You use air power directed -- and you have embedded special forces to (direct) the air power.
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You use air power directed -- and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power.
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It's a strategy of air power as old as World War II. Ground troops assault the front and the air power swoops in to destroy and disrupt.
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They are tough to beat, especially by air power alone.
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The country's troops are a complement to Russian air power.
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Nor can air power deal with the deadly ISIS snipers.
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US coalition air power has obliterated much of the town.
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Casualties in both provinces were caused by American air power.
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The attack was repelled by American and Afghan air power.
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Trends are also encouraging for advocates of American air power.
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There are lots of different ways air power is used.
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Restrictions on air power are even more frustrating for field commanders.
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That has left American air power to pick up the slack.
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The attack was eventually repelled by American and Afghan air power.
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In recent years drones have become a vital component of air power.
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By utterly and completely destroying them with overwhelming air power, he said.
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It was thwarted with the help of French air power (see article).
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That is implausible given Saudi Arabia's air power and network of allies.
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Duterte said the use of air power had been restrained so far.
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Russian air power has smashed any remaining semblance of a moderate opposition.
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Though known as fierce fighters, the Kurds lack armour or air power.
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It has also led to limited use of air power and artillery.
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Russia also used limited air power to successful prop up the Syrian regime.
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In Iraq, the army, backed by coalition air power, made gains in Mosul.
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Russia's air power turned the tide of the war in favor of Assad.
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They also, by the way, understand what real U.S. air power looks like.
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And there is one additional weapon in the Syrian government arsenal: air power.
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Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, repeatedly bombed schools and medical facilities.
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Power-Lifting Suction delivers 5X the air power for improved pick-up performance.
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Power Lifting Suction delivers 10X the air power for improved pick up performance.
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In fact, he acquired "Air Power" a year after working on the film.
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Now, if we need to embed Special Forces to direct our overwhelming air power, if it is required to use ground troops to defeat ISIS, we should use them, but we ought to start with using our incredible air power advantage.
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Clinton managed to end the fighting in Bosnia in 1995 through air power alone.
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In Iraq the assistance includes not just air power but artillery and mortar support.
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By the time of the Second World War, air power had beefed up considerably.
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Eliminating regime and Russian air power could still help the rebels, the official said.
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The Assad regime, backed by Russian air power, is fighting in the provincial capital.
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But militarily it's largely symbolic and not designed to take on U.S. air power.
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But militarily it's largely symbolic and not designed to take on U.S. air power.
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Russia is Assad's most powerful international ally, providing air power and other military support.
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Hypersonic weapons, at long last, appear poised to fulfill the promise of air power.
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Without U.S. support and protection, Kurdish fighters will be no match for Turkey's air power.
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Assad has benefited from Russian air power since 2015 to regain large swathes of Syria.
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Backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Assad has retaken most of Syria.
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By clinging tightly to the population, ISIS can virtually cancel out coalition air power advantages.
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Our new smart, reconfigurable unmanned system teams with other aircraft to protect & project air power.
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Would Saudi Arabia now give Sunni groups anti-aircraft weapons to neutralise Russian air power?
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Iran has provided ground forces that work with local allies while Russia provides air power.
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Rebels, who have no air power, also attacked government-held areas, mainly with mortar shells.
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Initially Special Operations troops backed by American Air Power entered into combat zones of Afghanistan.
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The war is now largely fought by Afghan security forces backed by American air power.
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Backed by Russian air power, regime forces shelled the city repeatedly for nearly four years.
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It said the government airstrikes, backed by Russian air power, had begun nine days ago.
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There is no doubt that drones—air power in general—are far more precise than ever.
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They know what air power looks like when the United States is committed to the cause.
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Russia can and should twist his arm; after all, his survival depends on Russian air power.
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Russia is Syria's most powerful ally and has propped up the Assad regime with air power.
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Roomba 960 has power-lifting suction that delivers five times the air power for improved performance.
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" Cruz responded, "What it means is using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS.
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"I am just not convinced that space is a natural extension of air power," Hendrix said.
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But it took Russian air power to break the stalemate and give Assad the upper hand.
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The understanding is Russia provides air power while Iran and Hezbollah handle ground operations in Syria.
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With the help of heavy Russian air power, Syrian government forces have swept through the southwest.
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Op-Ed Contributor LONDON — In barely a generation, air power has shifted from indiscriminate to discriminating.
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And she cheered President Clinton's adroit use of air power to forestall ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
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It was not clear whether the airstrike was carried out by American or Afghan air power.
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Kurdish troops in Syria fought beside American special forces and air power to crush IS's "caliphate".
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"Using air power in this late phase of a counterinsurgency is ham-fisted," Mr. Page said.
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It was not clear that the airstrike was carried out by Afghan or American air power.
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It is not clear whether the airstrike was carried out by Afghan or American air power.
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In Syria, Russian air power has been used intensively to wipe out alternatives to the Assad regime.
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He did pioneering work in aviation that will help shape American air power for years to come.
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These safe havens were to be protected by a UN peacekeeping presence and, if necessary, air power.
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It retains the ability to drive back Syrian troops even in the face of Russian air power.
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NATO air power combined with American-trained Afghan special forces pack "an offensive punch", says General Nicholson.
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The Syrian army — supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias — secured al-Sukhna this month.
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The ruthless deployment of modern air power proved an efficient means of changing facts on the ground.
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Backed by American air power, his men have driven IS into the desert along the Iraqi border.
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The western part of the city has suffered less damage because the rebels had no air power.
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We're still trying to build up their air power, which would be a critical advantage for them.
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It allows the Pentagon the ability to quickly increase air power if needed, by using Reserve units.
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When American air power came to their defense, as many as 200 Russians may have been killed.
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Assad's forces, aided by Russian air power, have regained control of most lands lost in the war.
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It was not clear if the airstrike was carried out by Afghan or American air power. Oct.
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He also relaxed Obama-era rules intended to reduce civilian casualties, such as constraints on air power.
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Compared to the Roomba 600 series, this vacuum has five times the air power for improved suction.
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His men resisted in the hope that air power and reinforcements would arrive from the provincial capital.
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Everything from warfare to commerce in and around the Pacific is dominated by sea and air power.
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Backed by Russian air power, Assad has in recent years taken back one rebel enclave after another.
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No fewer than three competing forces want to declare victory in Raqqa: the Syrian army backed by Russian air power and Iranian paramilitaries; rebel factions supported by Turkish air power and artillery, and a US-sponsored (loose) alliance of Kurdish and Arab groups called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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But it would surely involve the massive use of air power against Hezbollah positions, even if they were located in civilian areas, In addition, unlike in 2006, Israel might be more likely to make use of significant numbers of ground forces and elite units, coordinated with air power.
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For example, in Iraq, the United States provides air power to government forces on the ground, which are supplemented by Iranian-controlled or Iranian-influenced militias, while in Syria, Russia provides air power to government forces on the ground, and Iran again provides them much of the manpower.
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America mainly provided air power, while relying on Kurdish fighters on the ground in both Syria and Iraq.
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Trying to dislodge the determined and deranged remnants of ISIS, but the Peshmerga backed with staggering air power.
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Sending Americans as infantry among foreign populations squanders America's advantages in air power, intelligence-gathering and special forces.
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David Goldfein speaks about the future of American air power at the American Enterprise Institute at 9 a.m.
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Backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militia groups, Assad has regained control over most of Syria.
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They will be backed by air power from international coalition forces, with engineering and medical support on hand.
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The U.S.-led coalition backing Iraqi forces with air power and military advisers admits causing unintentional civilian deaths.
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And Russia doesn't have the tank divisions or air power required to plunge into the heart of Europe.
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But now the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, is once again building up forces around Idlib.
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So you said earlier this week that we should use air power but not send in ground forces.
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Mr. Assad needs the ground forces provided by Iran and Hezbollah, which in turn need Russian air power.
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This month, the rebel stronghold in eastern Aleppo fell to pro-government troops backed by Russian air power.
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Air power can delay a determined Iranian effort to get the bomb by a few years at most.
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The air power component is there but U.S. Special Forces are still doing too much fighting and dying.
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Alongside such political steps, the administration should also rethink how it uses air power to advance diplomatic objectives.
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They laud carriers' mobility and swiftness, enabling the United States to project air power to places otherwise unreachable.
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David Goldfein will speak about allied air power at the Mitchell Institute's "Mitchell Hour" at 9:30 a.m.
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And in 1917, air power was coming into its own, showing its potential well beyond just intelligence gathering.
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"The airstrike was carried out by American air power during a military raid in the village," he said.
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In the 214s, he helped rebuild West Germany's air power, which was integrated into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Russian air power has been backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the country's nearly six-year war.
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The Iraqi-led troops have heavy weapons, tens of thousands more fighters and the support of U.S. air power.
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Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air power, have been pursuing a major offensive on Aleppo in recent months.
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John Nicholson Jr., promised recently that "a tidal wave of air power is on the horizon" against the Taliban.
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Several Taliban military commanders have been killed this month by Afghan forces, backed by U.S. advisers and air power.
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Assad is backed by Russian air power and Shi'ite militias including Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Iraq's Harakat al-Nujaba.
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Iraqi forces, with the help of Shiite militias and U.S. air power, have been pounding targets since May 23.
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In a few years, Germany may no longer have to turn to foreign suppliers for remote-controlled air power.
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A Pentagon study on Taiwan's air power recommends selling Taiwan the more advanced U.S. F-35 joint strike fighter.
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The rebels have no air power, and the devastation in Aleppo has been greater on the rebel-held side.
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Mitchell's travels led to a 22019-page report delivered in 1924 warning of Japanese air power and nefarious intentions.
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During the revolution I appreciated what the West did for us -- using their air power to go after Gadhafi.
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Assad's forces, backed by Russian air power, have been waging a five-month-long offensive in the Idlib region.
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U.S. air power effectively provided cover to Soleimani's fighters as they battled the Islamic State and its depraved barbarism.
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Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, have pummeled its citizens, including, most grimly, in the city of Aleppo.
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The Syrian government, backed by Russian air power, began an offensive to retake it on December 29 last year.
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Space is not an extension of air power; it's an entirely different medium defined by vacuum and orbital dynamics.
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In tests, Jackson's Aluminium-Air power technology could create a 1,500 mile range battery with a 90 second swap system.
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Rebel-held Aleppo has been pounded by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, backed by Russian air power.
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Mr Obama relaxed the rules last year, but not enough to allow the use of air power for offensive operations.
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He says more air power is needed and that the Army should no longer be commanding the airstrikes against ISIS.
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The Damascus government is bolstered by local militias, Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Iranian troops, as well as Russian air power.
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FIVE years after Western air power helped remove Muammar Qaddafi, the chances of another intervention in Libya are steadily increasing.
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Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air power, have cut off the last major supply route to rebels in Aleppo.
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They surrounded 29 Russian military policemen who then had to be broken out in an operation backed by air power.
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But weakening the militants with air power has come at a high cost in civilian lives, she and others said.
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Even in intense conflicts, warships will require air power to protect them from the predations of enemy ships and aircraft.
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Mr. Erdogan first sent ground forces, backed by American air power, into Syria last month to fight the Islamic State.
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Looking ahead, Poling said China will most likely work to boost its air power on the reefs in the Spratlys.
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ISIS' style is not to challenge Iraqi forces on open ground, which would make them inviting targets for air power.
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The E-3 Sentry airborne early warning and control aircraft, or AWACS, is a linchpin of United States air power.
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But the Afghan soldiers, fighting the war with limited support and air power, died in extraordinary numbers in the countryside.
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So these kind of restrictions that did not allow us to employ the air power fully have been removed, yes.
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Draft calls were now steadily shrinking as air power replaced ground troops, and military conscription would soon be gutted altogether.
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In Syria, Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces, backed by Russian air power, are keeping Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime in power.
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Afghan forces have largely fended off the Taliban's advances this year, but with a heavy reliance on American air power.
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"Operation Dawn" Thousands of Turkish troops, backed by air power, initiated Operation Dawn targeting PKK camps in northern Iraq. Feb.
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Within the past week, Palmyra has also been recaptured by the Syrian government, with the help of Russian air power.
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Islamic State is fighting separate battles against various sides in Syria's multi-sided conflict: the SDF, backed by U.S. air power; the Syrian army and its allies, supported by Russian air power in Deir al-Zor and areas further west; and Syrian rebels backed by Turkey in areas of Aleppo province northwest of Raqqa.
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The Roomba 895 loosens, lifts, and suctions dirt with up to five times the air power compared to standard robot vacuums.
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Timothy Gray, deputy director of the Boneyard, said air power has been the signature element that has defined America in combat.
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With massive Russian air power against them, and Assad getting help from Iran and Hezbollah, the rebels are losing ground everywhere.
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In Syria, government-aligned forces backed by Russian air power have recaptured territory from IS, including the ancient city of Palmyra.
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Among them: U.S. negotiators are likely to reserve the right to come to the help of Afghan forces with air power.
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A further loosening of the rules of engagement and an increase in the air-power available to him would also help.
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The raid marks the first use of air-power between the two countries since their last full-out war, in 1971.
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The military has suppressed opposition enclaves across western Syria, with the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed Shi'ite militias.
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The American-led anti-ISIS coalition will contribute air power and artillery and help coordinate logistics and planning for the operation.
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Today, though, ISIS is besieged on all sides by a much more robust coalition of forces backed by US air power.
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Many analysts have regarded Mr. Assad's assault on Idlib, backed by Russian air power, as a matter of when, not if.
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Despite the peace talks, fighting between the Taliban and Afghan forces, who are backed by U.S. air power, has not subsided.
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The West, deploying mostly air power, forestalled a massacre and, crucially, decided to keep going until they drove Qaddafi from power.
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Backed up by air power and military hardware, the Syrian leader began retaking territory lost to Syrian rebels during the war.
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From then on, we were determined to use American air power to protect civilians in the extremists' path wherever we could.
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Russia, the Syrian regime's most muscular ally, has provided much of the air power behind Assad's territorial gains in recent years.
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Assad, whom the Russians have backed through their own air power, considers pretty much anyone fighting to overthrow him a terrorist.
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But dragons actually have a lot more in common with something that we're a lot more familiar with: conventional air power.
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Obama also approved U.S. forces new authorities that enable them to accompany Afghan forces, while allowing greater use of U.S. air power.
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By the time the government had regained a semblance of control, backed by American air power, up to 250 civilians were dead.
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Assad is backed in the war by Russian air power and Shi'ite militias including Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Iraq's Harakat al-Nujaba.
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But he noted that U.S. air power from the region could be deployed, if needed, including fighter aircraft, bombers and spy planes.
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The Syrian government, backed by Russian air power, has pummeled the rebel-held parts of Aleppo, which is encircled by Syrian forces.
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The spearhead, as with the retaking of Ramadi last December, will be elite counter-terrorism units backed up by coalition air power.
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Backed by Russian air power, Assad has regained ground in the last year or so lost to the mostly Sunni Muslim rebels.
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Separately, pro-government Libyan militias, backed by U.S. air power, claim to have secured the last Islamic State stronghold in the country.
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A no-fly zone that could offer a safe haven for civilians from Syrian and Russian air power could also be problematical.
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Russian air power, which entered the war last fall, has helped Mr. Assad hold on to power and make advances against rebels.
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When presidents have used air power and special operations forces in response to perceived specific threats abroad, congressional pushback has been rare.
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Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Syrian soldiers, with Russian air power, "continued to expand the captured area" in recent days.
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"Coalition air power is certainly in demand, and we try to provide fires in a timely fashion when called upon," he said.
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The fertile and oil-rich territories the Kurds hold thanks to American air power can be bartered for some form of autonomy.
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Knocking out at least some US regional air power, according to Baker, gives the North Koreans a little bit of breathing room.
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The setbacks have been the result of attacks by African Union forces, a fitfully improving Somali Army and increasing American air power.
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This carefully modulated use of air power for specific, temporary purposes carries far fewer risks than establishing a permanent no-fly zone.
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With the United States unwilling to play a major ground combat role in Iraq and Syria, air power has become increasingly important.
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In Syria, government-aligned forces backed by Russian air power have recaptured territory from Islamic State, including the ancient city of Palmyra.
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But the constant toll on civilians by this peak in air power is growing, and has been palpable in the past weeks.
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Moscow is Assad's strongest ally and its air power since 2015 has been crucial to his recapture of vast swathes of Syria.
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Iraqi forces and Sunni tribal militias will need more robust American and coalition support — ground forces and air power — to eventually defeat ISIS.
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Syrian government forces, helped by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, broke ISIS's three-year siege on the Deir Ezzor in August.
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The battle will involve the Iraqi army, Kurdish soldiers, Shia militias, American special forces and the air power of a Western-led coalition.
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Since its first deployment of air power in Syria in 2015, Russia has kept Mr Assad in power and helped him recover territory.
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With the help of Russian air power, Syrian government forces have swept into insurgent territory in the south over the past two weeks.
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That northern city was captured in September by Taliban fighters; government forces, backed by United States air power, reclaimed the city days later.
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Overthrown in 2011 with the help of Western air power, he was captured, raped with a bayonet and shot by Western-backed rebels.
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The regime -- backed by Russian air power -- has intensified its airstrikes on Aleppo in recent days and appears to be deliberately targeting hospitals.
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Nor is Russia able to deploy enough precision-guided munitions to make air power count for much in such a densely packed city.
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It had already lost its territory, clawed back at staggering cost by a mix of American air power, Syrian militiamen and Iraqi troops.
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That will be useful, as American commanders will now have much more freedom to deploy air power than they had under Mr Obama.
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"This strike should make it clear to all that coalition air power will be used when our ground forces are threatened," Harrigian said.
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Fortunately, with the help of coalition air power, we halted their advance, eventually rolling back their territorial claims by hundreds of square miles.
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United States commanders will now be allowed to use air power against the Taliban when they see fit, Pentagon and administration officials said.
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The Mosul offensive, supported by U.S. coalition air power, involves 100,000-strong combined forces of Iraqi troops, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Shi'ite militias.
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"It ... makes a statement that they can extend their air power reach over the South China Sea as required or desired," he said.
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The group has been targeted by the Afghan Army and United States air power in its stronghold, the Achin district in Nangarhar province.
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Afghan commandos, supported by American air power, retaliated with frequent airstrikes and special operations raids, some of them blamed for causing civilian casualties.
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They brought with them more advanced air power, better coordinated air support for ground troops, and guided artillery, as well as trained snipers.
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The rise comes after the departed US commander for the war promised a "tidal wave of air power" to combat a resurgent Taliban.
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And the first phase — "clearing" — was a euphemism for violence, repeatedly applied via small gunfights and supported by American artillery and air power.
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He asserted that this approach to future war was more 'culturally compatible' because air power and long‐range bombing are America's asymmetrical advantage.
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U.S. officials said earlier this month they were considering a request from the United Arab Emirates request for air power, intelligence and logistics support.
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And using air power is difficult in densely-populated areas, where vehicle suicide bombs surge out of side streets and buildings are booby-trapped.
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A "shift has occurred towards there toward eventual defeat," he said at the Virginia Military Institute, but calculated that air power alone was inadequate.
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It's not quite as elegant as Apple's Air Power charging pad, but at least this thing seems like its closer to actually being available.
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The Russian forces -- and particularly its air power -- played a decisive role in propping up Assad at a time when he appeared in jeopardy.
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The offensive follows the pattern of previous assaults on rebel strongholds, deploying air power and tight sieges to force insurgents to accept "evacuation" deals.
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These tactics, along with Russian air power and Iranian military expertise, now appear to have propelled Mr Assad to his greatest victory so far.
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While Western powers brought a lot of air power to the battlefield, they always had problems mustering a viable ground force to reclaim land.
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With the help of Russian air power, pro-government forces have marched swiftly into insurgent territory in Deraa province in the past two weeks.
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Western-backed Syrian rebels in the area said they came under attack on Tuesday by government forces, Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power.
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China's efforts are aimed mainly at degrading America's sea- and land-based air power and thus limiting the kind of war it can wage.
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Military expansion Earlier this month, China unveiled its first homegrown large military transport aircraft, as the country pushes to greatly expand its air power.
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The offensive involves around 100,000 Iraqi soldiers, federal police, Shi'ite militias and peshmerga fighters, backed by the air power of a U.S.-led coalition.
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Mr O'Hanlon says that the willingness to use some force is essential, both through air power and a few more boots on the ground.
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Other critics doubt the proposed truce will work as the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, pursues a major offensive in northern Syria.
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Russian firepower Assad's forces are grateful for the assistance they say has turned the course of the war in their favor: Russian air power.
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Kabul is so dependent on Washington for budget support, air power, salary payments, and logistics that it's a guarantee the central government would suffer.
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Arain countered any suggestion that Pakistan might want greater air power to target India by saying that New Delhi itself was expanding its fleet.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government is backed by Russian air power and Shi'ite militias, including Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Iraq's Harakat al-Nujaba.
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The best American-trained Iraqi counterterrorism forces, backed by some army units, federal police and American air power, will make the assault on Mosul.
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Russia is Assad's most powerful ally and its devastating air power has helped him wrest back large areas of territory from rebels since 2015.
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Afghan commandos, supported by U.S. Special forces and American and Afghan air power, have been carrying out an operation against the militants in Nangarhar.
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Israel has had considerable success in preventing Iran from creating permanent bases and military production facilities in Syria through its use of air power.
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"It also makes a statement that they can extend their air power reach over the South China Sea as required or desired," Schuster said.
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The security forces have repeatedly had to call on the small American contingent here — and its considerable air power — to rescue them from trouble.
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Backed by Russian air power, Syrian government forces are attempting to seize the last remaining territory there held by Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces.
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Supplemental Afghan air power, flown with Afghan markings, would include a contractor safety pilot, but only the onboard Afghan officer would make weapons decisions.
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"They are effective weapons," he said, that were best suited to capitalize on Mr. Assad's air power superiority and compensate for his manpower shortages.
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" During a Republican presidential debate in December, the senator explained that he wanted to use "overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS.
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Thousands died and hundreds of thousands more fled before the regime, backed by Russian air power, recaptured the city from rebels in December 5.53.
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But the Kremlin calculated that a combination of Russian air power and Iranian militia on the ground could reverse the course of the war.
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This month, Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters, supported by American advisers and air power, began the battle for Raqqa, the militants' self-declared capital.
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Before the Russian Air Force lent its air power to the Syrian regime in 2015, Assad was on the verge of losing it all.
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When you say air power, you mean that the dragons are more like warplanes — and together an air force — more so than nuclear bombs.
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Close to the Turkish border, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad , aided by Russian air power, is advancing against a coalition of rebel groups.
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Depending on the scale of the campaign, the United States could consider beefing up the naval and air power of its Pacific Command, they said.
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The seduction of supposedly sanitized air power is strong, especially for presidents who want to use military force but fear that it will be messy.
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This cleaning machine features the revolutionary AeroForce Cleaning System, which is capable of delivering up to five times more air power while requiring less maintenance.
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President Trump's new strategy in Afghanistan primarily involves American troops training the Afghan National Army and supporting security forces with air power, per the Times.
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But even Russia's overwhelming air power was not enough to hold the town, as Syrian government forces, stretched thin by years of conflict, retreated Sunday.
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Carter plans to offer a long list of required military capabilities — which, beyond air power, include training Iraqi forces and help with intelligence and surveillance.
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Justin Bronk is a research fellow for combat air power and technology in the military sciences program at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
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Russia has played a critical role in supporting Assad's two-week offensive with air power and negotiating local deals initially overseen by its military police.
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This time it looks like they have succeeded, and if Russian air power persists, it will be tough for rebels to open the road again.
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Hezbollah's support has been crucial to Assad in the conflict, together with backing from Shi'ite militias mobilized from Iran and Iraq and Russian air power.
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Ten of the drones, which the Kremlin described as "aircraft-type," assaulted Khmeimim air base, where Russia stages most of its air power in Syria.
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As a result of the Taliban gains, in June the Obama administration loosened the rules of engagement for using American air power against the Taliban.
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Syrian government air strikes and barrel bombing backed by Russian air power have uprooted around 250,000 people in the territory, the last significant rebel stronghold.
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Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies says that "US and allied air power is critical" to prevent the Afghan army's defeat.
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Iran brought disciplined ground troops who worked well with their local allies, while Russia provided the first-rate air power that Iran and Assad lack.
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Supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Assad appears militarily unassailable and last month Assad ally Hezbollah declared victory in the Syrian war.
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The Russians have deployed formidable air power since September to help the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who had been ceding ground.
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Advanced militaries must choose one of two alternatives: exercise air power, thus causing civilian casualties, or deploy boots on the ground, thus risking heavy losses.
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Government forces are backed by Russian air power and battle-hardened Lebanese and Iraqi Shi'ite militia fighters under the apparent oversight of an Iranian general.
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In addition, the resolution imposes new measures to restrict the flow of banned materials into North Korea by road, rail, sea or air, Power said.
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In December the Syrian army, helped by Iran-backed militias and heavy Russian air power, launched a major offensive to take territory in Idlib province.
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Assad's forces are supported by Russian air power, Iranian militias and fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah group who have sent reinforcements to shore up the army.
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The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces took control here about 18 months ago, in a campaign supported by American Special Operations forces and air power.
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Iraqi officials say a massive ground assault could begin this month, backed by U.S. air power, Kurdish security forces and Shi'ite and Sunni irregular units.
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Local authorities claimed that 213 Taliban fighters were killed and 213 others were wounded when Taliban positions were bombed by American and Afghan air power.
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Supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed troops, government forces have reclaimed rebel-held territory after killing civilians with sieges, airstrikes and chemical weapons.
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In the past, when Kunduz fell to the Taliban, American air power and Special Operations troops intervened to help restore the city to government control.
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But it's with massive conventional air power married to unconventional special forces, who are advising the Iraqi Army that is actually doing the ground fighting.
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Afghan security forces, accompanied by American advisers and air power, have been trying to reduce the group's territory and number of fighters with multiple operations.
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Losses stemming from the battle so drastically reduced Japanese air power that their use of kamikaze operations was necessary throughout the rest of the war.
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Refugee camps—safe zones, should be announced protected by Arab ally troops from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States – and our air power.
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The move included 40 warships as well as air power, with the carrier launching nearly 90 F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets from its deck.
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Nonetheless, American Special Forces, air power, and other forward deployed personnel in Syria provide leverage in an area where we would otherwise have very little.
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Instead, they have shifted toward terrifying if brief guerrilla-style attacks in Kabul and other urban districts, where American air power is of little use.
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The other use of air power that we're familiar with from movies like Top Gun, of course, is "dog fighting" or air-to-air combat.
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Rebels took control of eastern Aleppo in 2014, and government forces have besieged the area, battering it from above with the help of Russian air power.
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The Syrian regime, backed by Russian air power, increasingly bombarded this part of the city in an effort to oust rebels who took control in 2012.
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Much of it has been reduced to rubble as regime forces backed by Russian air power have pounded the area while humanitarian crisis there become catastrophic.
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A rising chorus accuses the Saudi-led coalition of using its Western-supplied and maintained air power indiscriminately in its campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
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The Syrian government forces had captured Kansaba in February, part of a wider advance in Latakia's northern countryside at the time, backed by Russian air power.
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All the air power of the NATO-led coalition was not enough to defeat the militants and the AAF is nowhere near being able operate alone.
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Along with Russian air power and Iranian military aid, Hizbullah's ground units have kept the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's blood-soaked president, in power.
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After helping turn the tide of the war in Assad's favour with air power and military support, Russia has increasingly cast itself as a peace-broker.
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Government forces and their militia allies, backed by Russian air power, took the city back from Islamic State in March, after first losing it in 2015.
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They also worry about a more direct conflict between the United States and Russia, which began to use air power last fall to bolster Mr. Assad.
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Thanks to coalition arms, training and air power, the peshmerga, Iraqi Kurdish troops whose name means "one who confronts death", now surround it on three sides.
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Amphibious capability, or the ability to project ground and air power across the sea to another shore, is a vital component of the Chinese military's mission.
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Government troops, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, have been snuffing out pockets of rebellion near the capital, forcing surrender on besieged rebels.
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Assad's forces, helped by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, have managed to re-establish control over most of Syria over the past two years.
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The Combined Air and Space Operations Center (CAOC) oversees US military air power in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and 18 other nations, according to the Air Force.
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The Zero's air-to-air combat abilities were second to none during much of the war, making it the most famous symbol of Japanese air power.
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Joseph Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to portray the artillery battery that came under attack as analogous to air power.
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Syria's army and Iran-backed militias, with Russian air power, have crushed insurgents near Damascus in eastern Ghouta - one of the four mooted "de-escalation zones".
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Check out more videos from VICE: The U.S. also provides air power, more than 2600 drones attacks in 2017 alone (double those in 2016), and intelligence.
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Naval and air power are at the core of the American forces in the Western Pacific, and that's likely to remain the case for some time.
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The Avtobaza, for one, can detect targets up to 93 miles away, according to Air Power Australia, an independent think tank specializing in military electronic systems.
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As the group's foothold in eastern Afghanistan has come under pressure from sustained Afghan military operations and American air power, it has increasingly claimed urban attacks.
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Soon the Serbs struck at Bosnian civilians again, this time with a mortar attack on a crowded marketplace, and the Atlantic alliance responded with air power.
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But rather than do it all ourselves, we partnered with the Iraqi Army and amplified its power and ground forces with our advisers and air power.
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Among those killed were four children and two women, and it was not clear if the airstrike was carried out by Afghan or American air power.
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Mr. Trump's decision on arming the Syrian Kurds comes as Iraqi forces, backed by American and allied air power and artillery, are making headway in Mosul.
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The American military has a $6.5-billion plan to make the Afghan air force self-sufficient and end its overreliance on American air power by 2023.
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Government forces, backed by Russian air power, have launched a major assault to capture the northwest, the last remaining territory held by rebels backed by Turkey.
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Government forces, backed by Russian air power, have launched a major assault to capture the northwest, the last remaining territory held by rebels backed by Turkey.
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The Obama administration initially limited the use of American air power against the Taliban, hoping to make the Afghan military less dependent on the United States.
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The rebels lack the ability to evacuate and care for those wounded on the battlefield and face deadly air power from United States and Afghan forces.
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Vastly outnumbered, Nelson -- heading up what's described as the military's "most venomous snake" -- must rely on helping target U.S. air power to level the playing field.
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The Syrian army, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power, announced a major offensive to capture the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sept.
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The Syrian army, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power, announced a major offensive to capture the rebel-held part of the city on Sept.
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Besides, Russian aircraft do not add much to the coalition air power already attacking IS. Ground troops would, but Mr Putin is highly unlikely to deploy them.
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With its deployment of air power to Syria in 2015, Russia saved Mr Assad, helped him to recover lost territory and scored a tactical victory over America.
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The caliphate was eventually smashed, in Iraq and Syria, by varying coalitions involving American air power, Iranian-sponsored Shia militias, the Iraqi army and Syrian Kurdish fighters.
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President Bashar al-Assad's government has been steadily defeating pockets of armed rebellion near the capital, with the help of Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias.
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With the help of Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, the Syrian army has been stepping up attacks on Islamic State in the eastern Aleppo countryside.
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The aircraft has been the subject of heated debate in air power circles for many years as Chinese military bloggers leaked images of the various preproduction prototypes.
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The Syrian government troops backed by Russian air power completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo city last week, cutting off all supply lines to those areas.
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Rather than commit substantial land forces, the United States is providing Special Forces, intelligence resources and substantial air power to Iraqi and Syrian fighters on the ground.
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With the help of Iran-backed militias and Russian air power, they advanced towards Abu al-Duhur military airport, where rebels had ousted the army in 2015.
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Since June 19, government forces aided by Russian air power have swept through southwestern Syria to consolidate Assad&aposs control over this strategic corner of the country.
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"Recent events demonstrate the continued need to provide consistent and credible air power throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific region," the commander of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, Gen.
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The coalition has supported the SDF with air power and special forces throughout its Raqqa campaign, which began in November with an offensive to isolate the city.
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Both the Syrian government and its Russian ally, whose air power has been critical to Damascus' military gains in recent years, deny targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure.
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Critics have expressed doubts about the prospects of the proposed truce as the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, pursues a major offensive in northern Syria.
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In a recent editorial in the Washington Post, one of Campbell's predecessors, David Petraeus, said Washington should "unleash our air power in support of our Afghan partners".
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They are supported by U.S.-led air power, including jets and Apache helicopters, and Western military advisers who have accompanied Iraqi forces on the edge of Mosul.
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Startling drone footage by Brazilian photographer Gabriel Chaim shows how barely a wall has escaped the force of Saudi air power, and at times Houthi shelling too.
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The UAE backs Khalifa Haftar, the military strongman in Libya, violating a UN arms embargo on the country to boost his air power, according a UN report.
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Afghan security forces, backed by American air power and ground advisers, have been battling the militants in Nangarhar Province for months now, with varying degrees of success.
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BTF "rotations provide us with a consistent and near-continuous long-range weapon capability, and represent our ability to project air power around the globe," said Gen.
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The military has steadily defeated pockets of armed rebellion in western Syria over the past year, with the help of Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias.
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The attacks crystallized Libya's descent into chaos after the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, which, with help from NATO air power, had toppled the country's longtime dictator, Col.
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"We sent more troops to the district and also called in air power to take part in ongoing fighting to halt the Taliban's progress," Mr. Mehri said.
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The US-led coalition "is providing air power to support the Iraqi government forces in Fallujah," its spokesman, US Army Colonel Steve Warren, told Reuters by phone.
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Taliban insurgents had recently overrun most of the strategic city of Ghazni for six days, until American Special Operations forces and air power helped wrest it back.
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Two competing coalitions that aim to defeat the Islamic State — one backed by American air power, the other by Russian warplanes — are racing to the same goal.
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This incident shows that careful, limited use of air power can not only effectively defend American forces but also protect Syrian civilians and address urgent humanitarian needs.
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International powers have supplied arms and air power, though there has been a lull in air strikes since Russia and Turkey called for a truce starting Jan.
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Leaders operating in Afghanistan are now allowed greater use of offensive American air power against the Taliban and have tripled the number of munitions dropped on insurgents.
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The senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the decision would also allow greater use of U.S. air power, particularly close air support.
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The U.S.-led coalition uses air power and special forces to back an alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish militia fighting Islamic State northeast of Albu Kamal.
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Government forces backed by Russian air power have turned their focus to the southwest since defeating the last remaining besieged insurgent pockets including eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.
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Another use of air power is "strategic bombing," where you might bomb a factory or part of a city to destroy it and aid the war effort.
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"Air Power", a painting by New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat with an estimate of at least $3.3 million, was among the handful of items featured by Sotheby's.
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US aircraft carrier readies for ISIS fight Airstrikes ahead of offensive The United States is also using its air power to lay the ground for the coming battle.
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Syria's army, backed by Russian air power, launched ground operations this week against the southern flank of the rebel zone consisting of Idlib and parts of adjacent provinces.
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More than 100 of them are embedded with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, advising commanders and helping them ensure coalition air power hits the right targets, officials say.
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It features the AeroForce Cleaning System, delivering up to five times more air power as it wipes out the dust bunnies and spills you have around your house.
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Karzai replaced the Taliban's hardline Islamist rule as Afghanistan's first democratically elected leader after the Islamists were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces, supported by U.S. air power.
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Michael Frodl, of the U.S.-based consultancy C-Level Global Risks, said China's goal was to use "air power to project into the waters" around the artificial islands.
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Iraqi forces, backed by Western air power, drove ISIS fighters out of the heart of Ramadi last week, but militants still control parts of the city's eastern districts.
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Iraq's federal police chief, Lieutenant General Raed Shakir Jawdat, said new advances, supported by air power, were being aided by "precise targeting of selected positions" provided by intelligence.
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But now China has military ambitions in the South China Sea and beyond, and wants the ability to challenge American naval and air power in the western Pacific.
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But the two — a lighter-than-air power-fantasy set in a believable world that is thick with characters and events inspired by real human injustices — rarely gel.
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Syrian forces supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power began their push to take the whole of the divided city after a ceasefire collapsed last month.
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He made no mention of the idea that Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air power, should stop fighting however, and denied Moscow and Ankara disagreed over Idlib.
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"So in some sense, that kind of extreme optimism about air-power targeting is baked into Air Force culture, is baked into the Air Force cake," he added.
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The spike in bombs released show a dramatic escalation of American air power aimed at militants following the collapse of peace negotiations with the Taliban in early September.
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Supported by Iran-backed militias and Russian air power, Assad's forces have since late October taken back rebel-held territory in Idlib and the northeastern province of Hama.
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The Syrian army, with Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, has been waging its own separate offensive against Islamic State, mostly to the west of the river.
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Australian air power was deployed last week in the Philippine city of Marawi, where the government is fighting to regain control from militants loyal to the Islamic State.
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He noted that the United States maintains a strong capability for reconnaissance and combat air power to protect American forces and to carry out strike missions when necessary.
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Backed by American-led air power, the allied Syrian militias in the past three weeks have cleared Islamic State fighters near the Iraqi-Syrian border, military officials said.
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Hypersonics represent an apotheosis of sorts for many warfare theorists and practitioners, who have long contended that air power alone can have a decisive effect in a conflict.
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This seemed to vindicate the role of air power, at least until the superpowers concluded that such destructive weapons could not really be used to fight a war.
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In effect, Russian and American air power is being used not just to attack the Islamic State but also to compete for influence in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
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The exercise is "aimed at enhancing the all-weather, day and night combined air power operation capabilities of South Korea and the U.S.," South Korea's defense ministry said.
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The hidden explosives, the commanders say, have helped keep the conflict close to a standstill despite the superior air power and other resources of the Saudi-led coalition.
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They lie in an area captured by government forces at the end of last year in a large offensive assisted by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power.
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But I think it's true that dragons have been employed, both on the show and historically in the universe of the books, much more like conventional air power.
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The Syrian army -- backed by Russian air power -- has made advances from the south-west, while a Kurdish-led alliance supported by U.S. airstrikes is attacking from the north.
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She's the only person in this fantasy world with an air force and that gives her an advantage, but no one ever won a war on air power alone.
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Among the top lots in the sale is a piece by the late New York painter Jean-Michel Basquiat titled, "Air Power," estimated at $3.3 million to $4.6 million.
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The strategy calls on local forces like the SDF to carry out the brunt of the combat while US special forces and air power act as a force multiplier.
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"By working closely together, government and industry have ensured we remain at the forefront of civil aviation and that our air power is second to none," May will say.
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The last city of any size in Syria that ISIS holds -- Raqqa -- is under growing pressure, with US and coalition air power carrying out daily airstrikes against ISIS positions.
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The eastern part of the city has been held by rebel groups since 2012 with the recent government siege, backed by Russian air power, cutting off many supply routes.
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Such skills will come in handy—it now looks as if American commanders will have much more freedom to deploy air power than they were allowed by Mr Obama.
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The dispute is a big test for the United States, which has a large base in Qatar housing the headquarters of its Middle East air power and 11,000 troops.
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The US military's air power was initially part of the Army as the Army Air Corps, until the Air Force was established as an independent military branch in 1947.
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Russia's intervention in the Syrian conflict has decisively helped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime had suffered major setbacks before Russian air power entered the fray in September.
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Hundreds of thousands trapped The United Nations has warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe as regime troops backed by Russian air power tighten their grip on the ruined city.
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The current phase of the campaign is the most difficult as narrow alleyways in the densely populated old city limit the use of artillery, air power and armoured vehicles.
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Haji Nayim, a former Jihadi leader and tribal elder, hosted an event for Taliban members; the event was bombed by American air power, killing Nayim and four other civilians.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has recently stepped up attacks in the last major opposition bastion -- home to 3 million Syrians -- bolstered by the use of Russian air power.
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Assad's army, with support from Russian air power, has stepped up its attacks on Idlib, the country's last major opposition bastion and home to more than 3 million Syrians.
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Yes, but again: The way he describes their usage — both in his books and then the way the show expresses them — is a lot more like conventional air power.
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Understrength Afghan security forces, struggling with heavy casualties and high desertion rates and short of air power, transport, and logistical support, have struggled in their first year fighting largely alone.
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The CTS and federal police are part of a 100,000-strong Iraqi force made up of the military, Kurdish fighters and Shi'ite militias, backed by U.S.-led coalition air power.
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I was sure that if we could show the world how ruthless and brutal the Assad government was, using air power against its own people, it would make a difference.
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The forces in Deraa province recovered the crossing on Friday in an offensive that has swept into insurgent territory in southwest Syria with the help of heavy Russian air power.
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Understrength Afghan security forces, struggling with heavy casualties and high desertion rates and short of air power, transport and logistical support, have struggled in their first year fighting largely alone.
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And since the insurgency has begun, Haftar has received additional air power from Egypt and the same UAE that signed the five-power statement urging an end to the fighting.
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Europe still depends on the United States for the bulk of NATO's military muscle (especially nuclear weapons, heavy armor, air power and logistics) and for intelligence collection and diplomatic heft.
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Backed by air power from a US-led coalition and by Kurdish peshmerga forces, Iraqi troops advanced westwards, recapturing several villages from the Islamist militants, according to multiple military sources.
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However, Sweden said the plan allowed both sides to carry out studies with other partners and stressed its Gripen fighter would meet its air power needs "for the foreseeable future".
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We unfortunately did not have the opportunity to discuss whether the allied forces of the living had misused their tactical air power advantage in the battle with the Night King.
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Syrian government forces have taken scores of villages in recent weeks near the provincial border between Idlib and Hama, with the help of Iran-backed militias and Russian air power.
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Syrian opposition: 58 massacres of civilians by Russia The upheaval in northern Syria stems in large part from a major Syrian government offensive, backed by Russian air power, on Aleppo.
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The Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, Shi'ite militias supported by Iran and local fighters from the Druze sect have besieged the rebel enclave around Beit Jin for weeks.
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The Air Force is "absolutely" considering increasing its air power in Afghanistan, including stepping up strikes and expanding training for the Afghan air force, a top U.S. official said Tuesday.
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CAIRO — Pro-government Libyan militias backed by American air power said Wednesday that they had seized the Islamic State's last stronghold in the country, in the seaside city of Surt.
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For example, agile software tools that help us efficiently plan the "last mile" of fuel delivery — aerial refueling — will provide combatant commanders with greater flexibility and maximize combat air power.
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Additionally, a pilot shortage and reductions in flying time have left the service less prepared to field the kind of air power that would be necessary for a major war.
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Since late 2015, government forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air power have wrested back large amounts of northern and western territory overrun by IS in a shock 2014 offensive.
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The strikes demonstrated the United States' growing concern over Libya as a new base for the Islamic State and its willingness to use air power against militant commanders and infrastructure.
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Increased U.S. or allied air power would be required if Trump chooses to enforce "no fly" restrictions, and ground forces might also be needed to protect civilians in those areas.
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With the help of Russian air power, the Syrian army has been hitting Islamic State in a separate pocket further west, near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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The campaign, using air power, artillery and ground troops, has alarmed the United States which has supported the YPG, or People's Protection Units, in fighting Islamic State in northern Syria.
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That would be a boost for Assad's opponents, who have been losing ground for the last two years to government forces supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias.
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Doing so would put it in an exclusive club of countries including the United States, Russia, Britain and more recently China that able to project air power over long distances.
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The Syrian government and its ally Russia, which has backed Assad with air power since 2015, say they do not target civilians and point to rebel mortar fire on Damascus.
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The Shabab have lost much of their territory after being forced out of Mogadishu since 2011 as a result of attacks by African Union forces and increased American air power.
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More than 100 of them are embedded with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces involved with the Mosul offensive, advising commanders and helping ensure coalition air power hits the right targets.
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Fierce fighting has ensued as rebel militias have attempted to break the siege, and regime troops, backed by Russian air power, have responded with intense strikes on opposition-controlled areas.
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Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a trenchant critic of the use of American air power in Afghanistan, condemned the strikes, but otherwise reaction from Afghan political leaders was relatively muted.
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Many Europeans would consider it odd for the bloc to bolster its indigenous defence capabilities, only to put its future air-power in the hands of a diplomatically freewheeling outsider. ■
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"Our main focus is to ensure that the 1st Theater Sustainment Command's air power remains ready to carry out all necessary sustainment operations in the CENTCOM AOR at all times."
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Syrian troops backed by Russian air power are clearly hoping to crush the last bastions of opposition resistance, opening up supply routes across the country and to the capital Damascus.
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OWI Air Power Racer Kit, available at Amazon, $30.13This toy is an ideal way for kids to construct a car and figure out how to power it up with air.
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China may well have surpassed Japan as the most powerful Asian naval and air power and is fast approaching parity with American forces when it comes to China's immediate periphery.
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Ali Jamil, an intelligence officer with the Iraqi special forces, said he had been fighting the Islamic State for more than two years with the support of American air power.
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But like the American military fighting in Vietnam or Afghanistan, the Targaryens found that air power is difficult to use against forces that are willing to scatter and conceal themselves.
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The musician was certainly drawn to bright hues: he owned Basquiat's bold painting "Air Power" (1984), which features bursts of red, blue, orange, and yellow amid an otherwise foreboding scene.
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The French president emphasized that within a day or so, Colonel Qaddafi's troops would be inside Benghazi, mingling with civilians, making it difficult or impossible to use air power against them.
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Russia is the most powerful sponsor of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and its air power has been a key factor in helping the government solidify its control over Aleppo.
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Hewson also said the development of the aircraft, which is estimated to cost $1 billion, will change the "definition of air power by giving the U.S. significant tactical and strategic advantages."
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The US partnered with the Syrian Kurds to defeat ISIS's territorial caliphate; the US air power controlled by skilled Special Operations Forces (SOF) saved the Kurds from being slaughtered by ISIS.
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U.S. officials say a substantial amount of air power has been focused against ISIS this year, with roughly a hundred strikes on targets in the east of Afghanistan that include ISIS.
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It features the revolutionary AeroForce Cleaning System that delivers up to five times more air power, and uses a 3-stage system— agitation, brushing, and suction — to render your home spotless.
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But why would the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- which is backed by Russian air power and has an extensive conventional arsenal -- turn to such crude and outlawed weapons?
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Creation of safe zones could ratchet up U.S. military involvement in Syria, including increased U.S. air power to enforce "no fly" restrictions and ground forces to protect civilians in those areas.
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" Clinton blamed Russia for backing Assad, arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin "has basically weighed in, particularly with air power, to support this fight-to-the-death policy that Assad has.
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The Syria Democratic Forces, comprised of Kurdish and Arab fighters and backed by the air power of a U.S.-led coalition to fight IS, have been involved in the Manbij operation.
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Fires to stop the bombs Some neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo have been under fire for more than 80 consecutive days, with regular bombardment by regime forces backed by Russian air power.
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" She promised air power and other support to Arab and Muslim allies but added, "We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again, and we're not putting them into Syria.
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Rebels deployed tanks and air power in a show of force in Istanbul and Ankara, but this was not enough to intimidate the rest of the military, which eventually overcame them.
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The Syrian military, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power, began a push to take the whole of the divided city of Aleppo after a ceasefire collapsed last month.
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The dispute is a test for the United States, which has a large base in Qatar that is home to the headquarters of its Middle East air power and 11,000 troops.
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As Russian air power is a principle force keeping Assad's enemies at bay, Putin undoubtedly has the clout to follow through on what his diplomats signed up for in New York.
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North Korea has far more troops than South Korea (1.19 million versus 655,000), but should a conventional fight break out, US and South Korean air power would help balance the scales.
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The battle to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah has begun: 2100,24 Iraqi soldiers, backed by US air power and advisers, are attempting to expel some 2000 to 25,2000 ISIS fighters.
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The Syrian government is carrying out an offensive backed by Russian air power against the enclave that has caused hundreds of thousands of civilians, many already displaced, to flee their homes.
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Civilian casualties have risen in the past year with the great increase in fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government units, often supported by American Special Operations troops and air power.
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For now, two very different rebel-held areas are bearing the brunt of attacks by government forces, supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, including the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
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Critics have said the March 17 airstrike demonstrated that the United States has been too quick to use air power in a congested city filled with hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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He said that US personnel were on the ground in an advisory role and US air power had killed 140 Taliban since August 10, with two airstrikes on Monday morning alone.
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Supported by Iran-backed militias and Russian air power, President Bashar al-Assad's forces have taken territory in northeastern Hama and southern Idlib provinces since beginning an offensive in late October.
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"I don't think she had much choice," said Justin Bronk, a research fellow for air power at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense and security focused research institute in London.
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Relations between Russia and Turkey have soured after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria's Idlib province in a strike by Syrian government forces, who are backed by Russian air power.
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The worries about civilian casualties have grown as Iraqi forces push to take western Mosul from the Islamic State with the help of American and allied air power, rockets and artillery.
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Iraqi forces, with the help of Shiite militias and U.S. air power, began advancing toward Falluja on May 23 in hopes of wresting control of the city from the clutches of ISIS.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)Over the past few years, Ossia has impressed us with demonstrations of its over-the-air power delivery system which promises to make charging cables and pads obsolete.
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Meanwhile, the majority Pashtun Taliban was routed by a coalition of militias from Afghanistan's non-Pashtun ethnic minority groups, known as the Northern Alliance, backed by US ground forces and air power.
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Fighting continues in many parts of Syria, and rebels say the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and fighters from Iranian-backed Hezbollah, has kept up attacks on strategically important frontlines.
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Syria's air force and army, supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, have stepped up an offensive in Hama in recent weeks, pushing north toward the rebel stronghold of Idlib.
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Islamic State has lost swathes of territory in recent months to the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iran-allied militias, in eastern Deir al-Zor province that borders Iraq.
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It is one of the blessings of the United States of America, having the greatest military on the face of the earth, is we have the ability to use that air power.
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It has deployed air power and some ground troops in support of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia that is close to seizing the jihadists' last enclave in eastern Syria.
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Dave Deptula, who planned the air campaign in the first Iraq war and is a vigorous advocate of conventional air power, insisted that the military should be directing more firepower at ISIS.
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Through a series of so-called settlement agreements and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition around the capital.
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President Trump has unleashed U.S. air power since coming into office, something that was brought into sharp focus this week by the first use of the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan.
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Residents describe life under siege The United Nations has warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe in Aleppo as regime troops, backed by Russian air power, tighten their grip on the ruined city.
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Up to 300,000 people may be trapped The United Nations has warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe as regime troops backed by Russian air power tighten their grip on the ruined city.
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Although the Afghan National Security and Defense Force (ANDSF) has grown significantly since its post-Taliban rebirth, the ANDSF still suffers from attrition, corruption, logistics and maintenance deficiencies, and inadequate air power.
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The Iraqi army is also backed by U.S. air power, as well as by powerful Iran-backed Shi'ite militia led by politicians who have emerged as rivals of Prime Minister Haider Abadi.
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With Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, the Syrian army reached Deir al-Zor city last month, breaking an Islamic State siege of an enclave there that had lasted three years.
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Now, many of those insurgent gains have been reversed, and Russian air power helped cut off critical opposition supply lines into Turkey, isolating the rebel-held portion of Aleppo, Syria's largest city.
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Israel has repeatedly struck Hezbollah in Syria, where the group and its Iranian ally have played a key military role in fighting rebels alongside Assad's forces, backed by massive Russian air power.
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Increased U.S. or allied air power would be required if President Donald Trump chooses to enforce 'no fly' restrictions, and ground forces might also be needed to protect civilians in those areas.
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It seeks not only to squeeze the group's opium revenues, but also to increase Afghan army offensives backed by American air power and to hold elections to enhance the Afghan government's legitimacy.
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The airstrikes took place in the Chardara district, where Afghan commandos, often advised by the American military and supported by United States air power, had been carrying out operations for several days.
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The city is protected from Syrian government strikes by American air power, but many Arabs have been reluctant to live under the Kurdish-run administration, which among other things enforced military conscription.
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Ryan S. Dillon, the American coalition spokesman for Iraq and Syria, would not predict a timeline for the Iraqi military, supported by American advisers and air power, to finally oust the extremists.
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In Syria the U.S.-led coalition uses air power and special forces to back the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, in their fight against Islamic State.
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The worsening conflict forced the evacuation in early 2015 of U.S. military and intelligence personnel who had orchestrated an anti-AQAP campaign involving Yemeni special forces raids backed by U.S. air power.
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He urges America to support Egypt's despot, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and wants to wants to "serve notice upon North Korea that it is within reach of American naval air power".
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Moving east from the heart of Syria is the alliance backing President Bashar al-Assad, consisting of the Syrian Army and Iran-backed militias, supported by Russian air power and Iranian advisers.
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Rebels in Aleppo opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government are fighting to defend themselves against the firepower of the Syrian army, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power.
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In Mosul, the Americans and their allies have provided the air power, rocket fire, artillery and advisers, enabling Iraqi forces to move forward in their push to take the city's western half.
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Russian air power has been instrumental in helping to get Syrian allied forces to the cusp of an outright victory in the key northern city of Aleppo, after four years of carnage.
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Already, said OCHA, their programming in the province had been adversely affected by the regime's offensive, which has employed Shia militias, including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, and is backed by Russian air power.
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Obama predicted Putin would be caught in a "quagmire," but Moscow's carefully crafted incursion, with massive air power and virtually no ground troops, enabled Syrian forces to capture the key city of Aleppo.
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Through a series of local deals, sieges and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition around its heavily-fortified capital.
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President Bashar al-Assad's forces have recovered swathes of territory from rebels with the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, and he has repeatedly pledged to take back "every inch".
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russian air power, have made large advances in Idlib, prompting Turkey to warn it may launch a military operation there unless the fighting is halted.
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"The significance is the demonstration of how NATO is seeking to evolve and develop it air power capabilities," said Stuart Evans, deputy commander of NATO's Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) at Ramstein Air Base.
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The ISIS stronghold has come under fire from both the Syrian army backed by Russian air power, and a Kurdish-led alliance supported by U.S. airstrikes, in an attempt to reclaim the city.
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Idlib is the last major area of Syria still in rebel hands after a string of government offensives backed by Russian air power since 2015 turned the tables in a protracted civil war.
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The incident nonetheless underlined one of the risks of the greater use of air power under the new U.S. strategy announced last year to try to force the Taliban to the negotiating table.
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The heavily armed fighters had gone to ground in residential areas following their surprise attack on Tuesday, when they nearly overran Farah, before Afghan troops backed by U.S. air power fought them off.
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Calls for closer ties come as Assad's government has put rebels on the back foot, shoring up its rule over the main cities in western Syria with the help of Russian air power.
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Because these wars relied on air power and cruise missiles, there was no human toll on Americans, and so remained uncontroversial with the public at large, although they enraged the anti-war left.
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The army pushed into the city this month with the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, breaking an Islamic State siege of an enclave there that had lasted three years.
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That deal largely collapsed in December when the Syrian army along with Iran-backed militias and heavy Russian air power launched a major offensive to take territory in Idlib province and surrounding areas.
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If our goal is to continue to find and destroy fundamentalist terrorist threats before they can harm us here in America, a show of naval and air power will not accomplish this purpose.
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To be sure, some national homeland vulnerabilities had arisen earlier, together with the appearance of air power and air war, but even those exposures required previous penetrations by a capable enemy air force.
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"The LCA is as good as any in the world in its class," said retired Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur now a fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi.
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"I'd get people from that part of the world to put up the troops, and I'd certainly give them air power and air support and some military support," Mr. Trump said on CNN.
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Turkey has called for measures to target hardline militants in Idlib while protecting civilians and avoiding an indiscriminate assault, likely backed by Russian air power, which it says would cause a humanitarian catastrophe.
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The administration's continuing effort to retake Mosul, the biggest Islamic State stronghold in Iraq, offers a more promising model for lasting regional influence than Mr. Putin's bludgeoning use of air power in Syria.
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The SDF, backed by U.S. air power, swept on Tuesday into a camp where hundreds of fighters had been making their last stand with thousands of civilians, many their own wives and children.
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At the same time, the government and the Americans have encouraged the training of more commando forces, who would in theory have the same mobility — backed up by air power — as the insurgents.
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One likely possibility would be that Syrian rebels of the Free Syrian Army, recently renamed the National Liberation Front, would advance on the ground backed by Turkish air power, one American official said.
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The Pentagon provides air power when needed, but generally relies on European and African partners to carry out most missions against the Islamic State, including in the areas between West Africa and Somalia.
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And then there were a few days there toward the end of the battle where air power was able to be used in support of the Marines who were fighting inside the Citadel.
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The Syrian military's struggling campaign underscores the limits of Syria's and Russia's air power and inability to achieve a definitive victory in the country's long-running civil war, now in its ninth year.
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More than 100 of them are embedded with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces involved with the Mosul offensive, advising commanders and helping them ensure coalition air power hits the right targets, officials say.
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The UAE has asked for U.S. help on medical evacuation and combat search and rescue as part of a broad request for American air power, intelligence and logistics support, the U.S. officials said.
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The fight for Tal Afar involved a constellation of Iraqi forces, including elite special forces, the Iraqi Army, federal police officers and Shiite militias with ties to Iran, backed by American air power.
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The Syrian army, with support from Russian air power, has stepped up its attacks on the northwestern province, the country's last major bastion of opposition and home to more than 3 million Syrians.
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Wolters told an air power conference in London last week that one of the "bigger mistakes" had been to label the jet with an "F" for fighter since it offered far broader capabilities.
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Complex conflict The US has little influence elsewhere in the country, and the conflict has been dominated since late 2015 by Russian air power -- which turned the tide in favor of the regime.
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Russian air power began supporting Syrian President Bashar al Assad late last year, an intervention which tipped the balance of the war in Assad's favor, eroding gains the rebels had made that year.
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In Iraq, America must urge the government to woo Sunnis and to include them in running the country; and it should use its air power, special forces and diplomats as a counterweight to Iran.
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Its lack of sea-based air power and overseas bases to provide land-based air support limits the PLAN's capacity to project power ashore by other than land-attack cruise missiles or unmanned systems.
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Nor has the Syrian army - backed by Russian air power - yet delivered a major victory that Russia can sell to the wider world as proof of its military might and growing Middle East clout.
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Iraqi forces, with the help of Shiite militias and U.S. air power, began advancing toward Falluja on May 23 in hopes of wresting control of the city from the clutches of the Islamic State.
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Turkey and Russia may have backed opposing sides in the Syrian civil war: Moscow provided air power to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey supported rebel groups seeking to oust the regime.
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In part, it absorbed the lessons of America in Iraq, relying mostly on its air power and on local proxies on the ground: the Syrian army, Iranian troops, Hizbullah fighters from Lebanon and others.
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The diplomatic dispute is an important test for the United States, which is close allies of countries on both sides and has the headquarters of its air power in the Middle East in Qatar.
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The government, backed by Russian air power and Shi'ite militias from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, has tightened its grip on eastern Aleppo this year, gradually encircling it before launching the new assault in September.
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Air power and precision-guided munitions lose some of their effectiveness in urban warfare because their targets can hide easily and have no scruples about using a densely packed civilian population as a shield.
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Only the government side has air power, and intense bombardment, including regular airstrikes, barrel bombs dropped from helicopters and suspected chlorine attacks, have left much of the eastern part of the city in ruins.
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Special Forces troops from the United States and Britain were advising the militias in Misurata in the fight against the Islamic State, and American air power was decisive in their advances against the extremists.
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It became the only holdout for government forces, backed by heavy support from American Special Forces who, with the aid of American air power, ousted the Taliban after more than two weeks of fighting.
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American and Afghan forces responded with a dramatic increase in air power since early 2017, with the number of weapons released tripling in the first two months of 2018 compared with a year earlier.
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Nicholson also acknowledged that the coalition's end of combat operations combined with a "shortfall in Afghan air power" had contributed to a lack of air support for the Afghan army's campaign against the Taliban.
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The conflict pits Assad, helped by Russian air power and Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias, against an array of mostly Sunni rebel groups, including some supported by Turkey, the United States and Gulf monarchies.
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World War II was much more defined by mobile forces, air power, amphibious assaults and other things that, while terrifying, didn't have the particular horror of being stuck in a hole surrounded by rats.
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The Syrian government, which is backed by Russian air power in its almost seven-year-long war with rebels, says it only targets militants and has repeatedly denied striking civilian facilities such as hospitals.
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To "realign" is to increase the number of U.S. and allied advisers accompanying Afghan tactical units and to increase the availability of NATO (meaning primarily American) air power in support of Afghan ground troops.
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The US-led coalition has ramped up airstrikes against the terror group's self-declared capital in Raqqa, Syria, in recent weeks, while Iraqi troops, backed by US air power, have continued their assault on Mosul.
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Bombing Syria would hurt, not help, the population; defeating Bashar al-Assad might only bring a fundamentalist Islamist regime to power; and creating some kind of "no fly" zone risks clashing with Russian air power.
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Japan's defense forces, however, want the F-3 to counter growing Chinese air power in the skies over the western Pacific and East China Sea where Tokyo and Beijing are locked in a territorial dispute.
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Five years on, as Syrian forces backed by Russian air power continue their brutal bombardment of Aleppo, images of dead children trapped beneath the rubble appear at odds with the presidency's highly curated Instagram account.
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A renewed Syrian army offensive against eastern Aleppo, supported by Russian air power, has claimed hundreds of civilian lives in recent days and prompted Western powers to accuse Assad and his backers of war crimes.
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Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air power, completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo last month, cutting off all supply lines to those areas and leaving them with only weeks worth of food.
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The United States and Russia have been at loggerheads over how to deal with the conflict -- Russia backs the Syrian regime with air power and supports its stance on considering all rebel groups as targets.
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The war pits President Bashar al-Assad, supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, against an array of mostly Sunni Muslim rebel groups, some backed by Turkey, Gulf monarchies or the United States.
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Militant snipers on top of buildings have complicated the use of ground troops and forced the military to rely on air power, Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera, the military's spokesman in Marawi, said on Thursday.
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The Syrian army has pressed ahead with a major campaign, supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power, to take full control of Syria's largest city, divided between rebel and government zones since 2012.
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They are being monitored through aerial surveillance and on-the-ground intelligence, but Libyan officials said they cannot easily be targeted without advanced air power of the kind used by the United States on Jan.
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Backed by American-led air power, Iraqi forces have regained 0003 percent of the territory the Islamic State seized in 2014, American commanders say, an increase from 40 percent at the beginning of the year.
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This huge area of Syria, roughly the size of West Virginia, was retaken by arming and training members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and sending 28503,22019 U.S. soldiers, as well as using air power.
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Syrian, Iranian and Hezbollah ground forces backed by Russian air power at first stabilized the front and then brutally expanded the regime's control ending up by seizing the country's largest city of Aleppo in December.
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The targets struck had taken part in a militant offensive last week which surrounded 29 Russian military policemen who then had to be broken out in a special operation backed by air power, he added.
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Also, the United States has shifted to a strategy in which Americans provide air power and intelligence, and train and assist local troops who then do most of the fighting and most of the dying.
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The American military has a relatively light footprint across Africa, relying on European and African partners to carry out most counterterrorism missions from the Sahel to Somalia, with the Pentagon providing air power when needed.
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The Shabab — which once controlled most of Mogadishu — have lost much of their territory in recent years, the result of attacks by African Union forces, a fitfully strengthening Somali Army and increasing American air power.
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It has pledged to use its air power to help Assad retake all the territory he has lost in Syria's eight-year-old war and has repeatedly stressed the importance of the country's territorial integrity.
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The UN has gone beyond its usual role of protecting civilians, and is using its air power to help the Congolese army drive the ADF, a rebel group with jihadist links, out of Ebola zones.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army, with support from Russian air power, has stepped up its attacks on the northwestern province, the country's last major opposition bastion and home to more than 3 million Syrians.
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The area was taken from ISIS by the SDF last September, when a rapid advance south supported by coalition air power brought much of the oil-rich countryside east of the Euphrates under SDF control.
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Delhi, which says Pakistan had a "direct hand" in the bombing, responded by sending fighter jets across the LoC, deploying air power to strike in its opponent's territory for the first time in five decades.
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Related: Turkey is attacking ISIS in northern Syria with help from US air power The Turkish government made clear that the Syrian Kurds were as much a target of the Jarablus offensive as Islamic State.
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Obama's original aim of pulling out of Afghanistan entirely has been put on hold in the face of mounting gains by Taliban militants, with U.S. air power and special forces still regularly involved in combat.
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The three countries agreed a so far ineffectual plan to wind down the fighting between the Syrian army, which is supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, and jihadist fighters and Turkish-backed rebels.
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In the absence of a more specific official policy, Motherboard asked Laslie and two other experts on US air power what they think Trump should do to make the Air Force "greater" than it already is.
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The Syrian army and allied Iran-backed Shi'ite militias, supported by Russian air power, are approaching Albu Kamal as part of their own offensive against the Islamic State enclave straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.
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In the past year the SDF, with the help of American air power, has liberated most of the country's eastern provinces from IS. The Americans and the SDF operate in an area east of the Euphrates.
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Syria's army, supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, has in recent weeks gained a string of post along the border with Jordan in southeastern Syria, a zone that is outside the ceasefire area.
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Syrian government forces backed by allied militias and Russian air power launched a major assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in September after besieging the area, which the United Nations says is home to 275,000 people.
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The hardline militants, who were routed from Palmyra when the Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air power retook the ancient city in March, have staged a comeback in the area in the past two weeks.
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The American military has for decades argued that it can achieve victory through air power, but its recent experiences in Afghanistan, not to mention the more hellish example of Vietnam, suggest this is a false promise.
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The Syrian military, supported by Iran-backed militias and Russian air power, began their offensive to take control of the whole of the divided city of Aleppo after a week-long ceasefire broke down last month.
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Rare images from inside Yemen's city of Taiz show the devastation wrought by months of fighting between Houthi forces backed by Iran and Yemeni government forces, bolstered by Saudi Arabia and its US-equipped air power.
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" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WATCH: 'The Business of War – SOFEX' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of Hippler's central ideas is that "strategic bombing"—the kind of brutal air power that flattened Coventry and Dresden—was a way of reducing a "people" into a "populace.
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Russia is one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most stalwart allies and is supporting him militarily with air power, advisers and special forces as he tries to roll back Islamic State and other militant groups.
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Russian air power, along with ground support from Iranian-backed Shia militias — including Lebanon's Hezbollah — was crucial in recapturing the critical rebel-held enclave of east Aleppo in December, a major turning point in the war.
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Benghazi served a similar role in Libya; after being defended by NATO air power, it provided a base in which opposition groups could start building a government in exile and plan operations against the Gadhafi regime.
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The Shabab — which once controlled most of the city — have lost much of their territory in recent years, the result of attacks by African Union forces, a fitfully strengthening Somali Army and increasing American air power.
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But for many Afghans, especially residents in battered Farah, the assault showed mostly that the insurgents could attack at will even against a well-entrenched government position backed up by both Afghan and American air power.
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"Japan is keen to put aside it's staunch non-proliferation principles and engage with the lucrative Indian program," said Manpreet Sethi, nuclear affairs expert at the Centre for Air Power Studies, a New Delhi think-tank.
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As one of the fanciest Roombas out there, the i7+ features iRobot's signature 3-Stage Cleaning System with Power-Lifting Suction technology for up to 10 times the air power compared to standard Roomba 600 models.
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The Trump administration's long-held desire to end the endless wars will weigh heavily on Afghan officials who know that they cannot depend forever more on US billions and air power to support their doddering constituencies.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power have launched an operation aimed at taking back the pivotal town of Saraqeb in northwest Syria from Turkey-backed rebels, a Turkish official said on Thursday.
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Officials in Helmand said that Private Kirkpatrick died during efforts by Afghan commandos, supported by American air power and Special Operations forces, to target Taliban fighters who were preparing to launch further attacks on Lashkar Gah.
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Although Afghan security forces have been fighting largely alone since the end of the main NATO-led combat mission in 2014, their performance has been patchy and they continue to rely heavily on U.S. air power.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week he did not rule out Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, launching a full-scale assault on militants in Idlib, but such an operation was impractical for now.
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The new fighter, dubbed the F-3, will serve as a key component of Japanese air power in the coming decades and could cost Asia's second biggest military as much as $20163 billion, depending on its specifications.
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Through a series of so-called "settlement" agreements and army offensives, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, has been steadily suppressing armed opposition to its rule in the capital city's suburbs.
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With the government gaining ground backed by Russian air power, international diplomacy is struggling to make headway toward an overall negotiated settlement to the war that has killed 250,000 people and forced 11 million from their homes.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish military killed 16 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in an operation backed by air power near the Iranian border and another six militants elsewhere in southeast Turkey, the armed forces said on Monday.
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The flying branch has been trying to retire its old but rugged A-10 ground-attack aircraft for years now, only to be overruled by air-power advocates in Congress who are worried about a warplane shortfall.
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Aleppo has become the most intense front in the civil war pitting President Bashar al-Assad, helped by Iran, Shi'ite militias and Russian air power, against Sunni rebels backed by Turkey, the United States and Gulf monarchies.
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Lighting toxic fires ISIS has also been setting fire to oil wells in the oil-rich region, in an attempt to blunt the effectiveness of the coalition's air power by obscuring their view of targets from above.
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The government of President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russian air power, Iranian ground forces and Shi'ite militia fighters from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, has launched a massive assault to crush the rebels' last major urban stronghold.
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The government, backed by Russian air power and fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, made significant territorial gains against rebels since the new year, focused in areas of western Syria near the borders with Turkey and Jordan.
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In making further military gains after Aleppo, Assad will continue to rely on both Moscow's air power and the ground force supplied by Iran and the Shi'ite militias it sponsors, foremost among them the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
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Syria's YPG Kurdish militia are the core of a force that has fought against Islamic State with the support of U.S. air power, arms, funds, training and an estimated 2,000 American special forces troops on the ground.
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Nabad al Hayat is one of more than 248 health care facilities bombed in Syria since April, as president Bashar al-Assad seeks to retake the last pocket of opposition with a ferocious onslaught of air power.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has recaptured most of the country from rebels since Russia joined the war on his side in 2015, deploying its air power in support of the army and allied Iran-backed militias.
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Kuwait is helping mediate the dispute as is the United States, for which it is a big test since Qatar is home to a base housing the headquarters of its Middle East air power and 11,000 troops.
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Turkey plunged into Syria with ground forces for the first time, using tanks, artillery and air power to help a force comprising United States- and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seize a border area from the Islamic State.
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Backed by Russian air power and unopposed by Assad's foreign adversaries, government forces have swept through southwestern Syria in the last month in one of the swiftest campaigns of the war, forcing surrender on massively outgunned rebels.
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Rebel groups have been on the back foot in Syria, following Russia's intervention in the war on Assad's side, bringing its air power to bear in support of his army and its Iranian and Shi'ite militia allies.
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The Iraq assault on Falluja has the support of U.S. air power, but veers from Washington's battle plan, which called for the government to focus its forces on Mosul, Islamic State's de facto Iraqi capital further north.
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Each party wants to maximize its interests and minimize the influence of its rivals by putting as few of its own soldiers at risk and instead fighting for its goals through air power, mercenaries and local rebels.
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When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2000, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only a few hundred C.I.A. and Special Operations personnel, backed by American air power.
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While their attempts to actually hold seized provincial capitals have failed — often because of intensive intervention by American air power, aided by Special Operations troops — many provincial centers remain little more than islands, surrounded by hostile countryside.
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The deployment of air power came after the Turkish Defense Ministry said that a supply convoy bringing reinforcements into the observation posts on Monday had come under fire, leaving six Turkish soldiers dead and several others wounded.
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Assad regained the upper hand in Syria's war with the help of Russian air power and Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces, retaking all main cities from rebels and militants backed variously by Western powers and Gulf Arabs.
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Russian air power has helped government troops backed on the ground by Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to advance in strategically vital areas of western Syria where fighting has largely subsided due to the truce.
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The army and its allies, backed by Russian air power, captured al-Khafsa in a recent campaign against Islamic State in the area northeast of Aleppo two months after the city's main water supply was cut off.
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"Hezbollah has gained from the experience of working with armies and managing numerous weapons systems simultaneously - air power, armored vehicles, intelligence, and drones: all specialties of conventional armies," said a commander in a regional alliance fighting in Syria.
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The coalition has also lent significant air power to back up a push by Kurdish forces in Syria as they pushed ISIS out of the town of al-Shadaadi that sits along a crucial supply route into Raqqa.
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The U.S. has been beefing up naval and air power, capable of striking Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf over the last month after the White House said it had information about possible future attacks against American interests.
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We need overwhelming air power, we need to arm the Kurds, who can be our boots on the ground, and if ground troops are necessary, then we should employ them, but it shouldn't be politicians demonstrating political toughness.
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"The Saudis have always thought that the way to get the Russians to back off is what worked in Afghanistan 30 years ago – negating their air power by giving MANPADS to the mujahideen," said a second U.S. official.
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The J-20, once in full scale production and service, will represent a significantly greater and fundamentally different threat to the Russian Su-30/35 Flanker family derivatives that currently form the leading edge of Chinese air power.
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When combined, all the various information sharing and cooperative targeting tricks come together to create a very fundamental change in how one uses air power, particularly against air defense systems, especially in the opening days of a conflict.
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Aleppo siege: Why latest developments are so significant Up to 300,000 people trapped The United Nations has warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe as regime troops backed by Russian air power tighten their grip on the ruined city.
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Nicholson has declined to comment on troop levels as he prepares his review, but U.S. military spokesman Brigadier General Charles Cleveland said asking for more flexibility, including in use of air power, was among options he was considering.
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Government forces backed by Russian air power have swept through southwestern Syria in the last month in one of the swiftest campaigns of a war estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 11 million.
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One sign of the new cooperation between Russia and Turkey is the introduction of Russian air power this week to help groups allied to Turkey rid the strategic town of Al Bab in northern Syria of ISIS fighters.
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Yet by the time Iraqi forces launched a massive ground assault to retake Mosul in October 2016, backed by Kurdish fighters, Shi'ite militias and U.S. air power, many residents had turned against the group, which exerted brutal control.
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Sejari said his delegation had briefed U.S. officials on Iran's "destructive" role in Syria, where Shi'ite Muslim militias led by Lebanon's Hezbollah have, along with Russian air power, have turned the tide of the conflict in Assad's favor.
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The Syrian soldiers we spoke to said they were confident that, backed by Russian air power, their forces could make it all the way to the Turkish border -- dealing what could be a decisive blow to the opposition.
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London (CNN)Donor countries pledged more than $10 billion for Syria at an international conference Thursday in London, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced, but a brutal Syrian government offensive, backed by Russian air power, overshadowed this goodwill.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Western-backed Syrian rebels holding a strategic swathe of the desert southeast stretching to the Iraqi border said they came under major attack from government forces and allied Iranian-backed militias backed by Russian air power.
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Government forces backed by Russian air power have swept through southwestern Syria in the last month, in one of the swiftest campaigns of a war estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 11 million.
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The ministry, in a Wednesday evening statement, said 29 Russian military policemen had been surrounded by jihadis as a result and that Russia had been forced to break them out in a special operation backed by air power.
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Russia may have turned the balance of power in Assad's favor with its use of air power, but Putin would rather Russia help shape a ceasefire than get caught in an escalating war with the potential for casualties.
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Damascus has vowed to retake every last inch of Syria to cap a string of military gains in the last two years that have recovered almost all rebel-controlled regions with the key assistance of Russian air power.
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Although most U.S. combatants have moved to safety on the opposite side of the gulf, and several Iranian boats are detected and sunk by U.S. air power, a few missiles are fired and shot down by shipboard defenses.
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In an interview published as government forces, backed by heavy Russian air power, maintained an offensive against Islamic State militants, Assad said his government "continue to be flexible" in its approach to talks aimed at ending the war.
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He added that these kinds of battles — heavy fighting in dispersed towns and small cities — were likely to keep happening well into the future, with American air power often acting as the deciding factor between victory and defeat.
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Captain Gresback, the coalition spokesman said, "As a result of our alignment of air power, we will maintain relentless pressure on the Taliban using a variety of aircraft to conduct daily strikes, including B-52s" and other aircraft.
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As Russian air power severely weakened Syria's rebel forces, Turkey was willing to temper its support for them in exchange for Russia's assent to a Turkish sphere of influence in northern Syria, where Turkey could block Kurdish expansion.
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In recent months, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army, with support from Russian air power, has stepped up its attacks on the northwestern province -- the country's last major opposition bastion and home to more than 3 million Syrians.
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There are three reasons why the attack on Ghazni matters -- whether or not the Taliban manages to retain control in the face of American air power, which normally unseats them from most places once it's fully in effect.
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Competing against the Soviet Union when air power was in flux, and deciding which new airplane would be the right one was uncertain, these companies built the F-100 through F-106 in just a few short years.
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But the Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air power, kept up air strikes in the northwestern province of Idlib, attacking the strategic city of Saraqeb which sits on an important road, the Syrian Observatory war monitor reported.
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Far away from the exercise in eastern Russia, Moscow is engaged in a real-world conflict in Syria, where its air power and limited numbers of ground troops have backed the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Iraq's Shi'ite-led government, which has assembled a 100,000-strong coalition of troops, security forces, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and mainly Shi'ite militias, backed by U.S. air power, says it will mark the end of Islamic State in Iraq.
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But the Obama administration's efforts to forge a common political and military strategy with the Kremlin on Syria collapsed after Russia supported Syrian forces and Iranian-backed fighters with its air power in the brutal retaking of Aleppo.
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Although Afghan forces still depend heavily on U.S. air power for both logistics and close combat support, the local air force has been building up its strength as more pilots and air crew qualify and more aircraft are delivered.
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Assad: Go back to Turkey, or die Russia is the most powerful sponsor of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and its air power has been a key factor in helping the government solidify its control over the city.
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Mr Putin's way of war, in Aleppo as in Grozny, makes use of indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate targeting of civilians; Russian air power might thus be used against Raqqa and other IS strongholds in ways that American aircraft cannot.
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The government must choose between stocking up on F-35s for the air force and navy, lean and hungry after years of cuts, or investing in a new generation of air power, shrouded in the fog of future war.
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This month, Afghan forces, backed by U.S. air power and close assistance from U.S. advisers, began a fresh operation dubbed Maiwand 12, to hit the Taliban in the insurgency hotspots of Marjah and Nad Ali districts of Helmand province.
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But the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), whose estimates are similar to those of AOAV, says that 62% of aerial casualties—deaths and injuries—were inflicted by the NATO-led coalition, whose air power is largely American.
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Afghan forces were backed by U.S. air power and several drone strikes were conducted overnight but the Taliban denied having been pushed back, saying fighters pulled out after achieving their objectives of creating shock and capturing weapons and equipment.
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The Syrian government will be negotiating from a strong position after its army and their allies, including Shi'ite militias supported by Iran, along with Russian air power, routed rebels in their last major urban stronghold of Aleppo this month.
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Among works to be featured is late American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Air Power" painting, estimated between 2.5 million and 3.5 million pounds, and Hirst's kaleidoscopic "Beautiful, Shattering, Slashing, Violent, Pinky, Hacking, Sphincter Painting", seen fetching 250,000–350,000 pounds.
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President Bashar al-Assad, helped by Russian air power and Iranian-backed militias, has steadily tightened his grip on the opposition-held eastern areas of Aleppo this year, achieving a long-held goal of fully encircling it this summer.
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Backed by the air power of the U.S.-led coalition, the alliance of U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces -- known as the Syrian Democratic Forces -- has been engaged in fierce clashes with the Sunni terror group in the city.
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MAKHMOUR, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis armed forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air power captured a village in Nineveh province from Islamic State on Wednesday, the first advance on the northern front since the offensive was paused three weeks ago.
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But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, supported by Iranian-backed militia and Russian air power, have since last week stepped up their offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, bombing hospitals and damaging water supplies.
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Pro-government media said the Syrian army was pressing ahead in a major campaign supported by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air power to take full control of Syria's largest city, divided between rebel and government zones since 2012.
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The start of the push on Tal Afar, which is being supported by American air power, began with the familiar stagecraft of a prime minister determined to capitalize on the military operations to present himself as an effective leader.
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These security fears grew after the Assad regime recaptured Aleppo in December 2016, supported by Russian air power and Tehran-backed forces, and due in part to Islamic State's diminishing ability to defeat pro-government troops and seize territory.
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The Syrian government, strengthened by Russian air power and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias, has been tightening its grip on rebel-held districts of Aleppo this year, and this summer achieved a long-held goal of fully encircling the area.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Days after President Trump's announcement of a new strategy for Afghanistan, the top American officials in Kabul said Thursday that a promised increase in United States military personnel and air power was already underway in the country.
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His options are to try a counteroffensive, where Russia's air power would be decisive; or do nothing, which would potentially drive a million more refugees into Turkey; or try to cut as good a deal as he can get.
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Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power have stepped up a campaign to recapture Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold where millions took refuge after fleeing other parts of Syria earlier in its nearly nine-year civil war.
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Even when he was in power, he was against the United States' use of air power on Afghan villages, but analysts say they believe the latest American bombing has given him another political pretext to mobilize against the government.
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If the army, supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, closes this gap they will encircle Islamic State fighters to their west in an area of land around 8,000 km square, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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Although billed as a potential breakthrough, the "cessation of hostilities" agreement does not take effect for a week, at a time when Assad's government is poised to win its biggest victory of the war with the backing of Russian air power.
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Despite extensive use of air power that has left many parts of the area leveled to the ground, troops and allied militias have sustained heavy losses as they encounter tough resistance from diehard militants waging a battle to the end.
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Assad vowed to pursue an offensive in Syria's vast deserts, where he is backed by Iranian-funded militias and heavy Russian air power that have allowed his troops to capture significant ground from Islamic State insurgents on several major fronts.
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American strikes have killed Islamic State "emirs" and other leaders in that region, while government ground forces, supported by American Special Operations troops and air power, have driven the group from many areas it had previously held in the province.
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The Russian Defence Ministry on Wednesday said 29 Russian military policemen had been surrounded by jihadis as a result of that attack and that Russia had been forced to break them out in a special operation backed by air power.
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Turkey, a major backer of the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad, entered the Syrian conflict in August, using its armor and air power to help Free Syrian Army rebel groups take territory near the border held by Islamic State.
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Saudi Arabia announced early Sunday it would launch an investigation into "reports about the regrettable and painful bombing" in Sanaa, without immediately acknowledging that its coalition battling rebels in Yemen is the only force with air power in the conflict.
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If Trump relaxes standards for clean air, power plants or vehicles "there would be a greater burden on cities to implement programs to fill the gaps," said Amy Petri of the office of sustainability in the Texas city of Austin.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's decision to empower the Pentagon to set troop levels in Afghanistan will increase the U.S. military's agility, giving U.S. forces greater latitude to "provide air power and other vital support," the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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But it also makes Moscow's balancing act in the eight-year-old conflict war more delicate, as it will put Syrian government troops, who are backed by Russian air power, in close proximity to the Turkish army and its proxies.
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It was Russia's intervention with air power in 2015 which helped turn the tide of Syria's civil war in Assad's favor, and Trump's decision to pull out of the northeast has cemented Moscow's central role in shaping the country's future.
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In a separate offensive, Syrian army and Iranian backed militias with Russian air power had also this month broke a years-long Islamic State siege of government-held parts of Deir al-Zor on the other side of the Euphrates river.
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In Assad's swift use of force against protesters in 2011 and his deployment of artillery and air power against Syrian towns and cities, critics see his reliance on the example of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled from 1970-2000.
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The Arab alliance intervened in the war in 2015 to restore the internationally recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi but has bogged down in military stalemate, despite superior air power, since seizing the southern port of Aden that year.
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Kuwait is helping mediate the dispute as is the United States, for which it has posed a challenging test since Qatar hosts a base housing the headquarters of U.S. air power in the Middle East as well as 11,000 troops.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he did not rule out Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, launching a full-scale assault on militants in Syria's Idlib province, but that such an operation was unpractical for now.
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The seizure of the junction, which leads to Raqqa city, Islamic State's de facto capital and also to Tabqa, another city it controls, came as part of a week-old Syrian government offensive against the jihadists, backed by Russian air power.
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Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, says that the loss of American air power has particularly hampered the Afghan army's ability to carry out attacks: units in trouble can no longer call in reinforcements or air strikes.
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China unveiled some eye-catching air power at the China Helicopter Exposition in the northern city of Tianjin on the weekend, including a model that resembled the US Sikorsky Black Hawk and a concept craft that looked like a flying saucer.
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US special operations forces teams, along with US air power, have periodically operated inside Somalia in recent years against the al-Shabaab terrorist group, which has been responsible for plotting and executing attacks targeting Westerners throughout eastern Africa and beyond.
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The F-22 and the F-35 are designed to project US air power both offensively and defensively in contested airspaces, penetrating Integrated Air Defence Systems (IADS) and engaging air and ground targets with minimum detection risk and maximum survivability.
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The cessation deal does not include jihadist groups such as Islamic State and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and Russia, which is backing the Syrian government with air power, has made clear it intends to keep bombing those groups.
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The effective encirclement of Manbij by a militia called the Syria Democratic Forces is part of an assault launched last week, backed by U.S. air power and American special forces, to seal off the last stretch of Syrian-Turkish frontier.
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Syrian Army troops backed by Russian air power and Iranian militia are advancing along the western side of the river; Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters, supported by American warplanes and Special Operations advisers, are pushing along the eastern river banks.
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Russia intervened in the Syrian conflict last September, and the added air power has reportedly turned the military balance in the war in favor of the Assad regime, which is battling both IS and an array of allied rebel groups.
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Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network think-tank told Reuters there were limits to what air power could achieve, while pointing out that the number of civilian casualties had risen, which could be used by the Taliban for propaganda.
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The death, the third American military fatality in Afghanistan this year, was a reminder that United States soldiers remain in the line of fire, although the war is now largely fought by Afghan security forces backed by American air power.
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Over the past two years, government forces supported by Russian air power and Iranian-backed ground forces have mowed down one rebel-held pocket at a time, forcing draconian surrenders and killing civilians with prolonged sieges, airstrikes and chemical weapons.
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Backed by Russian air power, government forces have advanced on Idlib at a rapid clip since last week, taking back dozens of towns and upending a region where millions have taken refuge since the start of Syria's nearly nine-year war.
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The French military has concentrated its air power, including three Mirage fighter jets, and mission headquarters here in Chad; its five Reaper reconnaissance drones in Niger; its special operations troops in Burkina Faso; and its logistics hub in Ivory Coast.
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However, Afghan military officials see U.S. air power as a vital support in the fight against the Taliban while the country's own nascent air force is still being built, and the number of air strikes has spiked sharply this year.
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Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Friday to arrange a meeting to address tensions in Syria's Idlib province, after the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in a strike by Syrian government forces, who are backed by Russian air power.
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Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air power, have launched an assault to capture the northwest Idlib region, the last remaining territory held by rebels who are backed by Turkey against President Bashar al-Assad in the nine-year conflict.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russian air power, have made rapid advances in Idlib, the last major rebel-held stronghold in Syria's nearly nine-year war, in an offensive which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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Backed by Russian air power, Syrian government forces had made a significant advance into the rebel-held northwest this week, seizing the town of Maarat al-Numan, part of an offensive to secure the main highway between Damascus and Aleppo.
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When Mr. Hussein dispatched his tanks to suppress them, a very light NATO ground force, code-named Operation Provide Comfort, was able to drive back Iraqi heavy tanks while suffering no casualties, thanks to the intimidating American air power overhead.
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Assad's forces have been backed by Russian air power and have been waging an offensive in the Idlib region in the country's northwest, the last major chunk of territory still in rebel hands after more than eight years of war.
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Assad's forces have been backed by Russian air power and have been waging an offensive in the Idlib region in the country's northwest, the last major chunk of territory still in rebel hands after more than eight years of war.
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During this phase of our hypothetical conflict, Lamrani told me, US intelligence will have information at hand designed to make sure the attacks constitute "a very very comprehensive plan," relying on air power, not just cruise missiles fired from the sea.
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It seeks not only to squeeze the group's revenue from opium — estimated at $200 million a year — but also to increase Afghan army offensives backed by American air power and to hold elections to enhance the legitimacy of the Afghan government.
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Three contenders The long Syrian war has spawned a bewildering array of factions, but there are essentially three competitors in the "race" for Raqqa: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of the main Kurdish group (the YPG) in northern Syria with several Arab groups and tribes A combination of Turkish-backed rebel groups, supported by Turkish special forces and aerial support (and sometimes Russian air power) The Syrian army backed by pro-government militia, Iranian paramilitaries and the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah (and often Russian air power) Sometimes they compete, sometimes they quietly cooperate, and just as often they ignore each other.
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It is far from clear whether an all-out attempt to storm the rebel-held area is planned soon: that would require a massive assault by the army, backed by Lebanese and Iraqi Shi'ite militias, Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Russian air power.
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But their integration marks an important moment not only for the Royal Navy, which resented gibes that it had built an aircraft-carrier with no aircraft, but also for British air power, which is celebrating the centenary year of the Royal Air Force.
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In the two years it has held Mosul, ISIS has built an elaborate network of defenses, including moats filled with oil that stretch around the outskirts of the city, ready to be set ablaze to obscure the vision of coalition air power.
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Still, he acknowledged that the Air Force was "absolutely" examining the possibility of increasing air power, including to support U.S. ground forces, following Trump's promise of a stepped-up campaign against Taliban insurgents, who have gained ground against U.S.-backed Afghan government forces.
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Opinion: China's military in bid for superpower status The country's growing air power potential has been underpinned by an ever more capable domestic aerospace industry that is gradually moving China towards self-sufficiency in terms of military aircraft research and development and production.
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The UN report underlined the risks of a new strategy, developed with U.S. advisers, which has seen a big build up in Afghan air power, with rocket-equipped helicopters and attack aircraft deployed to try to break a stalemate with the Taliban.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - In breaking a Syrian government siege on opposition-held areas of Aleppo, insurgents have set back President Bashar al-Assad's hopes of using Russian air power to reclaim a vital city and speed the end of the five-year conflict.
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READ MORE: The Crisis in Syria After the Syrian government -- with the help of Russian air power -- regained control of the key city of Aleppo last year, masses of opposition rebels were bussed to Idlib as part of a people-swap agreement.
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The carefully orchestrated campaign to recover Ramadi, which saw much closer co-ordination between troops on the ground and coalition air power than in the past, is an indication of how other battles to expel IS from Iraqi cities may be conducted.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Pressure is growing on the U.S. military to do more to help Afghan forces repel the threat posed by Taliban militants, and commanders in Washington and Kabul agree that enhanced air power may be where it can make the most difference.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. and Iraqi air power took control of two districts of eastern Mosul on Saturday after heavy fighting in which they destroyed at least 10 cars deployed by Islamic State as suicide bombs, the military said.
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The militants are dug in surrounded by civilians, effectively using them as human shields and taking advantage of the narrow streets of the Old City that restrict the movements of the Iraqi forces and limit the use of artillery and air power.
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"The pilot was a friend to us all and we send our deepest sympathy to his family and our friends at the American Air Power Museum," the organizers of the Bethpage Air Show said in a statement posted on the event's website.
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Articles on the threat posed to the F-35 program by the S-400 are a dime a dozen, with experts across the board agreeing that networking Russian systems into NATO's air defenses spells a near death sentence for allied air power.
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As long as there are airstrikes, "there's always going to be some percentage of the strikes that are going to go awry," said Robert Farley, a professor at the University of Kentucky who has written about the use of American air power.
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Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power have stepped up an offensive on rebel-held parts of the city of Aleppo in the most lethal bombardment in nearly six years of war, with conflict monitors citing attacks on hospitals and water supplies.
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Highly trained US soldiers have the advantage of the world's most advanced equipment and techniques, from night-vision devices to attack helicopters to pin point intelligence to an array of remote controlled weapons—all backed by air power and virtually unlimited resources.
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Backed by air power and special forces from a U.S.-led coalition, the SDF has pushed Islamic State from almost the entire northeastern corner of Syria, defeating it in Raqqa in 2017 and driving it to its last enclave at Baghouz last year.
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But buttressed by Russian air power, Iranian expertise and recruits that include Iran-trained Iraqi and Afghan militias and fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the Assad government has reversed the tide, steadily regaining ground it lost earlier in the war.
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Iraqi forces backed by U.S. air power secured the eastern half of the city in January and crossed the Tigris River to fight for the Western side in recent weeks, a decisive battle that would crush the fighters' sway over territory in Iraq.
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BEIRUT, April 19 (Reuters) - Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power launched a counter-attack against rebels in the northwestern province of Latakia, a rebel group and a conflict monitor reported, as violence was reported across much of the northwest on Tuesday.
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While Iran appears more attached to keeping Mr. Assad in power, it is becoming clear that without Russian air power, Iranian support is not enough to help Syrian government forces advance, despite thousands of ground troops from Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militias.
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The escalation in the use of American air power was partly due to an effort by U.S. commanders to wipe out a nascent Islamic State presence before the group can establish more of a foothold in the county, a military spokesman said.
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The police and the army units left behind, about 300 men, struggled, and were then besieged as their request for air power went unheard, said Sher Muhammad Akhundzada, a powerful senator from Helmand who lost relatives and followers among the police officers killed.
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Turkey has asked the United States to provide Patriot missiles to help it against Russian and Syrian air power, but Washington is demanding that Turkey first make inoperable the Russian S-400 missile defense system that it acquired last year from Russia.
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Senator Richard B. Russell, Democrat of Georgia, one of Johnson's closest associates and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, spoke of relying on air power and naval forces as opposed to ground forces — implying a pullback in troop commitments, not an increase.
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But even as his administration has pivoted to addressing COVID-19, the commander in chief has also dramatically escalated a real-life deployment of air power in Somalia — one that, according to locals and researchers at Amnesty International, is killing civilians with impunity.
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Two competing coalitions — backed by air power from the United States in one case and from Russia in the other — are racing to the same goal, creating a potentially volatile situation and increasing the likelihood of clashes like the one on Thursday.
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And while abandoning the Kurds was broadly criticized, the sentiment was evidently shared by many Americans as Syrian government troops, supported by Russian air power and Iranian militias, steadily routed the dizzying array of rebel and jihadist forces and their ever-shifting alliances.
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Iran's Shiite Muslim clerical rulers found common cause with Washington against the Sunni militants of ISIS, and the Iranian-backed militias sponsored by General Suleimani did much of the fighting on the ground while American jets, helicopters and drones provided air power.
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The attacks come a day after President Tayyip Erdogan warned of an imminent Turkish military offensive in Idlib, where Syrian forces backed by Russia air power have mounted an offensive to capture the rebel-held region after the country's nine-year war.
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Syrian troops backed by Russian air power have been battling since December to eliminate the last rebel strongholds in the region in a war that has killed an estimated 400,193 Syrians, displaced millions more and left much of the country in ruins.
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General Townsend acknowledged, however, that steps had been taken to speed up the process of providing air power to support Iraqi troops and their American Special Operations advisers at the leading edge of the offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State.
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"The United States should be prepared to employ air power, stand-off weapons, covert measures and enhanced support for opposition forces to break the current siege of Aleppo and frustrate Assad's attempts to consolidate control over western Syria's population centers," the report said.
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The regime, backed by Russian air power, has decimated much of eastern Aleppo with aerial bombardments in recent months, and analysts have said the intensified air raids are a sign the regime may be planning a ground offensive to wrest control of the area.
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The fledgling Afghan Air Force (AAF) is a bright spot in a 16-year-old war against Taliban insurgents that American commanders say is at a stalemate, and any future U.S. plans to aid the Afghan military will almost certainly involve strengthening its air power.
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US-supplied air power For decades, the US worked to ensure that Saudi Arabia had air supremacy in the region, largely through its purchases of American military aircraft, precisely so that it wouldn't seek to go around the US to upgrade its missile capabilities.
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The Manbij Military Council has safe-guarded the town following the defeat of ISIS there in August by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a mix of Arab and Kurdish fighters that are backed by US and coalition air power and make up part of the council.
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But making that happen at exactly the climax of the national anthem is a pretty complex logistical challenge, particularly when the formation has three generations of air power flying together: an F-16, two A-10 "Warthogs," and a World War II-era P-51.
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Aleppo fighting Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power have stepped up an offensive on rebel-held parts of the city of Aleppo in the most lethal bombardment in nearly six years of war, with conflict monitors citing attacks on hospitals and water supplies.
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A new Turkish incursion, with artillery, tanks and air power backing a ground force of American- and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, has increased the fighting as it seizes new territory from ISIS and as the new force clashes with Kurdish-led militias also fighting ISIS.
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Opposition forces say Dumair airport had been used in the military campaign to regain eastern Ghouta, a rebel enclave on the outskirts of Damascus that the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, completely retook in the last few days after a relentless bombing offensive.
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Related: Turkey is attacking ISIS in northern Syria with help from US air power The US Department of Defense was quick to distance itself Monday morning from the fighting and Turkish airstrikes, which at least one independent monitor said on Sunday killed 40 civilians.
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Mr. Obama's strategy — rely on local partners on the ground, use American air power when necessary to defend American interests and celebrate a return of American troops for the holidays — sounds a lot like discussions inside Mr. Trump's White House over the past several days.
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Richard E. Cole, who was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot in the lead plane of a storied mission in the history of American air power, the bombing raid on Japan in retaliation for its attack on Pearl Harbor months earlier, died on Tuesday in San Antonio.
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Before the ceasefire went into effect, the Syrian government, backed by Russian air power and fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, made significant territorial gains against rebels since the new year, focused in areas of western Syria near the borders with Turkey and Jordan.
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Indeed, the Yemeni forces, backed by advisers and air power from the United Arab Emirates and the United States, had deliberately left an escape route for the outnumbered Qaeda fighters to flee, allowing the Yemenis to seize this strategically important town without taking casualties.
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Backed by heavy Russian air power, Syrian government forces have stepped up a campaign to retake the last rebel stronghold in the northwestern regions of Aleppo and Idlib, sparking an exodus of nearly a million people toward a shrinking pocket along the Turkish frontier.
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For now, rather than celebrate peace or bemoan a sellout, it is probably better to focus on the immediately essential issues — will the U.S. keep exerting pressure through its troops and air power, and will the two sides find the will for a real peace?
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But Turkish backing has often been outweighed by air power from the United Arab Emirates in support of Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), and by a technological and frontline edge provided by Russian military contractors since September, officials, diplomats and analysts say.
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"Dragons have been employed, both on the show and historically in the universe of [Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels], much more like conventional air power," Horowitz told me when I called him up to further discuss how dragons function in the narrative.
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But a far more formidable lineup was outspoken against an American commitment, including Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Tom Donilon, the national security adviser; and Mr. Gates, the defense secretary, who did not want to divert American air power or attention away from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government troops backed by Russian air power moved to within 25 km (15 miles) of an Islamic State-held town in Raqqa province on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as state media reported air strikes against the jihadists in the area.
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Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the city of Aleppo and its environs in recent days as the Syrian military, backed by the punishing air power of Russian jets, made an aggressive push into a region of the country that long ago fell from government control.
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SDF forces had advanced to within 1 km (half a mile) of the Islamic State-held Euphrates Dam to the west of Raqqa, but have yet to capture it, Silo said, adding that air power could not be used there in case the dam was damaged.
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FSA factions said in a separate statement that they would abandon the truce deal if Russia, whose air power has helped President Bashar al-Assad to turn the tide of the war, did not use its influence to halt the Wadi Barada attacks by 8 p.m.
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The problem is that Russia, since the intervention four months ago that has seen its air power transform the military situation in the regime's favour, has taken an expansive view of "terrorists", mercilessly bombing more mainstream rebel groups supported by Turkey, Arab states and the West.
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ABOARD USS RONALD REAGAN, Sea of Japan (Reuters) - The USS Ronald Reagan, a 33,000-ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier, patrolled in waters east of the Korean peninsula on Thursday, in a show of sea and air power designed to warn off North Korea from any military action.
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Chaos in northern Syria Northern Syria has been the scene of intense fighting recently, with Syrian regime forces, backed by Russian air power, pursuing a major offensive on the key city Aleppo, and Turkey bombarding Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, near Azaz over the weekend.
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The United States, which has led a coalition targeting the Islamic State with airstrikes for almost two years in Iraq, has supported the battle for Falluja with air power, even as it has raised concerns about the role of Shiite militias backed by Iran in the fight.
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But this is about as accurate as saying Washington owes the Syrian Kurds foreign protection when in fact it is the Kurds who should be thanking the United States for using air power to roll back a group that posed an existential threat to their community.
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Mr. Bowie also owned pieces by major international figures: Duchamp's sculpture "A Bruit Secret," two Hirst "spin" paintings and Basquiat's "Air Power" will be on sale, as will 120 items of 20th-century furniture and sculpture, including a 1960s stereo cabinet by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.
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The Russians actually entered Syria extensively after the CIA had provided the rebel forces, which are mostly run by Jihadi elements, provided them with advanced antitank missiles which were stymieing the Syrian Army at which point the Russians came in with air power and overwhelmed the opposition.
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And even though the odds of that happening are low — it would be an act of suicide by the North Korean dynasty — President Trump is ready to spend billions on antimissile systems, warships, cyberdefenses, air power and war games to defuse and deter this North Korean threat.
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With the Taliban deeply entrenched in Afghan villages, and often no clear front line to the war, civilian casualties have become a recurring issue as the American-led coalition deploys more air power to help support Afghan forces trying to regain territory lost to the Taliban.
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In the last year that he has led the Afghan mission, American troops have focused on seeking out leadership for Afghan forces who can better carry the burden of the war, while the United States can focus its resources in backing them up with air power.
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The relatively quick victory in Tal Afar, after an 11-day battle by Iraqi forces backed by American air power, comes on the heels of the grueling and bloody nine-month fight for Mosul, the largest Iraqi city the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ever controlled.
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A buildup of U.S. naval, infantry, and air power in the region is serious enough for a while, but a war weary American public is going to demand solid evidence that this president has explored as many non-military options as possible before supporting an actual attack.
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Matthew Page, a consultant who until recently was the State Department's top expert on Nigeria, criticized the use of air power against militants whose main tactic in recent weeks has been sending one or two suicide bombers at a time in attacks on crowded markets or mosques.
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Though the deal largely collapsed in December when the Syrian army, along with Iran-backed militias and heavy Russian air power, launched a big offensive to take territory in Idlib province and surrounding areas, the Turkish army said it had so far established six observation posts in the region.
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Long-standing tensions between Fateh al-Sham and more moderate rebels, a number of them backed by Turkey and other states that have opposed Assad, have surfaced again since government forces helped by Russian air power and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias drove the rebels out of Aleppo last month.
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Even without U.S. ground forces, which by the way we have considered unilaterally withdrawing on occasion over the years, the most timely and effective contribution America could make to South Korea's defense is air power which could be called in quickly from U.S. bases elsewhere in the region.
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Its backers say that if successful, the formal club of 23 members will give the European Union a more coherent role in tackling international crises and end the kind of shortcomings seen in Libya in 2011, when European allies relied on the United States for air power and munitions.
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The U.S. and South Korea ended annual joint military exercises with a display of air power — B-23B supersonic bombers, F-35 stealth fighter jets and F-15 fighter jets — and live-fire bombing exercises that came just two days after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan.
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At the lower ranks, Marines and soldiers were fighting small, brutal and frustrating actions, protected from being overrun by air power while losing lives and legs on ground, like the Korengal Valley, that the Pentagon did not intend to keep and had few viable proxies to pass off to.
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An analyst with independent think tank Air Power Australia, which had long been critical of the F-235, told an Australian Senate committee earlier this year that the plane was a "jackass of all trades and masterful of none," and compared the entire procurement process to a Ponzi scheme.
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Turkish tanks and special forces rolled into Jarablus earlier this week, backed by US air power and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, to expel Islamic State militants from Jarablus — a strategic border town — and to stop Kurdish militias from taking the town and moving further west along the Turkish border.
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When taken together with strong political backing in developing the ancillary capabilities and infrastructure to support this growth, the PLAAF looks poised to effect a step-change in its ability to conduct the full spectrum of operations at home as well as projecting reconnaissance and strategic air power into the region.
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In the latest sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Washington, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the U.S.-led coalition had sharply reduced its air strikes in Iraq in September when Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, had started to retake Deir al-Zor Province.
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Among the works with wide international appeal, a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, "Air Power," from the collection of Mr. Bowie — who played Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel's 1996 movie "Basquiat" — sold for £7.1 million with fees, or about $8.8 million, against a low estimate of £0003 million, or $3.3 million.
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Related: Turkey is attacking ISIS in northern Syria with help from US air power The US military called for an end to clashes between Turkey, Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters as the NATO ally pushed deeper into Syria, bringing the diverging priorities of the various American allies into stark relief.
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In the latest sign of rising tensions between Moscow and Washington, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that the U.S.-led coalition had sharply reduced its air strikes in Iraq in September when Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, had started to retake Deir al-Zor Province.
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"The exchange of traps and catapults of a French Rafale on Ike and a US Super Hornet on CDG [Charles de Gaulle] not only displayed the versatility of each country's naval air power, but was a striking visual of comradery in arms of two great powers at sea," said Capt.
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The United Nations says Islamic State is stockpiling ammonia and sulfur in civilian areas and fears it intends to carry out more chemical attacks as Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. air power, battle the jihadists in an effort to drive them out of Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq.
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Once-fractious opposition groups, cut down on the battlefield by the combined muscle of Russian air power, Iranian militias and the Syrian military, arrived in Geneva with a unified platform after issuing a communiqué that said Mr. Assad had to give up power at the start of any political transition.
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