a colony, and opened the air base in 1923. During World War II, another axis power, the Nazis took over the air base as a strategic post in the Mediterranean. As the war turned, the British seized control of the base in 1943, and began a long period of Western influence in Libya. ...
These American airmen have in recent years flown bombing missions to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya from their bases in Britain. “The USAF presence in Britain isn’t just some remnant of the Cold War, it’s ongoing and very active,” Kate Hudson, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
The robot, developed by Ghost Robotics of Philadelphia, is a new version of its Vision series of legged robots. The US Air Force is currently testing an unarmed version of these robots for use as perimeter security at the Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. Ghost Robotics displayed t...
East Africa Response Force (EARF) - established earlier this year following a deadly incident at the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya - saw its first serious action as soldiers deployed aboard US Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft from their base at Camp Lemon-nier in Djibouti to Juba...
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Washington and its allies are not just trying to give air cover to the terrorists in Syria indirectly by setting up so-called no-fly zones. They are evidently now giving the terrorists air fire-power. As in the NATO regime-change war in Libya in 2011, the Americans, French and British ...
The show of force in Syria raises legal questions. It’s unclear what authority Trump is relying on to attack another government. When Obama intervened in Libya in 2011, he used a U.N. Security Council mandate and NATO’s overall leadership of the mission to argue that he had legal author...
Military drones may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations reportRadar and other sensors can track drones, but it is “still not practical to cover every inch of the country with detection and...
“Let’s just go to the [Indian] Air Force. Most of those Sukhois and MiGs [fighter aircraft] are referred to as ‘flying coffins.’ Very often Indian pilots die when they are testing, or flying, those,” says Aparna Pande, a political scientist at the Hudson Institute in Washington. ...
When US President George W. Bush prepared to send troops into Iraq, there weren’t a lot of questions about what TV networks or talk radio hosts were influencing his decisions. When his successor, Barack Obama, contemplated military action in Libya, Syria, and other countries, there weren’t...