While the F-35 is without a doubt a massive improvement and refinement of previous Soviet-era Russian and cold war British thrust vector based VTOL fighter aircraft developments, it's been put into service to fulfil the U.S. Air Force war doctrine of air supremacy. A war doctrine that has been in place since it was developed in the mid-1940's during WW2 by the organizational predecessor, the U.S. Army Air Corps. The problem is that much of the U.S. military establishment is engaged in a culture war, much like the American people themselves. Elements of U.S. military establishment have fought with insane determination to maintain adherence to obsolete war doctrines that can be used to justify massive taxpayer expenditures. The sad thing is, these archaic war doctrines have also been made obsolete due to advances in civilian technology, expanded knowledge of the culture, advancements in the strategic capabilities of assumed likely potential future adversaries, on top of the forced demographic transformation of America by foreign infiltrators granted citizenship privileges. The space force was needed twenty years ago, but its delayed formation will not prevent the next major war the U.S. finds itself involved in from being an spectacular demoralizing catastrophe for those who find themselves tasked with fighting it in the next decade.