Global Grunt Work: How the Air Force Fitness Test Became the World’s Most Revealing Geopolitical Ritual
If you want to understand the geopolitical temperature of any given decade, forget the think-tank white papers; simply watch what a fighter pilot must do before being allowed near a $100-million jet. The Air Force Physical Fitness Test—three events, sixty total points, and more angst per capita than a Milan runway—has quietly become the planet’s…