In this paper, Lt. Col. Devin L. Cate tackles the question of whether an air superiority fighter is relevant to warfare in the twenty-first century. Critics of the F/A-22, the US Air Force's next generation air superiority fighter, have identified it as a cold war relic - unjustifiably expensive and out of step with the Department of Defense (DoD) transformation. Colonel ate argues that the six operational goals of the DoD transformation, as defined in the Quadrennial Defense Review Report (QDR) of 2001, actually demand a highly capable air superiority fighter. He shows how achieving these...
In this paper, Lt. Col. Devin L. Cate tackles the question of whether an air superiority fighter is relevant to warfare in the twenty-first century. C...
