COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The war in Iraq is showing "new and creative ways" of achieving U.S. operational objectives, Gen. Lance Lord, commander of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), said April 8.

In a keynote address to the National Space Symposium here, Lord said a prime example is the merger of Global Positioning System satellite guidance for munitions and stealthy platforms like the F-117.

Both were used in the first Gulf war, but now they are being used together. "That, to me, is a wonderful example of the asymmetric advantage that we've got" in space, he said. "GPS puts the 'dam' in JDAM," Lord said.

On March 21, he said, five strategic targets in Baghdad were struck by F-117s using 2,000-pound bombs that featured not only GPS guidance but laser guidance as well.