Epox

Hello and welcome back to Epox.

After the long series about Henry V, I thought it would be time for something completely different.

I'll just do a one-off bit of a pallet cleanser this time. So I thought I wanted to talk a little bit about something I'd meant to talk about for a while,

but hadn't really found the exact opportunity during the train of Epox episodes, talk about a bit of modern war,

talk about air power specifically.

And with what's gone on recently, you may be watching this months or years from now, but in recent

times in the summer of 2025, there was a big amount of bombings on Iran or Iran and Israel

bombing each other and the Americans getting involved.

And it's just something I've wanted to talk about for a while, the history of air power.

I've sort of touched on it once or twice here or there.

I did an interview with Tim Davis, the ex-R-A-F fast jet pilot, but that was talking more about

the aeroplaneers.

I want to talk a bit about the politics, even the morality of air power.

And I think one of the first things to say is how relatively new the whole thing is,

right? Men have been fighting wars on the ground, land armies,

for thousands of years, and even naval warfare for thousands of years. But we've only been

taken to the skies in powered flights since 1903, right? And it's only really since World War I

that any large amount of air combat has ever taken place.

So it's a 20th century thing.

So it was all quite new.

And I want to talk about really how we got to where we are today.

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