Jet Fuel & Geopolitics: Inside the Miramar Air Show’s Global Arms Circus
From thirty-thousand feet, the Miramar Air Show looks like the world’s most expensive light-switch rave. F/A-18 Super Hornets pirouette above San Diego’s sun-bleached suburbs, leaving contrails the color of bruised peaches, while toddlers in aviator sunglasses cheer from folding chairs that cost more than the GDP of Tuvalu. The scene is quintessentially American—equal parts county…
