The Imperative to Recapitalise and Modernise
3 Mar 2008
Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan and outside the Middle East there are states taking tangible steps toward becoming peer competitors; states exerting destabilising regional influences; and non-state actors with increasingly lethal capabilities. These threats will not allow us the luxury of time to field new capabilities or reconstitute forces in future wars.
We are therefore accelerating our efforts to ensure we can dominate the battlespace against a wide array of looming threats. America’s joint military team and its coalition partners rely on airpower to dissuade, deter and, if necessary, defeat enemies. But for airpower to continue to claim such dominance, it must stay a step ahead of those enemies. Doing that requires recapitalisation and modernisation.
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