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Aerial operations

Mobbed Up

by Andrew Cockburn,

How America boosts the Afghan opium trade

Baby Boomers

From a transcript of radio transmissions and cockpit conversations that took place during a drone strike in Afghanistan in 2010. The strike killed twenty-three civilians. At Nevada headquarters, Pilot is…

Body Count

by Alexander Kluge, Translated by Martin Chalmers,

By Alexander Kluge, from Air Raid, an account of the destruction of Halberstadt, Germany, by American bomber squadrons on April 8, 1945, out this month from Seagull Books. Kluge is…

Tunnel Vision

by Andrew Cockburn,

Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?

Conjectural damage

by Daniel Swift,

A history of bombing

It’s always lethal

by Harper’s Staff,

The Question Bush Never Got Asked

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Did he, as a Navy pilot, strafe a lifeboat?

The age of flight arrives

by Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edited by John Atlee Kouwenhoven,

The fire front

by Charles Lester Walker,

Our defense against incendiary bombs

The Truth About Air Power

by Keith Ayling,

Our need for a five-continent air force

The Bomb Hit the Cruiser

by Richard Gibson Hubler,

By a British seaman