The answer, he suggested, is one of perspective. The panel agreed that sweeping changes lie ahead in the nature of warfare itself. It doesn't mean I would give up my objectives. But I would not do it in a straightforward manner. I would pursue an indirect strategy.
Technology tends to become commercially available, and all comers can acquire it.
It costs a whole lot less to buy it or steal it than it does to develop it. Meanwhile, not every theater commander and joint service official is as open to the relative value of airpower as Norman Schwarzkopf was in 1990. Subsequent to the Persian Gulf War, Dugan told the Eaker Institute panel, a display was set up in the Pentagon, between the Joint Staff area and the office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to commemorate the nation's victory in Desert Storm.