If you're looking for good, clear
military cases for and against building more F - 22s, you can't do better than checking out Mark Bowden's Atlantic Monthly article arguing for more and Fred Kaplan's very effective Slate.com response (Kaplan in a nutshell — it's
hard to imagine too many geopolitical scenarios in which our having an extra 20 % of this one particular
type of aircraft is going to make enough of a difference to justify the cost of building them).