Post 1945 'International Air Force'

[TsrJoe]

I am not a fan of ATL./AH. scenarios but found this article in a 1946 issue of ATC. Gazette proposing a 'World Organisation' 'International Air Force' of interest.
Who knows such an idea may have led to a UN. with teeth and negated the need for organisations such as NATO. etc.

 

[royabulgaf]

"Blackhawks"? "Wings over the World"?

 

[uk 75]

"Blackhawks"? "Wings over the World"?

Things to Come - Wikipedia

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I am sure the TSRJoe's article was inspired by this film.
When World War2 broke out it generated destruction on the awful scale envisaged by the film but societies even in Germany and Japan did not collapse.
The popular 50s comic in UK The Eagle took up the idea of a UN run world where nuclear weapons and spacecraft were no longer in the hands of nations. Significantly Russia and China are not mentioned and Britain leads it.

 

[SUPER=BUG]

It is normal that the Chinese Communist Party has not yet been recognized by the British, and its seat in the United Nations in the past is still occupied by the Kuomintang. If I mentioned it, I was forced to think about a very real question at that time, whether it was China represented by the Kuomintang or China represented by the Communist Party. The reason why the Soviet Union is not mentioned is that I think it has something to do with the foreign policy of the year. In short, Communist Party was a very controversial word in that era.

 

[Hood]

There were a few interwar and early postwar thoughts on such an air force. But they were usually from the utopian/internationalist camps and more like Things to Come in being speculative wishes. Governments of course were keener to hang out to their own airpower to use for their own nefarious purposes.

 

[uk 75]

A world in which the UN prevailed in a World War 3 was imagined in great detail in the US Collier's Magazine in 1951.

Preview of the War We Do Not Want - Wikipedia

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Extrapolating from the world in 1960 described in the articles the UN would control nuclear weapons and be an international police force.

 

[Rule of cool]

The international air forces that did exist post ww2 were smaller in scope and were made up of close allies with aligned security goals. The NATO Allied Tactical Air Forces are probably the biggest international air forces.