'Spreading forces thin, the US undermines an already weakened means of defending Taiwan. The US cannot do everything everywhere. Pretending otherwise is to embrace arrogant strategic idiocy.' -TomRtweets
While the United States faces many national security challenges, it has limited military resources. It's disingenuous to claim that resolving this imbalance can be accomplished with defense budget boosts that have no chance of becoming law. At the pinnacle of security statecraft, the maximal countering of China's threats to Taiwan cannot coexist with a maximal countering of Russian threats to Eastern Europe.
Still, this F-22 deployment is only one side of the rotation of forces coin. Also last week, F-22s from the Alaska-based 525th fighter squadron returned home after a deployment to Okinawa. Those F-22s have now been replaced in Okinawa by an F-15E fighter jet squadron based out of North Carolina.Because the Air Force only has about 110-140 F-22s operationally ready at any one time. It can't keep F-22s forward deployed everywhere, all the time.
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