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Airport perimeters are built to absorb mistakes, not malice; when a fleeing driver punched through the fence at Portsmouth International Airport and struck a parked aircraft, the system’s redundancies kept people safe and planes moving—an outcome that underscores both how these breaches happen and how airports are engineered to contain them.

Luke Nicastro is a senior editor at The American Conservative. Before joining the magazine, he spent nearly a decade working on defense and foreign policy in both government and industry, most recently as National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley. He has also worked at the Congressional Research Service, the Department of the Navy, the National Defense University, and several defense contractors.