Trump's Art of the Deal does the same for the U.S., perhaps winning by not having to go to war in the first place. Trump is right that China needs us a lot more than we need them.
But I agree with the premise of the article. We should keep up militarily to be able to win future wars, not just past wars.
We need to be suspicious when articles like this come out. Plane manufacturers have skin in the game and clearly would like to build a new manned jet. But at some point fighter assets will likely be unmanned, flown by people on the ground. The advent of hypersonic missiles could make manned fighter jets obsolete.
Carriers will be in the deep blue water, not in striking distance of Chinese land targets.
That job is for F-35A and heavy bombers with advanced weapons.
The carriers will keep the lanes open/controlled from the west coast to at least Japan and the PI.
The next generation fighter should not have a pilot.
This is more deep state/industrial military complex bs. Like the told us about Russia being a real threat. They can’t even overrun Ukraine.
The Russians and Chinese have used the methods of using tried and true airframes and evolving them into their next generations of fighters. The US on the other hand, tries a "clean slate" with a lot of bells, horns and whistles that drive up cost and inevitably reduce procurement numbers. That cost us dearly with the F-22 where we have a Cadillac in pitiful numbers to fight the flying Toyota hoards the Chinese put up.
We would do well to evolve existing platforms and keep their mission basic to the design i.e. fighters fight, bombers bomb. That keeps us out of the "flying jackknife" F/A mode of operation.
Uh, China don’t win nuthin’ if they ain’t got no cash.
GroovyJets ain’t what’s needed for us to win.
We win when we stop buying crap from them. Period.
After that they can try to sell their junk to the Africans.
How about we just make better and longer range missiles? It is always the last mile in engineering that is the hardest to solve.
Chinas got internal issues..huge internal issues. They won’t be fighting any wars soon.
The free traitors already did that.