A-10 vs. F-35: Case Studies in Bad Defense Policy

Washington loves the F-35 and hates the A-10. Why? Join us as we dig up a struggle that has roots in the earliest days of air power and turns on fundamental questions: what is an air force for? How should we purchase, assess, and retire aircraft? What are the politics behind these decisions?  Join us as we hear from Dan Grazier, Senior Defense Policy Fellow at the Project on Government Oversight and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, on these two jets.    You can read more of Dan's work here: https://www.pogo.org/about/people/dan-grazier  FM 100-20 (July 1943) is here: https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/FM/FM100-20/index.html   The Key West Agreement (1948) is here: https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll11/id/729/  The F-35 economic impact page is here. https://www.f35.com/f35/about/economic-impact.html

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U.S. foreign policy for the future. Security Dilemma brings you conversations with the experts, policymakers, and thinkers charting new paths forward from the wreckage of recent decades and toward a national security and defense policy guided by prudence and restraint. Cohosts John Allen Gay and AJ Manuzzi bring you the information you need to shape a wiser approach. Security Dilemma is a podcast of the John Quincy Adams Society, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing a new generation of foreign policy leaders.