OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #150, NOVEMBER
1, 2023
Dick Bennett. AIR WAR
As most of you know, I am clearing my
home preparing to move to a smaller, more convenient residence, at a slow pace
because I can’t resist rereading books and articles (of course eventually I
must start dumping boxes without looking inside!). Like the following:
Anthony Sampson. Empires
of the Sky: The Politics, Contests, and Cartels of World Airlines (Random
House, 1984).
“How far has air travel changed the
political map of the world? Certainly,
there is not much left of the rhetoric of unification—about abolishing
frontiers or creating one world—which prevailed after Blėriots first
cross-Channel flight, or in America during the Second World War. The opening up of the air gave as many opportunities
for destruction as for peaceful communication, and frontiers and sovereignty
were soon extended upwards” (p. 229).
Sampson’s statement led me to this
question: Air Travel Leads to Peace or War?
and back to some earlier research (seeking peace v. war often involves
knowledge, including often especially antecedents of events).
Here are a few writings about the atrocious
history of war from the air. (These
writings lead also to present US wars—Ukraine, Gaza, just about everywhere
given our $1.5 trillion spent for war in 2022 for some 800 military bases
around the world and our 8 mobile, nuclear armed, extremely dangerous carrier
battle groups, one of which was sent to the eastern Mediterranean by Biden, for
starters) (See Gisela Cernadas and John
Bellamy Foster, “Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached $1.53 Trillion in 2022.
. . . “ Monthly Review, Nov. 2023).
#1. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2008/05/newsletter-1-on-air-war.html
#2. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2011/08/omni-air-war-newsletter-2.html
#3. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2012/05/omni-air-war-newsletter-2-compiled-by.html
Alas, a similar history has expanded upwards into outer space
(star wars in preparation v. keeping space for peace), and is occurring as I
write this.
US STAR WARS MILITARIZATION OF SPACE FOR US DOMINANCE
#6
(October 2012) http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2012/10/keep-space-for-peace-week-newsletter-6.html
#7
(March 2020) https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/05/omni-star-wars-newsletter-7-march-28.html
#8 (September 2021) http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/star-wars-protest-to-stop-us.html
My recommendation for resistance to
the worst: join the most effective
organizations against air war. I was a child
during WWII and still hold hope for the UN, and I belong to several of its
agencies struggling to prevent and to stop wars and to protect the
refugees. For starters.
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