Airpower as a Lynchpin for a 21st Century Pacific Strategy

09/23/2012
We need to realize and exploit the advantages of modern aerospace and information age technology to build new concepts of operation. We need an agile operational framework for the integrated employment of U.S. and allied military power. A tremendous strategic advantage will accrue to the US and our allies if…

Russia’s New Fifth Generation Fighter

08/17/2010
By Dr. Richard Weitz The United States possess the only fifth-generation fighter currently in service, the F-22A Raptor stealth fighter, which entered the U.S. Air Force in 1997. The Russian Federation is hoping to join this exalted category in the next few years, with its new fighter plane, which began…

The PRC Claim to Super-Power Status and the F-22: Not so fast!

08/17/2010
By Hon. Ed Timperlake A very bold headline on July 30, 2010 in Peoples Daily asks a rhetorical question—“Is US ready to recognize China as world power?” Of course the article has a delicious sentence written with a sense of ironic whimsy that was apparently missed by the author-- “It…