America's Self-Destroying Air Power

Becoming Your Own Peer Threat

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Hans Ulrich Kaeser

Published February 23, 2009

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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.


 

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Defense and Security, Defense Strategy and Capabilities, and Technology
Anthony H. Cordesman

Anthony H. Cordesman

Former Emeritus Chair in Strategy

Hans Ulrich Kaeser

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