Air Commodore (ret.)
Garfield
Porter
Assistant Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre (2007-2010)
Air Commodore (ret.) Garfield Porter (RAF) has flown as a navigator, crew captain, flight commander and squadron commander on the Nimrod MPA. He also commanded RAF Kinloss in 2002 and, in 2006, completed an operational tour as the UK Air Component Commander Middle East. He was then Director Air & Space at the UK’s Doctrine, Concepts and Development Centre, before serving as Assistant Director Transformation at the JAPCC until he retired from the RAF in 2010. Since then, he has continued to work on Air & Space/C4ISR matters, sat on the UK Lib Dem Defence Policy Working Group, and consults on defence matters with a number of UK and international companies.
Information provided is current as of January 2017
From the Author
Swedish Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance and NATO
Past, Present and Future
By Mr
Dag
Åsvärn
By Prof.
Robert
Egnell
By Maj
Johan
Jakobsson
By Air Cdre
Garfield
Porter
Swedish Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance (TAR) has, like other parts of Swedish Armed Forces’ (SwAF) capability, followed shifts of emphasis in doctrine and practice. In particular, at the end of the Cold War, it moved from [...]
