUM (ARR OCT 90)
BLDG 1429, RM 7053 36112
240-7053 29 9
INDONESIA
COL RICHARD HARYONG
TULIA (NOT HERE)
BLDG 1429, RM 7054 36112
240-7054 24 18
ISRAEL
LT COL ODED ROSENTHAL
MEIRA
3120 OLD DOBBIN ROAD 36116
271-5912 34 5
ISRAEL
LT COL SHMUEL ELDAR
AHUVA
3430 FOUNTAIN CIRCLE 36116
271-6067
19
8
ITALY
COL GIOVANNI L. DOMINI
DONATELLA
3567 CARTER HILL RD # 2051 36111
288-8029
16
9
IVORY COAST LT COL LEOPOLD D. GUIDY
MARIE FRANCE
BLDG 1429 RM 7064 36112
262-2118 21 6
JAPAN
LT COL TATEKI NISHII
TAEKO
5720-H VILLAS LANE 36116
260-9446 32 10
JORDAN
COL YAHYA ABIQWA G.
NAJAH F
1615 LONDON TOWN LANE 36117
272-3114 2 13
KENYA
COL JAMES P. GICHUHI
JANE
3340-B FOUNTAIN CIRCLE 36116
260-9844 20 12
KOKEA
COL CHONG, CHOL HD
MYONG SOOK
1262-D BASSETT DR. 36116
288-8558 12 12
PROMEA
COL KIM, HO DONG
JUNG SUK (ARR DEC 90)
BLDG 1429, RM 7058 36112
240-7058 25 17
MALAYSIA
COL JIN AIK KOAY
MILLY
3328-B FOUNTAIN LANE 36116
271-4159
1
3
MEXICO
COL JOSE V. GUTIERREZ
MARTHA F.
5617-6 CALMAR DR 36116
260-0066 22 7
MOROCCO
LT COL MOHAMMED SELLAK
JANICE TAYLOR
3157 ALLISON DR. 36116
286-8984 35 4
NEW ZEALAND HG CDR JOHN H. S. HAMILTON
SUSAN
1530 MERIWETHER RD 36112
260-0855 23 13
NIGERIA
GP CAPT NISIKAK-ABASI ESSIEN EDUCK NKESE N.
BLOG 1429, RM 7069 36112
240-7069
17
7
PAKISTAN
6P CAPT AZMAT KAZI
SHAHEEMA
1256-A BASSETT DR 36116
284-0172
27
7
PHILIPPINES COL VICENTE BELO
TERISITA (TITA)
5613-C CALMAR DRIVE 36116
277-3102
7
16
SAUDI ARABIA COL ADNAN AL-MADANI
RAMZIA
3403 FOUNTAIN CIRCLE 36118
279-7352 4 10
SAUDI ARABIA COL ABDULREHMAN AL-NOAH
HUSSAH S. ALHATLANI
2601 VAUGHN LAKES BLVD # 1627 36117
270-8466
5
18
SINGAPORE
LT COL K. K. SINGAM
RANGITHA "MALAR"
4621 NARROW LANE RD # 328 36116
281-2264 36 11
SPAIN
LT COL JESUS CERDAN
BLDG 1429, RM 7094 36112
240-7094 10 11
THAILAND
GP CAPT CHIRA YAMSORN
DUANGRAT
BLOG 1429, RM 7088 36112
240-7088 38 2
TURKEY
COL AYSUN IHSAN
6UL
5726-H VILLAS LANE 36116
272-3577 26 14
TURKEY
COL SALIH CETINKAYA
GUL
5724-D VILLAS LANE 36116
272-4339 11 16
UAE
LT COL ATEEQ JUMA M. AL-HAMELI
GHABSHA
512 LARKWOOD DR 36109
270-1215
3
1
LK
WG CDR JOHN STANLEY WILSON
JANE
2321 SAGEWOOD DR 36117
271-4821 37 2
UK
WG CDR DAVID H. MILNE-SMITH
SUSAN
306 ARROWHEAD DR 36117
279-7754 31 8
URUGUAY
COL EGO CORREA LUNA
NORA
3808 GOVERNOR'S DR # C-219 36111
286-0426 13 18
VENEZUELA
LT COL HECTOR CENTENO
LIGIA (ARR 1 AUG 901
BLDG 1428, RM 7021 36112
240-7021
9
15
INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS
Australia (2)
India
Korea (2)
Saudi Arabia (2)
Brazil
Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
Canada
Israel (2)
Mexico
Spain
Columbia
Italy
Monocco
Thailand
Egypt
Ivory Coast* New Zealand
Turkey (2)
France
Japan
Nigeria
UAE
Germany
Jordan
Pakistan
UK (2)
Greece
Kenya
Philippines Uruguay*
Venezuela
Total number of students: 39
AERO RATING
Total number of countries:33
36 Pilots
* First time represented
1 Navigator
2 Non-rated
APR 09 '91 14:56
P.4/4
OF DEPTNSE
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
AIR WAR COLLEGE (AU)
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, AL 36112-5522
STATES
S
AMERICA
1 Apr 91
TO: Ms Cawley
FROM: Col Strickland
Reference Mr Simon's questions from the Advanced Team visit.
1. 1910 - Wright Brothers established the first Civil Flying
School at Maxwell AFB AL.
2. Maxwell Air Force Base named for 2nd Lieutenant William C.
Maxwell, killed in an air accident 12 August 1920, in the
Philippines.
MAXWELL AFB
4/13/91
9:00 am
100'x X 200'
60' high
STEEL
0
$
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AF1
audience of 1500
faculty + students
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from Air U.
(AF capt. majors + cols,
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OPEN
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int ro of Pres. by LTGEN. Boyd
RUNWAT
Col. ar. Lord - Air U. Cdr.
Capt. Flading- PAO
Col. Strickland
Gen Boyden - intro Pres.
audience : col lt.col. Majort
1000
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protected King Fahd Base
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Giant US flag backdrop
132' X 80'
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depth
with
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8 100 X 200
1500 students + faculty big echo
City/State: Montgomery AL
Event: Manwell APPS
Date:
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3800 ABW / civil ENgrg
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Air War College
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WARREN TEED
3800 SVS
3-5333
Brabby STAN ford
3800 SUS
3-7390
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3800 L5/LGT
3-5787
GRADY HANNAH, Capt
1973 CO/LG
453-7071
S.ONLY F. COMBS
n /LGP
453-2704
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3800 ABW/Security
953-6933
TynoNE JohNsoN, msgt
3800 LS/LGM
953-6897
Jones Lew W.
3800 25/LGMQT
953-5045
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3800 LS/LGM9T
953-5045
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AIR FORCE ADVANCE
(703) 695-7105
Bob Simon
WH Speechwriting
202-456-7750
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WH POLITICAL AFFAIRS
202 456 6510
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Marine One Advance
(703) 640-2364
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Usss - BHM
(205) 731-1144
BiLL Copeland
usss Montgomery
205-223-7601
A COL BRYAN STRICKLAND
Awc/cv
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50s/cc
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City/State: Montgomery AL
Event:
Date:
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205-953-7753
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SECRET SERVICE (202) 395.4011
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3800ABW/OTM
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Spencer Geissinger WH Advance 202-456-7565
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