Excellent and thought-provoking article. Nicely ties recent cyberattacks (probably Chinese) to the F-35 and Situational Awareness. I hadn’t connected those two seemingly-independent things before. Considering the HUGE numbers of Chinese engineers graduating and their excellent math and science skills, our superiority is going to be seriously endangered in the coming years and decades. When you factor in our lack of political will and recent propensity to surrender before the first shot is fired, we are in big trouble.
The whole article is about the nimbleness of our military and intelligence planners’ minds, with the normal politics aside.
Using the F-35 airframe as starting point of some obsolete thinking (both sides have good merits), and how much the American public is to be shielded from knowledge.
The whole picture is not good.
But of course, we don’t hear from ‘our side’, and I doubt ChiComm (and others) will advertise how successful our cyber warfare for them.
I think a lot of people are missing the point of the article. It’s not about dogfighting. It’s not even about air superiority. It’s about cyber warfare and how a war can be lost without anyone dying in combat. It’s an new era of technological struggle and no one really understands what that means. The plane is a small part of the issue.