The Quest for Relevant Air Power

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man-portable air defence system, 91, 167–68,
231, 293
Maple Flag (multinational integrated air exercise),
23, 26, 100, 179, 205, 238, 299
Maritime Helicopter Group (Netherlands), 230
Martel anti-radiation missile, 125
Mason, Tony, 252–53, 311, 313
Maverick air-to-ground missile, 243, 257,
316–17
Maxwell AFB, Alabama, 42, 311
Mazar-i-Sharif, 108, 156, 180, 184
MCCE. See Movement Coordination Centre
Europe
MEADS. See Medium Extended Air Defence
System
medevac, 174, 182–83, 185–86, 199
medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely
piloted aircraft, 62, 130–31, 181, 201, 204,
263, 339, 344
Medium Extended Air Defence System, 202
Meilinger, Phillip S., 310, 313, 356
memorandum of understanding, 25, 54, 81,
234, 236
Meteor air-to-air missile, 58, 125, 196, 318
MICA air-to-air missile, 123, 125
Middle East, 14, 27, 37, 86, 105, 244, 246, 285
midlife update, 226, 228, 235, 255–56, 261–62,
290, 319
MIDS. See multifunctional information distribution
system
MiG-29. See under aircraft by designation
Milosevic, Slobodan, 35
Mirage. See under aircraft by designation
Mission de l’Organisation des Nations Unies
en République Démocratique du Congo
(UN mission in the Democratic Republic
of Congo), 305–6
Mitchell, William, 119, 189
Mitterrand, François, 83, 92, 102
MLU. See midlife update
Mogadishu, 182, 304
Montenegro, 106
Moseley, Michael, 107
Mostar city, 34, 111
MOU. See memorandum of understanding
Movement Coordination Centre Europe, 26,
174
MRT. See multirole transport
MRTT. See multirole transport tanker
Mueller, Karl, 253
multifunctional information distribution
system, 63, 130, 134, 196, 201, 322, 359
multirole aircraft, 56–58, 92, 316, 341, 343,
357–58
multirole transport, 128, 171, 198–99
multirole transport tanker, 128, 171, 198, 344
Muslim enclaves, 34
MW-1 submunitions dispenser system, 197
NAEW&CF. See NATO Airborne Early Warning
and Control Force
Nairobi, Kenya, 305
NASAMS. See Norwegian Advanced Surfaceto-Air
Missile System
NATD. See Netherlands Apache Training
Detachment
National Air Defence Operations Centre
(Nationales Lage- und Führungszentrum—
Sicherheit im Luftraum), 162–63
NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control
Force, 22, 54, 61, 172, 205
NATO Air Meet (multinational integrated air
exercise), 299
NATO Response Force, 21, 23, 26, 95–98,
100–101, 132, 135, 158, 172, 181, 204–6,
232, 234, 236, 342, 348, 352
NATO’s central region, 9, 81, 88, 202
NATO’s integrated military command structure,
21, 81–83, 94–95, 132
NATO’s Military Committee, 94
NBG. See Nordic Battle Group
NDC. See Netherlands Defence College
NDD. See Netherlands Defence Doctrine
NDSO. See Netherlands Detachment Springfield
Ohio
Netherlands Apache Training Detachment,
237, 262
Netherlands Defence College, 250, 252–54
Netherlands Defence Doctrine, 250
Netherlands Detachment Springfield Ohio, 237
network-centric warfare, 43, 192, 201, 320
New Defence, The (1999/2000 government
bill, Sweden), 282, 284, 286
New Defence 1997–2015, A, 83, 86
NFZ. See no-fly zone
NH90 helicopter. See under aircraft by designation
no-fly zone, 27, 30–31, 103–4, 111, 177
Nordic Air Meet, 299
Nordic Battle Group, 286, 294–95, 298–99,
305–6, 319, 325–26, 348–49
North Atlantic Council, 19–20, 94
Northern Watch (Operation), 9, 29, 132
Norway, 23, 26, 34, 36, 54, 227, 236, 243, 252,
255, 286, 299, 341
Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile
System, 264
Norwegian Air Force, 189, 280, 302
Norwegian Defence University College, 312
NRF. See NATO Response Force