For anyone interested in learning more, the book 'Boyd' provides a lot of useful background information on
- why the F-35 is a total disaster - the Pentagon's intrinsic inability to make reasonable decisions
In a nutshell, this guy Boyd pioneered modern fighter jet design (and important general strategic theorems as well), but spent his career fighting crony-bureaucrats to get any of it adopted by the U.S. military
http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-The-Fighter-Pilot-Changed/dp/0316...