" ... war is not simply organized violence. War is a political act, employing force to promote or defend a set of interests."



"If we are at war and we get the military strategy about right, people will be killed; if we get it wrong, lots of people will be killed."


"It is our duty to make our voices heard, to ensure we extend our expertise to the public strategic discourse; and to articulate our raison d'entre, unique character, and many contributions to national security. The United States of America is an air-, space-, and cyber-power nation that derives much of its global influence from the ability to act in and dominate these three war-fighting domains."

"I challenge each of you to have strategic effect by educating other Airmen, the American public, and our nation's leaders about the enduring value of air, space, and cyberspace for national security.



The Air Force is America's cross-domain, global-maneuver force. The power Airmen wield is at once strategic, operational, and tactical. So must be our habit of thought. At this time of war, and at this strategic crossroads, America could ask no more - and expect no less - from its Airmen."



The article can be found at this website: http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/ssq/2007/Fall/Moseley.pdf



--CSAF General T. Michael Moseley

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Something to Think About

Nobel Prize Winner Criticizes Bio-Fuels
In Madrid on September 12, the Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 1988, Hartmut Michel, criticized the development and use of bio-fuels, in an interview with a Spanish Newspaper, El Pais.

The scientist, who determined the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center, assured that fuels made from a vegetable origin are not a good option to fight global warming.

Michel estimates that bicarbonates do not cut back on emissions of CO2 but instead encourage deforestation of the Amazon Rain Forest and in other parts of the world.

He proposes to abolish the guideline set by the European Union that states 5.75% of all transportation that uses energy based on fossil fuels should be substituted by bio-fuels by the year 2010.

He acknowledges the importance of switching to a renewable energy source, but warned that bio-fuels are not neutral in the emission of CO2, saying that half of their energy content comes from a fossil source.

To produce ethanol, you need to invest enormous quantities of fossil based energy, for example, fertilizer, transportation, and alcohol distilling. In the end you end up emitting more CO2 that you do using traditional gasoline.

The bio-fuels you can produce per unit of surface space in one year, contains less than .4% of solar energy that would be received in the same amount of space over the same period of time.

To meet the electricity demand in Germany using bio-fuels, you would have to dedicate 100% of the surface space of the entire country to cultivate energy producing crops, stated the scientist.

In comparison, the photovoltaicas cellules are between 50 to 100 times more efficient and require less land.

Bio-fuels promote destruction of the tropical forest in Indonesia , Malaysia , some areas of Africa and in Brazil , where everyday they are planting more soy where there once was forest. The cutting and burning of the rain forest releases a colossal amount of carbon dioxide.

The efficiency of converting bio-mass into bio-fuels ranges between .15%-.3% while, that of photovoltaicas cellules already have an efficiency ranging between 15% and 20%, the German Nobel Prize winner pointed out. He proposes the use of solar energy instead of biofuels.

Article translated from Prensa Latina: Critica Premio Nobel desarrollo de los biocombustibles

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