Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Goldfein Pisses Off The Rooskies He used the F-35 as an example to illustrate a point about making investments across the portfolio of penetrating capabilities:   If [China or Russia] ever do see an F-35…it will never be alone. It will be part of a penetrating joint team.  And in the “we’re here” message, the message is we’re here in space, we’ve been here for a while, we’ve been watching you, we know what’s going on, and we have already penetrated whatever defenses you think you have. You cannot put a block of wood over your country, you can put a block of Swiss cheese over your country, but like Swiss cheese there are holes there and we know where they are and we can exploit them and we can get in, we can hold targets at risk. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/02/22/general-david-goldfein-on-building-the-air-force-of-the-future/  The Rooskies responded: ‘remember Vietnam’ https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/02/25/russia-warns-us-air-force-chief-to-remember-vietnam-after-he-touts-f-35/ I remember when Nixon finally unleashed the USAF on Hanoi in 1972 and brought them screaming to the negotiation table.