Ep 011 “Fixing Fight Club: The Death of Manned Air Power”
*** Apologies for delay in linking podcast, was on travel.***
The US Air Force is at a turning point in 21st century warfare and in danger of whistling past the graveyard if they fail to take notice and action on the emerging Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA).
The era of manned combat aircraft is coming to a close.
The era of manned bombers with gravity bombs is over.
The era of fixed site nuclear missiles is in great peril.
The era of hyper-velocity missiles whether high parabola of IRBM/ICBM or Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) glide vehicles.
If the pilot mafia doesn’t do something about what is coming, the result will be cataclysmic.
The Pentagon will not to the right thing, regretfully.
References:
A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force
Jeffrey J. Smith Tomorrow’s Air Force: Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future
David Hambling Swarm Troopers: How Small Drones Will Conquer the World
Garrett Graff Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die
Paul Ozorak Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below
Daniel Ellsberg The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Nassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game
Mark Gunzinger & Bryan Clark Winning the Salvo Competition: Rebalancing America’s Air and Missile Defense
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
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