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		Animats 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets The USAF argues over this internally. See [1], and a reply, [2]. Some USAF officers have been making noise about the need for more dispersal for years.[3] There's a "build tougher bases" faction in the military. Read "Concrete Sky"[4] If you want to read up on this, those are some good starting points. [1] https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AEtherJournal/Jo... [2] https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/drone-hype-and-air... [3] https://www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/documents/AFDN_1-21/A... [4] https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/media.hudson.org/Concrete...

echelon 5 months ago [–]

This is so much better than I even asked for! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing.

Any opinion as to which faction(s) will win these arguments?

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