Mike Fredenburg in National Review: Mr. President, Cancel the F-35

Many area conservatives remember Mike Fredenburg as the founder of the Adam Smith Institute several years ago. The local author has made quite a name for himself the last couple of years writing about military affairs for National Review.

In Fredenburg’s latest, he urges Donald Trump to continue boldly challenging the status quo and a crony-capitalist procurement system by cancelling the F-35 joint strike fighter program, saying its “massive cost and lack of capability will have a dramatically negative impact on our military’s effectiveness for decades to come.”

The real goal of the program, Fredenburg writes “is to obscure the true cost of the program for as long as possible from taxpayers while pumping out as many revenue-producing airframes as fast as possible — knowing that even Congress may at some point become too embarrassed to continue to support the program.”

Read the article at National Review:

The failed F-35 fighter-jet program can’t be fixed — it’s time to turn the page.