{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thinking about how all the classic '80s decolonial conflicts saw the ruling power leveraging an altitude advantage: the South...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/705053178399522816/", "html": "<p>Thinking about how all the classic &lsquo;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 &ldquo;bandit country&rdquo; along the Northern Irish frontier to physically look down and see what the IRA was doing</p>"}