Proliferation of Russian Military Equipment: Implications for United States Air and Space Power

摘要

Russia is flooding world markets with military equipment. This flood of equipment is acting like a fuel source for terrorist organizations and countries around the world to use force against their enemies. This paper analyses the effects of this flood of equipment in four regions of the world. Russian proliferation is marginalizing the effectiveness of US airpower because the US doesn't have quick and regular access to the thousands of hot spots military proliferation creates. Our current model for airpower application is old and inflexible. It suffers from a need for access and logistic lines of supply. These are shackles that we mist shed. American airpower advocates must re-shape the military-industrial complex to produce airpower capability that America 'on call' firepower anywhere in the world within minutes. America must make gives this technological and philosophical leap now, while we have an advantage over our adversaries, or we will find ourselves irrelevant and incapable of responding to the next unexpected world event that threatens our national security.