America's Self-Destroying Air Power
Becoming Your Own Peer Threat
February 23, 2009
An updated Burke Chair report entitled America’s Self-Destroying Air Power: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat examines the impact of a crisis in aircraft procurement on tactical, strategic, and enabling capabilities of U.S. air power. It draws on recent government and other reports to describe the problems in U.S. aircraft procurement and their impact on U.S. air power and the challenges the Obama administration will face in force planning and budgeting.
