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Air Power Symposium, “De rol van air power bij gezamenlijk optreden [The
role of air power in joint operations],” The Hague, 27 September 1996.
161. RNLAF Air Power Symposium, 15–19 April 1996; and RNLAF Air
Power Colloquium, 24–28 November 1997.
162. RNLAF Air Power Colloquium, “Coercive Air Strategies,” The Hague,
6–8 June 2000.
163. RNLAF Air Power Symposium, 19 November 2003, table of contents.
164. Lt Col Frans Osinga, RNLAF (Netherlands Institute of International
Relations, Clingendael), interview by the author, 24 June 2004; and Frans
Osinga, Science, Strategy and War (London: Routledge, 2006).
165. “Sustaining Modern Armed Forces,” interview with Dr. Jan Fledderus,
Netherlands national armaments director, Military Technology, no. 8 (1997): 19.
166. “We want the Best Materiel for the Best Price,” interview with Dr. Jan
Fledderus, Netherlands national armaments director, Military Technology 24,
no. 12 (December 2000): 26–27.
167. Dörfer, Arms Deal, 107.
168. Ibid., 106–8, 116, 122, 128–29.
169. D’Abramo, Military Trends in the Netherlands, 28–29.
170. De Winter and Van Loo, interview.
171. Maj Gen Marcel Wagevoort, “Materiel Projects in the RNLAF,” Defence
Procurement in the Netherlands, Military Technology, no. 8 (August 1997): 45.
172. Joris Janssen Lok, “RNLAF Concerns Increase over Targeting Pod Acquisition
Being Slow to Hit the Mark,” Jane’s International Defence Review,
April 2006, 6.
173. “Sustaining Modern Armed Forces,” 13.
174. De Winter and Van Loo, interview.
175. The Military Balance 2002–2003 (Oxford, England: Oxford University
Press for the IISS, October 2002), 51.
176. Droste, “Decisive Airpower Private,” 127.
177. MOD, Netherlands, Prinsjesdag Letter, 41.
178. Ibid., 41.
179. Van der Mark, “Tall Ambitions for the Lowlands,” 44–45.
180. De Winter and Van Loo, interview.
181. Van der Mark, “Tall Ambitions for the Lowlands,” 44.
182. Wagevoort, “Materiel Projects in the RNLAF,” 45.
183. Tankink to the author, e-mail, 21 January 2005.
184. MOD, Netherlands, Prinsjesdag Letter, 40–41.
185. Van der Mark, “Tall Ambitions for the Lowlands,” 44.
186. “Sustaining Modern Armed Forces,” 13.
187. Van Loo, Crossing the Border, 679.
188. Dreger, “JSF Partnership takes Shape,” 28–31.
189. See “Norway Commits Funding to Gripen Development,” Gripen
News, no. 1 (2007): 2, http://www.gripen.com.
190. John R. Kent, F-35 Lightning II Communications, Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics Co., to the author, e-mail, 3 August 2009; and Hans de Vreij,