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John Geddes on Friday, October 29, 2010 11:40am - 0 Comments
Q. And what are those needs?      Q. Is the Afghanistan
experience one of the reasons we haven’t heard a lot about the
F-35′s capability to providing close air support for ground
troops engaged in counter-insurgency fighting? I’m thinking of
how using air strikes in Afghanistan has become very
controversial because of civilian casualties.
Bookmark and Share   • Stewart_Smith      I have an natural
inclination to go with expert opinion, but it sure came off
sounding like he really wanted a cool toy.      In particular,
the argument about spec. deflation was weakly presented. If the
original assessment of the military needs was really that
strong, one shouldn't have to worry about it standing up in a
rational debate. In my experience, when the h