| UKRAINE'S AIRPOWER GAP: There are reasonable arguments on both sides of the debate over the provision of modern fighter aircraft to Ukraine as it prepares for a late spring counteroffensive. The primary argument against runs something like this: the pilots can't be trained in time, the planes can't be sent in time, and the maintenance and spare parts that would be needed to keep the planes flying can't be put in place in time to make a difference in the coming months. "F-16s are a question for a later time," said national security adviser Jake Sullivan on CNN yesterday. "This phase of the war requires tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, artillery, tactical air defense systems, so that Ukrainian fighters can retake territory that Russia currently occupies, Sullivan said, noting that President Joe Biden has ruled out F-16s "for now." The president has also continued to rule out long-range ATACMS missiles that could target Russian positions deep into Crimea, including air bases which serve as launching points for Iranian-made drones that have rained destruction on Ukraine's energy grid and other civilian targets. McCAUL: 'I HOPE WE CAN CHANGE COURSE': One thing is clear. The United States military would not be launching a counteroffensive against entrenched Russian troops over a 600-mine front line without airpower. "I was at the Munich Security Conference, met with a lot of the high-ranking military officials, including our supreme allied commander. They're all in favor of us putting not only F-16s in but longer-range artillery to take out the Iranian drones in Crimea," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) on ABC. McCaul is among many lawmakers and current and former military commanders frustrated with Biden's reluctance to go all-in with fighter jets out of concern it risks escalating the conflict. "I talked to [Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark] Milley last night. I don't think it's off the table," McCaul said of F-16s. "I think, with enough pressure from Congress on both sides of the aisle, we can get into Ukraine what they really need to win this fight. Otherwise, what are we doing in Ukraine?" "Jake Sullivan's talking about, 'Well, we're not going to do F-16s today; that's for another time, not right now.' That has been a pattern with this administration from the beginning, where they have slow-rolled critical military weapon systems," said Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on NBC. "You know, it's a long list. It's Patriots; it's HIMARS; it's tanks; and now it's F-16s. And to me, that is a real blunder. We need to get them what they need now." IRAN'S SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN WAR EFFORTS 'EXPANDING,' BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS TRAIN NOW, DEBATE LATER: The Ukrainians have consistently outperformed expectations when it comes to adapting to advanced Western weaponry, and many are questioning why Ukrainian pilots are not being trained on F-16s now, in anticipation of getting the planes in the future. "For god's sakes," said McCaul. "I mean, it takes three to six months to train. We need to do this now." One of the strongest advocates for sending F-16s as soon as possible is retired Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and chief architect of the 1991 Desert Storm air campaign. "Tanks have limitations. The gun on a modern tank has a maximum reach of about 3 miles, and the vehicle's top speed is just above 40 miles an hour. Tanks can't operate long without tremendous logistical support, both in fuel and maintenance, and won't do much to change the picture on the ground as the war devolves into an ugly World War I-type stalemate," Deptula argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, co-written with Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute. "Air power is different. Fighter aircraft typically fly at around 600 miles an hour and can defend multiple parts of the country on a single mission. Manned and unmanned aircraft can carry thousands of pounds of ordnance and employ powerful sensors that report detailed battlefield information in real time," Deputa and Farkas wrote. "The Biden administration appears to be concerned about what will happen if the U.S. provides air power to Ukraine. The real worry ought to be what will happen if we don't." CALLS TO END US AID TO UKRAINE ARE 'DANGEROUS,' ZELENSKY SAYS Good Monday morning and welcome to Jamie McIntyre's Daily on Defense, written and compiled by Washington Examiner National Security Senior Writer Jamie McIntyre (@jamiejmcintyre) and edited by Conrad Hoyt. Email here with tips, suggestions, calendar items, and anything else. Sign up or read current and back issues at DailyonDefense.com. If signing up doesn't work, shoot us an email and we'll add you to our list. And be sure to follow us on Twitter: @dailyondefense. Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP OR READ BACK ISSUES OF DAILY ON DEFENSE CIA'S BURNS: CRITICAL TO PUNCTURE PUTIN'S 'HUBRIS': Russian President Vladimir Putin is convinced he can erode Western support and eventually prevail over Ukraine by simply sacrificing tens of thousands of troops and hanging in until the bitter end, according to CIA Director William Burns. "Putin's view of Americans, of us, has been that we have attention deficit disorder, and we'll move on to some other issue eventually," Burns said on CBS yesterday. "Putin, in many ways, I think, believes today that he cannot win for awhile, but he can't afford to lose." "He believes he can grind down the Ukrainians, that he can wear down our European allies, that political fatigue will eventually set in," Burns told CBS's Margaret Brennan, on Face the Nation. "Putin is certainly not a sentimentalist about the loss of Russian life or the huge losses that he's taken in terms of Russian armaments as well during the course of the war. But there's a lot of hubris that continues to be attached to Putin and his view of the war right now. And I think what's going to be critical is to puncture that hubris on Putin's part and regain momentum on the battlefield," he said. "At some point, he's going to have to face up to increasing costs, as well as coffins coming home to some of the poorest parts of Russia," he said. "I think Putin is right now entirely too confident of his ability to wear down Ukraine, to grind away." CIA DIRECTOR: US 'CONFIDENT' CHINA IS 'CONSIDERING' RUSSIA'S LETHAL AID REQUESTS BURNS ON TAIWAN: China has made no decision yet about whether to try to force the unification of Taiwan by military means, and some Chinese generals have doubts about the feasibility of an invasion of the island, Burns said in his appearance on CBS. "Our judgment, at least, is that President Xi and his military leadership have doubts today about whether they could accomplish that invasion. I think, as they've looked at Putin's experience in Ukraine, that's probably reinforced some of those doubts as well," Burns said. "We need to take very seriously Xi's ambitions with regard to ultimately controlling Taiwan. That doesn't, however, in our view, mean that a military conflict is inevitable," he said. "We do know, as has been made public, that President Xi has instructed the PLA, the Chinese military leadership, to be ready by 2027 to invade Taiwan. But that doesn't mean that he's decided to invade in 2027 or any other year as well." CIA DIRECTOR 'CAN'T SAY' IF CHINESE LEADERSHIP KNEW OF SPY BALLOON BEFORE IT ENTERED US BURNS ON IRAN: The military ties between Moscow and Tehran are "moving at a pretty fast clip in a very dangerous direction," Burns told CBS, noting that Iran provided hundreds of armed drones to the Russians, along with ammunition for artillery and tanks. "What we also see are signs that Russia is proposing to help the Iranians on their missile program and also at least considering the possibility of providing fighter aircraft to Iran as well," he said. "So it's a quite disturbing set of developments." Asked if Iran's leaders have made the decision to pursue a nuclear weapon, Burns said not yet. "To the best of our knowledge, we don't believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge that they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003. But the other two legs of the stool, meaning enrichment programs, they've obviously advanced very far, you know, over the course of the last couple years," he said. "They've advanced very far, to the point where it would only be a matter of weeks before they could enrich to 90 percent, if they chose to cross that line." IRAN'S SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN WAR EFFORTS 'EXPANDING,' BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS SABOTAGE IN MARIUPOL? The British Defense Ministry is reporting that in the past six days, at least 14 explosions have been reported around the southern, Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, according to pro-Russian officials. "Sites of the incidents have included an ammo cache at the airport, two fuel depots, and a steel works that Russia uses as a military base. Mariupol lies at least 80 km (50 miles) away from the front line," according to the U.K. MOD daily intelligence tweet. "Russia will likely be concerned that unexplained explosions are occurring in a zone it had probably previously assessed as beyond the range of routine Ukrainian strike capabilities." "Although widely devasted earlier in the war, Mariupol is important to Russia because it is the. largest city Russia captured in 2022 that it still controls, and sits on a key logistics route," the update said. 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Gen. 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James Rainey, commander of Army Futures Command; and Douglas Bush, assistant Army secretary for acquisition, logistics, and technology https://www.cnas.org/events/virtual-fireside-chat | | | "The Biden administration appears to be concerned about what will happen if the U.S. provides air power to Ukraine. The real worry ought to be what will happen if we don't."
| Retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, and Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute, writing in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
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