China's Strategic Ambitions and U.S. Strategy

The F/A-22 plods along with its proponents espousing its capabilities and necessity for national defense. Yet, few military systems have been so overtaken by events as has the F/A-22, that is to say the F-22, which actually started out as the F-22 before turning into the F/A-22. The direction of America's military mirrors this confusion. Since the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon and defense contractors have patiently waited for China to build a sufficient military so they could engage in a good old fashioned arms race just like the good old days of the Soviet threat. Back then, the Pentagon enjoyed the limelight and considered itself the keeper of peace for the free world.