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138. Royal Netherlands Air Force Air Power Doctrine, table of contents.
139. Ibid., II-3–II-8.
140. Ibid., table of contents; AP 3000, Royal Air Force Air Power Doctrine,
1991, vii; and AP 3000, Royal Air Force Air Power Doctrine, 2nd ed., 1993, vii.
141. Col Peter Wijninga, RNLAF (head, Policy Integration Branch), telephone
interview, 21 December 2004; and Col Peter Wijninga, RNLAF, head,
Policy Integration Branch, to the author, e-mail, 20 July 2005 (forwarded by Lt
Col Erik Wijers, RNLAF).
142. RNLAF, Airpower Doctrine (The Hague: RNLAF, April 2002), 1, 84, 86–87.
143. Ibid., 98–101.
144. MOD, Netherlands, Netherlands Defence Doctrine, trans. Netherlands
Ministry of Defence Translation Service (Netherlands Defence Staff: The
Hague, 2005), i.
145. Lt Col (Dr.) Marcel de Haas, Royal Netherlands Army (Netherlands
Institute of International Relations, Clingendael), telephone interview by the
author, 17 August 2007. During his most recent assignment at the Defence
Staff, De Haas was responsible for the drafting of the first edition of the Netherlands
Defence Doctrine.
146. Lt Col Eric A. de Landmeter, head, Joint Doctrine Branch, MOD, The
Hague, to the author, e-mail, 30 June 2010.
147. Air Commodore J. T. Bakker, “Air Power in Peace and Humanitarian
Operations: A Dutch Perspective” (paper presented at the RNLAF Air Power
Colloquium, “Air Power: Theory and Application,” The Hague, 24–28 November
1997).
148. Col Lex Kraft van Ermel, RNLAF, former director of studies, NDC, to
the author, e-mails, 13 June and 22 June 2005.
149. Col Jan F. W. van Angeren, RNLAF, retired, to the author, e-mail, 9
January 2006.
150. Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, retired, professor and associate dean,
SAASS, to the author, e-mail, 9 July 2004.
151. Ibid., 21 December 2005; and Lt Col Vincent Scharrenberg, RNLAF,
NDC, The Hague, to the author, e-mail, 9 January 2006.
152. Dr. Grant T. Hammond, director, Center for Strategy and Technology,
USAF, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL, to the author, e-mail, 1 July 2004.
153. Syllabus, Strategy, Doctrine, and Air Power Course, 2000–2001, NDC,
The Hague, 2–4.
154. Ibid., 12.
155. Van Ermel to the author, e-mail, 13 June 2005.
156. Ibid.
157. Ibid.
158. Ibid.
159. For symposia during the Cold War, see, for instance, RNLAF Air
Power Symposium, “The Future of Air Power,” The Hague, 13–14 October 1988.
160. RNLAF Air Power Symposium, “Air power en doctrinevorming [Air
power and doctrine development],” The Hague, 21 September 1995; and RNLAF