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![Navigating Next-Gen Air Power in the Indo-Pacific Navigating Next-Gen Air Power in the Indo-Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-15-134501.jpg)
Navigating Next-Gen Air Power in the Indo-Pacific
By Wilder Alejandro Sánchez
The United States’ Indo-Pacific adversaries are already working on their next-generation fighter jets. Washington can’t fall behind.
![Is This What the Pentagon's 'Third Offset' Has Been Missing All Along? Is This What the Pentagon's 'Third Offset' Has Been Missing All Along?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-12-01_16-56-38.jpg)
Is This What the Pentagon's 'Third Offset' Has Been Missing All Along?
By Robert Farley
Have changes to the U.S. industrial and technological sector posed new challenges for defense procurement?
![Why the F-35 Is Particularly Ill-Suited to Succeed in the Asia-Pacific Why the F-35 Is Particularly Ill-Suited to Succeed in the Asia-Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sizes/thumbnail/10549_524b615f89e2c.jpg)
Why the F-35 Is Particularly Ill-Suited to Succeed in the Asia-Pacific
By Ankit Panda
The Asia-Pacific's expansive geography leaves short-range tactical fighters ill-suited for success and versatility.
Can Fiction Predict the Future of Warfare?
By Franz-Stefan Gady
Perhaps, but more importantly it tells us about how we want the future of war to look like.
![Book Review: Ghost Fleet and the Future of Great Power War Book Review: Ghost Fleet and the Future of Great Power War](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-07-06_18-04-24.jpg)
Book Review: Ghost Fleet and the Future of Great Power War
By Gary Bearden
Peter W. Singer and August Cole shine in Ghost Fleet.
![China's Air Force Conducts Exercise Between Taiwan and the Philippines China's Air Force Conducts Exercise Between Taiwan and the Philippines](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-03-30_21-53-21.jpg)
China's Air Force Conducts Exercise Between Taiwan and the Philippines
By Ankit Panda
The People's Liberation Army Air Force carried out a one-day exercise over the Bashi Channel.
![Pakistan and China May Finally Have a JF-17 Buyer Pakistan and China May Finally Have a JF-17 Buyer](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-01-24_13-15-01.jpg)
Pakistan and China May Finally Have a JF-17 Buyer
By Ankit Panda
The Bulgarian Air Force may purchase 16 JF-17s from Pakistan.
![What Air Power Can and Cannot Accomplish What Air Power Can and Cannot Accomplish](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sizes/thumbnail/3604_52439234c319c.jpg)
What Air Power Can and Cannot Accomplish
By James R. Holmes
The war against ISIS can't be won from the air, but air forces can keep IS from winning.
![In Iraq, Beware of Destruction Without Control In Iraq, Beware of Destruction Without Control](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-09-11_20-44-05.jpg)
In Iraq, Beware of Destruction Without Control
By James R. Holmes
So long as man lives on land, there's only so much air power can accomplish.
![Does China Care About Air Power? Does China Care About Air Power?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-07-21_19-50-08.jpg)
Does China Care About Air Power?
By Ankit Panda
The PLA has always been a ground force-centric military. Is that changing?
![Time: Air Power’s Great Nemesis Time: Air Power’s Great Nemesis](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2013-12-20_23-14-51.jpg)
Time: Air Power’s Great Nemesis
By James R. Holmes
Cumulative strategic bombing campaigns are rarely strategically decisive in themselves.
![Why Do Fighter Aircraft Cost So Much? Why Do Fighter Aircraft Cost So Much?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-01-10_15-51-16.jpg)
Why Do Fighter Aircraft Cost So Much?
By Robert Farley
Are there good reasons for fighters being as pricey as they are?
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