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30th December 2022

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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

  1. steampunkforever reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  2. talkinggorillabutler said: Does the Philly MOVE bombing fit in here? Or the post Vietnam use of helicopters generally by urban police departments? And what about airwolf, blur thunder, etc. Media glamorizing super science helicopters
  3. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Then of course there was the Russian Afghanistan occupation where the ability to take down Hinds and neutralize the...