ARTICLES
Ten Days to Kamikaze – Part IV – 16-18 October – Admiral Onishi Arrives at 1st Air Fleet Headquarters
Ten Days to Kamikaze is a series that explores the decision-making process and implementation of Japan’s use of suicidal crash dives during World War II. It provides an in-depth review of the critical ten-day period and examines the background...
Ten Days to Kamikaze – Part III – The Ten Days
Ten Days to Kamikaze is a series that explores the decision-making process and implementation of Japan’s use of suicidal crash dives during World War II. It provides an in-depth review of the critical ten-day period and examines the background...
Ten Days to Kamikaze – Part II – “The Kamikaze Idea”
Ten Days to Kamikaze is a series that explores the decision-making process and implementation of Japan’s use of suicidal crash dives during World War II. It provides an in-depth review of the critical ten-day period and examines the background...
Ten Days to Kamikaze – Part I
Ten Days to Kamikaze is a series that explores the decision-making process and implementation of Japan's use of suicidal crash dives during World War II. It provides an in-depth review of the critical ten-day period and examines the background...
Japanese Air Raid on Calcutta – December 1943
The Japanese air raid on Calcutta, India on December 5, 1943, while perhaps not of immense importance compared to many other events of World War Two, provides interesting perspective on the forces and tactics of the combatants in southeast Asia...
Okumura’s Ten Victory Day (14 September 1943)
This article constitutes a preliminary effort to relate the victory claims of Chief Petty Officer Takao Okumura on 14 September 1943 to Allied activities and actual losses. Okumura’s ten victories in a single day are believed to constitute the...
Yap’s Air Campaign
Backwater to FrontlineYap Island was a Backwater of the Pacific War save for a brief period when it became the center of opposition to the bombers of the recently formed Far East Air Force (FEAF) of the United States Army Air Force. On June 15th,...
Japanese operations at Wakde Airfield on Wakde Island
Airfield ConstructionThe Japanese occupied Wakde Island in April 1942 after their successful campaign in the Netherlands East Indies. The Allies first noted an airfield being developed there in February 1943. By June a coral landing strip 5400 feet...
Japanese Side of Neel Kearby Mission
American Air Activity March 5, 1944 According to a mission summary in an intel report the 3 P-47s were over Wewak at 1715L (means L time zone not "local"). They encountered 3 NELLS, 8 TONYS and 4 OSCARS. They shot down 3 NELLS and only one OSCAR...
Additional Publications
- Tuluvu’s Air War (Cape Gloucester)
- Masao Yoshihara’s Story: May 14th-25th, 1943
- Error Oft Repeated – The Anabuki Hoax
- Murakami: September 11th, 1942 – The Rest of the Story
- First Kamikaze? Attack on HMAS Australia — October 21st, 1944
- 248th Hiko Sentai: A Japanese “Hard luck” Fighter Unit
University of New Hampshire Magazine
Book Reviews
- Ki-43 Hayabusa aces of World War 2 (via Wayback Machine)
- P-40 Warhawk vs. Ki-43 Oscar (via Wayback Machine)
- Jimmy Doolittle, Hap Arnold, and the Battle of Britain: The 100-Octane Story (2020)
- Uncertain Wings: Curtiss Hawk 75 in China (2008)
- Illusive Target: Bombing Japan from China (2006)
- Chennault and the Flying Tigers – Heroes but were they legal? (2005)
- Double Lucky? The Campaigns of the 77th Hiko Sentai (2005)
- Japanese aircraft code-names in perspective (2005)
- Curtiss-Wright CW-21 (2005)
- Vultee P-66 in Chinese Service (2005)
- Zero Model 21: Unraveling the performance data (2004)
- Republic P-43 and China’s Air War (2004)
- Nakajima Type 1 Model 1 Army Fighter (Ki-43-I) Armament — A Reassessment (2002, 2004)
Selected Legal Publications
Air Force Law Review
- “The Agency Defense in Sale of Drugs Cases” Volume 16 (1974)
- “Aspects of Malingering” Volume 17 (1975).
- “Military Pleading” Volume 17 (1975)
- “Air‑Sea Rescue Operations in Europe During World War II: Historical Perspective on a Footnote in International Law” Volume 21 (1979)
American Business Law Journal
- “Keeping Secrets in the Campus Lab”, Volume 39 (2002) [Outstanding article award, Volume 39; cited in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court]
Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research
- “Contractors in the 21st Century ‘Combat Zone’ (2005)
- “Contractors Supporting Military Operations” (2006)
- “Injecting New Ideas and New Approaches in Defense Systems: Are ‘Other Transactions’ an Answer?” (2009)
- “Contractors on The Battlefield: Resolving the Remaining Policy Issues” (2010)
- [PDFs available at NPS Acquisition Research Program repository]
The Air and Space Lawyer
- “Contractual Mechanisms in Support of Commercial Space Activities” Volume 1 (1984)
Additional legal articles with popular rather than primarily academic style have appeared in publications such as Aerospace America, Contract Management Magazine, Government Executive, Nash & Cibinic Report, and National Defense Magazine. Podcasts and other articles are available at strategicinstitute.org.
The Government Contractor
- “Feature Comment: Appropriate Contractual Instruments for R&D,” 59 GC ¶202 (2017)
- “Feature Comment: DOD Other Transactions Guide—A Breath of Fresh Air,” 60 GC ¶362 (2018)
- “Feature Comment: Thirty Years of Other Transactions,” 61 GC ¶ 347 (2019)
- “Feature Comment: New Administration: New Acquisition System?” 62 GC ¶ 344 (2020)
- “Feature Comment: Space Development Agency: Why Was Using an OT the Second Choice?” 63 GC ¶ 366 (2021)
- “Feature Comment: New Life and a New Number for Research Other Transactions,” 64 GC ¶ 63 (2022)
- “Feature Comment: New DOD Other Transactions Guide: Retreating from Innovation,” 65 GC ¶ 202 (2023)
[TGC is a subscription publication addressing legal aspects of government contracting aimed primarily at law firms, government legal offices and government contractors. In addition to lead articles cited above, TGC also contains several of my Practitioner’s Comments. Some of these articles are available at strategicinstitute.org]
Thompson Reuters Briefing Papers, Second Series
- “Uses of Other Transactions” (2023)
[see comments applicable to TGC above]