Kissinger, the Bombardier How Diplomacy by Air Power Became an All-American Tradition

Kissinger, the Bombardier
How Diplomacy by Air Power Became an All-American Tradition
By Greg Grandin
In April 2014, ESPN published a photograph of an unlikely duo: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and former national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Yankees-Red Sox season opener. In fleece jackets on a crisp spring day, they were visibly enjoying each other’s company, looking for all the world like a twenty-first-century geopolitical version of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The subtext of their banter, however, wasn’t about sex, but death.
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