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Human beings being what we are, as soon as we first took to the skies in flight, we started

thinking about how to use that new skill to kill someone.

I'm sure it's the case that when we managed to float for the first time, to take to a boat,

when we managed to dig underground for the first time.

I'm pretty confident that before long we were raiding a store of grain across a river

or burrowing under a defensive wall.

We first entered space to strike at our enemies.

The cyber dimension, that was pretty much created by military money and technology.

And thus it was that just eight years after Wilbur Wright flew the world's first heavy-than-air machine

on its epic 100-feet flight in 1903, an Italian.

Giulio Gavotti was dropping hand grenades out of the cockpit of his plane flying over Libya.

When we humans enter a new dimension, we fight in it.

It's almost admirable how quickly some people came to regard the aerial dimension, flight,

as potentially decisive. By the First World War, Stratius were arguing that planes weren't just

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