No, F-22s Can’t Save Ukraine -- Robert Farley, War is Boring
Colonel’s mad proposal perpetuates air power folly
On March 31, U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Spalding III argued in The National Interest that a “purely defensive deployment” of Air Force F-22 stealth fighters “is just one possible solution” to the Ukraine crisis, which has seen Vladimir Putin’s Russia annex the strategic Crimean peninsula and threaten the rest of Ukraine.
Spalding is wrong—F-22s are not the answer. The colonel’s assertion is yet another example of air power hubris, which has come to define the Air Force. “Without firing a shot, such a deployment [of F-22s] would immediately change Putin’s invasion calculus,” Spalding insists.
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My Comment: If an F-22 deployment will be ineffective in Ukraine .... it is then all but a guarantee that a deployment of F-35s will also be a waste of time.
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