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62. Erwin van Loo, Crossing the Border: De Koninklijke Luchtmacht na de
val van de Berlijnse Muur (The Hague: Sectie Luchtmachthistorie van de Staf
van de Bevelhebber der Luchtstrijdkrachten, 2003), 749–50.
63. Droste, “Shaping Allied TBM Defence,” 50.
64. Dave L. Orr, “The Benelux Deployable Air Task Force: A Model for EU/
NATO Defense Force Integration,” Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Autumn
2003): 93.
65. GlobalSecurity.org, “F-16C/D Fighting Falcon,” http://www.globalsecurity
.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-16cd.htm, 19 March 2010.
66. Col Henk Bank, “Development of the EPAF [European Participating
Air Forces] Expeditionary Air Wing” (presentation, European Air Chiefs Conference,
Noordwijk Aanzee, Netherlands, 20 November 2003).
67. Memorandum of Understanding between the Minister of Defence of the
Kingdom of Belgium, the Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of Denmark, the
Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Minister of Defence of
the Kingdom of Norway and the Minister of State and National Defence of the
Portuguese Republic concerning the Establishment of the European Participating
Air Forces’ Expeditionary Air Wing (Istanbul, Turkey, 28 June 2004), secs. 3.3, 4.1.
68. Bank, “Development of the EPAF Expeditionary Air Wing.”
69. Maj Edwin Altena, RNLAF (Headquarters RNLAF, The Hague), interview
by the author, 23 June 2004.
70. MOD, Netherlands, Prinsjesdag Letter, 50–53.
71. Droste, “Shaping Allied TBM Defence,” 50–52.
72. Extended Air Defense Task Force, “History,” http://www.eadtf.org; and
Extended Air Defense Task Force, “Mission,” http://www.eadtf.org.
73. European Air Group, “History of the EAG.”
74. Nijean, “L’Armée de l’Air et l’Europe: gros plan—au coeur de l’Europe de
la défense,” 38.
75. Van der Mark, “Tall Ambitions for the Lowlands,” 42, 48.
76. Ibid., 45, 48.
77. Horner quoted in Olsen, “Effects-Based Targeting,” 52.
78. “For a New Dutch Defence Posture: Interview with Cornelis van der
Knaap, State Secretary for Defence of the Netherlands,” Military Technology 28,
no. 2 (2004): 48; and Lok to the author, e-mail.
79. Col Henk Bank (former head, Policy Integration Branch, RNLAF), interview
by the author, Royal College of Defence Studies, London, 4 May 2004.
80. Lt Col Peter Tankink, RNLAF, commander, 323 TACTESS, to the author,
e-mail, 11 July 2004.
81. Kees van der Mark, “Firing Patriots in Greece,” Air Forces Monthly, February
2010, 40.
82. Starink, briefing.
83. Lutgert and De Winter, Check the Horizon, 516.
84. Maj Gen Kees Homan, Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, retired
(Nether lands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael), interview by
the author, 22 June 2004.