Last week one of the most influential voices in Britain spoke out against trying to build a Maginot Line of the air. Arthur William, Lord Tedder, Britain's top air strategist in World War II, deputy commander of SHAEF under Eisenhower and now vice chairman of the BBC, said that any reliance on passive defense (meaning a huge complex of radar screens, interceptor planes and antiaircraft weapons) would not "provide a deterrent to aggression [but would] bankrupt the free world and hand it over to Communism and chaos without a blow."
Speaking to the Air League of the British Empire, scholarly, pipe-puffing Air...
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