The debate over who “owned” the RMA is one that you started by purporting to correct me with the claim that Sprey and Boyd invented the RMA.
This assertion has been shown to be incorrect, and so now the debate you started is a useless exercise.
Well, ok.
Except that if Sprey’s analysis of what constitutes optimal military systems in the 1970’s and 1980’s has been thoroughly repudiated by events, then that is relevant to determining the validity of his current arguments against the F-35. His current arguments proceed from the same premises as the previous arguments that were previously repudiated, and he does not account for the developments which refuted him.
Regards,
Instead of discussing the points pro and con, a number of folks tried to discredit the article because of where it was published on the claim that CDI is a "communist" publication especially because of its association with the the now long retired Gene La Rocque.
However, Sprey, and another author of numerous publications on this cite, Chuck Spinney, have rock solid credentials, and so that line of attack is not legitimate, if it ever were, both being very much advocates and developers of many of the systems, concepts and doctrines that underpin modern defense strategy, whether or not those who think they are guardians of the RMA flame would accept them as full fledge members of the RMA crowd.
Thus, my argument, instead of the ad hominems, ad communismums, ad intelligentium extremum, ad phonia and other kinds of ad hocos pocos is that the JSF should be debated on its merits, as it should in any case, and not by efforts to smear, as somehow dishonerable, the individuals who have taken a stand against it.