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Entry: The Arsenal Of Time Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/the_arsenal_of_time#25902 Post contents: The America First Movement did not advocate that America sit on it's hands during the European war. And they weren't pacifists either. Lindbergh, who was always close to the top brass of the USAAF, believed that US air power not the Royal Navy was the military force that protected North America. He saw FDR's policies of Lend Lease etc as diverting valuable resources that should have been applied to continental defense. In particular he advocated the development of long range air power. In practice the FDR and Truman administrations actually followed Lindbergh's prescription here. They developed the B-29, the first truly long range, nearly inter-continental, bomber, in a program that actually cost more than the Manhattan Project. Had Lindbergh's prescription been taken up, presumably the USAAF could have had B-29 type weapons earlier than in fact it did. This is of course all arm chair historical speculation, but all told, probably less counter-factual than the nightmare vision of a triumphant Third Reich ruling the world with poison gas and a successful nuclear weapons program. A program, one might add, that in our real history was found to have been something of a dud. Sent at: 2008 07 06