The most maligned military project in living memory, the F35 is the most misunderstood fighter in history. Called a turkey, boondoggle and trillion dollar fighter, to say the Joint Strike Fighter is a controversial project would be an understatement. But, to understand the F35 and what makes it so lethal; you have to look beyond its basic statistics. Information dominance is what this machine does, and it's these, hard to quantify, capabilities, that will dominate the battlespace over the coming decades.