NATO Deputy SecGen: Russia's Anti-Access/Area-Denial Build-Up Is Biggest Worry

The linked PDF makes a good companion piece to the article.

Considering that "defense" generally costs less than "offense" is it going to be possible to "keep ahead of the curve" so that America's "first (in the non-nuclear sense) strike capacity is sufficient to give control of the airspace almost immediately?

Is the analogy going to be like the situation between the P-51 and the Me 262 where the Me 262 could out perform any single P-51 but ran into a whole lot of grief if there were too many (lower tech) P-51s for it to shoot down all at once?

What do you think the survival rate for an aircraft equipped with 10 air-to-air missiles that were 100% effective would be against 12 aircraft that were each equipped with 10 air-to-air missiles that were 50% effective?

The US Naval War College paper on Chinese A2/AD to complement the above article [ https://www.usnwc.edu/Lucent/OpenPdf.aspx?id=95&Title=The%20Global%20System%20in%20Transition ]

The Rand Corporation paper on "swarming" makes interesting reading [ http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf ]