“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.” WorldWellsSaidWarEndsStatesMightForceUnitedCitiesLeaderEnemyUnited StatesAirColdMoralityDestructionThreatPopulationIsraelNuclearWar Of The WorldsBombsWillingnessPermitWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarAssuredCiviliansIsraeliAir ForceNuclear BombMutually Assured Destruction Author:Alan Dershowitz
“The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.” WorldWarLostUnitedCitiesAirBritishSurrenderKingdomsWar Of The WorldsGermanyWorld War IOffensiveUnited KingdomCoerce Author:John Mearsheimer
“My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.” WorldWarStoriesForceSeeingAirGrewGrew UpHearingChineseWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiPilotsWorld War IGrandfatherUniformsMy GrandfatherAir Force Author:Eric Liu
“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.” KnowsWorldWarReadingForceMy OwnClassAirUniversityCommittedMissionsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IExpansionNaziImperialismBombingAtrocitiesAir ForceHiroshimaDresden Author:Howard Zinn
“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.” WorldFirstsWellsWarMillionsGoneForeverAirSeaLessonsEuropeDefenseWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IWarfareVeteranPacificAmerican Veterans Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.” PeopleIfsWorldWayYearsWarHouseGrowsBornCommunitySawsAirStonesDown AndMovedSouthWar Of The WorldsAbandonedWorld War IiWorld War IAgricultureUrbanDetroitVacantUp In The AirBlight Author:Grace Lee Boggs