Thinking about how all the classic ‘80s decolonial conflicts saw the ruling power leveraging an altitude advantage: the South Africans used paratrooper sticks and airmobile helicopter-delivered troops to interdict rebel movement, the Israelis used armed helicopters to observe and intervene in territory where they lacked on-the-ground hegemony, and the British built observation towers in “bandit country” along the Northern Irish frontier to physically look down and see what the IRA was doing