GEOPOLITICAL MEMOIR

Myopic Vision: Fly, Fight, Win a War With China!

Part Eight: Slipping the surly bonds of earth (briefly)

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, RAF Lakenheath, 48th Fighter Wing (Public Domain, U.S. Air Force photo) The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.

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World War II: The European Theatre

“Strange things happened to the human body when it entered the earth’s upper air. Men’s ears clogged up painfully, their minds and movements slowed down, and their stomachs and intestines expanded inordinately, a condition exacerbated by the gaseous food they had been fed at breakfast.

Great numbers of fliers began to experience one or more of the symptoms of emotional disintegration: insomnia, irritability, sudden temper flashes, inability to concentrate, withdrawal from friends, nausea, weight loss, dizziness, blurring of vision, heart palpitations, Parkinson-like tremors, sexual impotence and aggressiveness, binge drinking, and terrifying battle dreams, nightmares so alarmingly vivid that men screamed and shook…”
― Masters of the Air, Donald L. Miller

Flashback: F-111 Aardvark cockpit…