The world is a bad place right now, and a lot of that has to do with bombing civilians. And it's impossible for me to look at the news from Gaza, or from Ukraine, and not think of my own current book project on the bombing of British civilians in the First World War. But I don't know whether what's happening now makes my history more necessary, or more inadequate. It hardly seems comparable. I just don't know how to think about it.
So instead, I made some AI art.
It's a long way from 2009/1937, let alone 1915.
Image source: Midjourney.
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Shrike58
I had a cognitive moment like that earlier in the week. I'm currently reading Yefim Gordon's book on the Tu-22M and, while contemplating the cover (an aerial glamor shot of an example of the machine hauling cruise missiles), it took on the aura of dread those early WWII-pictures of Ju-87 Stukas have.
Brett Holman
Post authorThe glamour can make it easy to forget the ultimate purpose of so many of these machines, but remembering can happen very quickly, too.