Without the 5th Gen fighters, U.S. ground and naval forces are doomed and vulnerable to enemy air attack. Air superiority is one crucial element the United States has retained since the Korean War and maintained it in the face of the Vietnam War. The heyday came in the PGW, but a political football would compel U.S. air power to face the acid test in the next war.
The USA elected a muslim who is a puppet to the Saudis.
People voted for this. The masses are too stupid. All they care about is inane TV shows and ball games.
The military doesn’t stand a chance against the Democrat-Media complex.
Some people see him as a dreamer and/or naive, but I see him for what he really is: A Clear & Present Danger to all Americans!!
Article makes some valid points, but here is one point it did not mention: We won’t have to worry about air superiority or maintaining it when the US goes bankrupt.....
National security isn’t chat. What’s PGW, Persian Gulf War in 1991?
Anyone else see a problem with this assertion?
In the Battle of Britain, the Germans fielded at least three major fighter types (Me-109, Me-110, He-113) and lost. The British fielded two in any numbers (Spitfire, Hurricane) and won.
In the Falklands War, the Argentines fielded Dassault Mirage 50's (or F-1's, I forget which) supported by A-4's and Super Etendards and some Pucara's, versus the single British fixed-wing type, the BAE Harrier. (There was one raid using V-bombers, Avro Vulcans refueled by converted Victors.) The British won again with fewer types to choose among.
Bwaaahahahahaaaaa...!
MacNamara .... what a maroon .... serial Edsel-perpetrator.
"Commonality" </cant warning> was the idea behind the F-111. He'd noticed at Ford you could use common parts among car designs. He thought that would be a "raht smort thang" to do w/r/t combat aircraft.
He also pioneered the use of computers to make U.S. war managers, er, conflict modulators smarter, and the enemy dead, deader.
Total liberal, total maroon.
Author Dunn gives Obama and his left-wing Alinskyite termite buddies too much benefit of the doubt. His harmful and noxious foreign policy and defense-deprecatory posture are premeditated, and Obama needs to be held accountable in every way for the postures and actions he's taken.
At least he didn't bug out of Iraq and Afghanistan. However slow-footed, at least his policies seem to comport with some version of reality, thanks to the indefatigable, standup service and counsel of Generals Petraeus and McChrystal.
Restart the F-22 production lines the best fighter aircraft ever built. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444670/posts
The debate over the F-22 Raptor has been carried out at the customary level of simplemindedness we've become used to with Congress handling military questions. Since the early 60s, the favored method of killing a military program has been to come up with an argument easily expressed in a sound bite and stick with it. This time, the sound bite was, "Why do we need two fighter planes, anyway?" The answer is even simpler: we need two fighters because need two fighters. The historical record clearly reveals this: every air campaign carried out with two distinct and particularly formulated fighter designs has been a success, and every attempt to do otherwise has resulted in disaster.
Good post! Just finished reading this @ AT...also revisited Colonel Boyd’s OODA Loop which applies to business and politics where the OODA Loop could be viewed as the Alinsky strategy seemingly used by many today.
BO is guilty of TREEASON!!! He is a suicidal Marxist who hates America and is a complete disaster.