Air Force 
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/20/2023
Strangelove on the Square: Secret USAF Films Showed Airmen What to Expect if Nuclear War Broke Out
Air Force training films, with their bloodless procedural guidance for launching armageddon, provide a surreal insight into the Cold War that put Kubrick's absurdism to shame (yes, HNN will feature Dr. Strangelove-related content at any opportunity).
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/25/2021
Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War
by Thomas E. Ricks
Malcolm Gladwell's new study of the US Air Force unexpectedly rehabilitates the image of General Curtis LeMay.
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3/21/2021
Power to Rule the Skies: A Forgotten Innovator of the Strategic Air Command
by Brent D. Ziarnick
General Thomas S. Power should emerge from the shadow of his mentor Curtis LeMay as a leader of the United States Strategic Air Command at the critical moment in the dawn of the Cold War.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
7/15/2020
Lieutenant Lowderback’s Short Snorter: A Flight Nurse’s Service and Souvenir in WWII
by Elizabeth DeWolfe
This World War II souvenir captures frivolity in the midst of the seriousness of war; life in the moment in a time of great uncertainty; and the freedom young women found in serving in the Army’s medical air evacuation squadrons.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
6-3-18
The Air Force’s Strange Love for the New B-21 Bomber
by William J. Astore
The Pentagon wants 200 of the bombers at more than half a billion dollars each (not counting cost overruns).
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
6-21-16
Dominating the Skies -- and Losing the Wars
by William J. Astore
Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be
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