Book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. And dissertation of culture and technology in the u. S. Air force 1964 to 1991. Ladiies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hankins. All right. I will try to not keep you from the reception and ill be quick. I did want to start off by talking about something that happened about a year ago last june in 2017. There was an air force f15 flying over syria. This is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture, but stay with me. An f15 is flying over syria and shoots down an iranian drone, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or uav. About two weeks, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event happened, another f15 shot down another iranian drone, and i dont know about you, but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing. And what theyre arguing about is does shooting down th
The form of the bully mall just over 30 years ago came amid sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of corrupt authoritarian regimes across the city here its 3 decades on the prodemocracy optimism of those days has turned sour xenophobia and nationalism on the rise political corruption is not going away in the 2nd of 2 special reports weve been told kerry have remained yet and waspy. The lessons of history havent. Peace in europe 30 years after the end of the cold war. Best set with rising ultranationalist and and struggling to find answers to hatred and corruption. The euphoria that swept the continent 30 years ago in the wake of the fall of the bird in war seems like a distant dream. Within 2 months communist dictatorships from the baltic to the black sea where i stood there and curtain was gone europe appeared to be on the brink of a brighter future. But these hopes were dashed perhaps nowhere more so than bulgaria a country which despite the propaganda enj
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