Thanks for your links, Norm. I just can’t buy Gates’ reasoning on this and wonder if he really believes it.
I hear ya .. He knows there will be blowback, he’s probably ready to leave anyway.. who next as Secy Of D?
Ben Nelson?
Gen. Petraeus?
Bawney Fwank?
I don't know for sure, but I suspect from reading what Gates wrote that he is probably thinking that with the existing F-22s and what we'll have with the F-35s, we would already be able to decimate the combined air forces of the rest of the planet so why buy more?
I suspect that the F-22 being as good as it is might be working against it.