High Frontier is a quarterly military service journal (published in association with the U.S. Air Force Space Command) that seeks to “provide a scholarly forum for professionals to exchange knowledge and ideas on space-related issues throughout the space community.” I’ve been hooked ever since the Winter 2005 issue which had a dozen excellent articles from leading strategists on the space weapons debate.

However, sometime over the last few months, there was a redesign of the AFSPC website and most of my links to these articles started breaking. I discovered that not only had the ‘homepage’ for the journal changed, but the initial volume (including my fan-favorite Winter 2005, Vol. 1, No.3) was no longer listed. I doubt there was any intent to conceal the information because its a futile exercise with resources like archive.org around. This massive database functions like Google’s cached pages, capturing and storing pages even when no one is paying attention to them.

After some searching in the archive, I found the missing issues from Volume 1. The dates and naming conventions are inconsistent and it took some work to reconstruct the correct order. For example, there are two issues labeled “Volume 2, No. 2″ on the cover and title page but no issue “Volume 1, No. 2″. I’m assuming that the issue from Fall 2004 is the missing issue in this local archive:

Updated: June 10, 2008, with new issue, Volume 4, No. 3.

Vol 1, No. 1 - Summer 2004	Vol 1, No. 2 - Fall 2004	Vol 1, No. 3 - Winter 2005
Vol 1, No. 4	Vol 2, No. 1	Vol 2. No. 2
Vol 2. No. 3	Vol 2. No. 4	Vol 3. No. 1
Vol 3. No. 2	Vol 3. No. 3	Vol 3. No. 4
Vol 4. No. 1	Vol 4. No. 2	Vol 4. No. 3

I’ve also recently added ‘Sort by Source‘ functionality into the citation system to allow users to view all citations, collected by source. There are several excellent journals where the bulk of this debate is occurring (ex. High Frontier Journal, Astropolitics) and this tool can help identify these sources.