Listen to a short interview with Jeffrey A. Engel Host: Chris
Gondek ] Producer: Heron & Crane
In a gripping story of international power and deception,
Jeffrey Engel reveals the "special relationship" between the United
States and Great Britain in a new and far more competitive light.
As allies, they fought communism. As rivals, they locked horns over
which would lead the Cold War fight. In the quest for sovereignty
and hegemony, one important key was airpower, which created jobs,
forged ties with the developing world, and, perhaps most
importantly in a nuclear world, ensured military superiority.
Only the United States and Britain were capable of supplying the
post-war world's ravenous appetite for aircraft. The Americans
hoped to use this dominance as a bludgeon not only against the
Soviets and Chinese, but also against any ally that deviated from
Washington's rigid brand of anticommunism. Eager to repair an
economy shattered by war and never as committed to unflinching
anticommunism as their American allies, the British hoped to sell
planes even beyond the Iron Curtain, reaping profits, improving
East-West relations, and garnering the strength to withstand
American hegemony.
Engel traces the bitter fights between these intimate allies
from Europe to Latin America to Asia as each sought control over
the sale of aircraft and technology throughout the world. The
Anglo-American competition for aviation supremacy affected the
global balance of power and the fates of developing nations such as
India, Pakistan, and China. But without aviation, Engel argues,
Britain would never have had the strength to function as a brake
upon American power, the way trusted allies should.
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