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The Looming Air Superiority Train Wreck

Posted August 31st, 2016 at 4:19 pm (UTC-5)
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America is on track to lose air supremacy in contingencies involving near-peer air combat….In a 2030 war, the U.S. Air Force, after assessing currently funded improvement programs, now expects to no longer be able to win the air superiority battle.

What America’s Big New Defense Plan Gets Wrong

Posted June 2nd, 2016 at 12:09 pm (UTC-5)
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DoD’s leaders recently identified autonomy and artificial intelligence technologies as the core elements of what they believe our new overmatch will be….But before the Third Offset flies too far, we need to ask the critical question: whether we are soaring in the right direction.

Republicans Won’t Stop Saying Our Military is Weak

Posted February 22nd, 2016 at 2:25 pm (UTC-5)
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Americans should not equate a commander-in-chief’s decision not to use the military with the military’s lack of readiness or its ineffectiveness. Rather, this is the intended outcome of the framework of the Constitution, whereby elected civilians, and those serving under them, exercise control over where the military will be used.