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85. Kamp, address.
86. Lutgert and De Winter, Check the Horizon, 500.
87. Ibid., 500–501.
88. Rinus Nederlof, Blazing Skies: De Groepen Geleide Wapens van de Koninklijke
Luchtmacht in Duitsland, 1960–1995 (The Hague: Sectie Luchtmachthistorie
van de Staf van de Bevelhebber der Luchtstrijdkrachten, 2002), 534.
89. Ibid., 535.
90. Lutgert and De Winter, Check the Horizon, 503–4, 506, 508.
91. Ibid., 511.
92. Ibid., 514.
93. Ibid., 515.
94. Tankink to the author, e-mail, 21 January 2005; calculation of percentage
is based upon figures from Sargent, “Weapons Used in Deliberate Force,”
258, 265.
95. Owen, “Summary,” 491; and John A. Tirpak, senior editor, “Deliberate
Force,” Air Force Magazine 80, no. 10 (October 1997), https://www.afa.org
/_private/Magazine/Oct1997/1097deli.asp.
96. MOD, Netherlands, Defence White Paper 1991, 30.
97. Starink, briefing.
98. Lt Gen B. A. C. Droste, commander in chief, RNLAF, “Decisive Airpower
Private: The Role of the Royal Netherlands Air Force in the Kosovo Conflict,”
NATO’s Nations and Partners for Peace, no. 2 (1999): 129.
99. Lutgert and De Winter, Check the Horizon, 510.
100. Tankink to the author, e-mail, 11 July 2004; and Godderij, “Evolution
of Air Power Doctrine in the Netherlands.”
101. Lutgert and De Winter, Check the Horizon, 511.
102. Air Commodore J. L. H. Eikelboom, RNLAF (Headquarters RNLAF,
The Hague), interview by the author, 22 June 2004.
103. Lt Gen H. J. W. Manderfeld, retired, commander in chief, RNLAF,
1992–95, to the author, e-mail, 27 December 2004.
104. Droste, “Decisive Airpower Private,” 127–28; and Rolf de Winter and
Erwin van Loo (RNLAF History Unit, The Hague), interview by the author, 24
June 2004.
105. MOD, UK, Kosovo: Lessons from the Crisis, Report to Parliament by the
Secretary of State for Defence (London: The Stationery Office, 2000), annex f;
calculation of percentage is based upon figures from Cordesman, Lessons and
Non-Lessons, 4.
106. Clark, Waging Modern War, 197–98.
107. Adm Lukas Kroon, retired, chief of defence staff 1998–2004, Netherlands
armed forces, to the author, e-mail, 5 January 2005 (forwarded by Maj
Gen Kees Homan, Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, retired, Netherlands Institute
of International Relations, Clingendael).
108. MOD, Netherlands, “Latest News of the Ministry of Defence,” The
Hague, 5 April 2002, accessed 14 June 2004, http://www.defensie.nl; and ibid.,
27 June 2002, accessed 14 June 2004.