aeropolitics

noun plural but singular in construction

aero·​pol·​i·​tics

¦er-ō-¦pä-lə-ˌtiks

: politics as conditioned by considerations of air power

the air future, a primer of aeropolitics

—Burnet Hershey

Word History

Etymology

aer- + politics

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

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