Airborne early-warning and control and aerial refuelling programmes will allow extended operations into the South China Sea, says the report.
Since the aerial spraying programme began, the area devoted to drugs cultivation in Colombia has tripled.
Under the codename The Moby Dick Project (named after a cold war aerial spy programme the US conducted over Russia), Huh begins his missive on what newspapers have been doing wrong all these years.
After the World Health Organisation's cancer research arm found that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic", the country's health minister last week issued a recommendation that the government stop using the chemical in its aerial spraying programme.
A huge aerial spraying programme against coca and poppies has not only proved ineffective without follow-up on the ground; it has also driven irate farmers to support the guerrillas.
Now an aerial reconnaissance programme in Jordan and high-resolution satellite imagery from Google Earth for large areas of Arabia is vastly expanding the database bringing transformation and opportunity.
Authorities in Colombia and the United States – which has funded the aerial eradication programme with as much as $2bn since 2000 – scoffed at those claims, and argued that aerial spraying was the most effective and safest method of destroying coca plants – the raw material for cocaine.
He noted that the spike in production last year occurred while the aerial eradication programme remained in place, and was due to low eradication efforts overall, in part because of a suspension of spraying for several months after three planes were shot down.
The EADS/Northrop Grumman KC-45 was a proposed version of the A330 MRTT for the United States Air Force (USAF)'s KC-X aerial refuelling programme.
At the UN it has argued loudly for an aerial-spraying programme, similar to those used in the Andes.China also wants to tighten drug controls globally.
Forced crop eradication programmes by aerial or manual spraying with chemicals kill both the drug crops that families and communities rely on, plus any food crops growing alongside, while polluting land and water.
