The war of 1914 has definitely established the employment of aircraft for hostile purposes, and, as evidenced by the reception given by belligerents to neutral protests, the sovereignty of a state over its superincumbent air-spaces.
Holland discusses the implications of aircraft use in warfare and state sovereignty over airspace.
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