This is some old fashioned Cold War military spending arguments. We can not have a fighter plane gap! The assumption that an air war with China will result in

This is some old fashioned Cold War military spending arguments. We can not have a fighter plane gap! The assumption that an air war with China will result in a 1:1 trade of aircraft needs more citations. I’m also not sure they were counting the Navy and Marines airframes in the estimate. I am not sold on the need to buy more military aircraft at the time.