Sentences with phrase «air campaign»

These two markets make this district one of the most expensive in the country to air campaign ads.

The US - led coalition's air campaign against ISIS has attracted intense scrutiny for the number of civilian casualties it is believed to have caused.

The most observable example of transatlantic tensions in the field of security was perhaps the valedictory speech of Defence Secretary Robert Gates given in Brussels at the midst of the Libyan air campaign in June 2011.

And the Prime Minister has offered no serious assessment of the impact of an intensified air campaign on civilian casualties in Isil - held Syrian territory or the wider Syrian refugee crisis.

Its modular steel spaceframe chassis mirrors the structures of Hurricanes and Spitfires flown by Polish pilots during the allied air campaigns of World War II.

It's why the logic of an extended air campaign is mission creep and western boots on the ground — whatever the Prime Minister may say now....

«Even in the business community, there are a lot of companies that support moving ahead with carbon standards,» said Peter Altman, director of the NRDC's climate and clean air campaign.

What did you learn in helping plan the Libyan air campaign?

It was only last week that de Blasio started airing a campaign ad featuring his 15 - year - old son.

Destroying those batteries would require a significant air campaign, and in the meantime, North Korean artillery would be firing at the South.

The pattern of operations in 2017 in what the Obama administration used to call areas «outside of active hostilities» (or active war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria) indicated that the US will continue the reinvigorated air campaign in these theaters in the coming years.

Strikes in Somalia in 2017 outnumber the combined strikes of the entire previous air campaign, which began in 2007.

It's time to develop a comprehensive air campaign, arm and support the Kurdish Peshmerga and organize and motivate the Iraqi army.

A source familiar with the company's thinking says a full - scale air campaign has not yet been ruled out, and Uber is willing to do «whatever it takes» to get the green light from Albany to expand.

The Kosovo air campaign in 1999 and the recent air operations in Libya involved NATO in air combat.

Secondly, while the notion of «surgical» air strikes, and «precision - guided» weaponry lends itself to the impression that air campaigns carry minimal risks to civilians on the ground, this is clearly not the case.

«The only ground forces able to take advantage of a successful anti-Isil air campaign are much stronger jihadist and Salafist groups close to Isil - controlled areas.

Fox and other Tory MPs have picked up on Corbyn's apparent reluctance to answer whether he's in favour of the UK's existing air campaign against Isis in Iraq.

He even claimed a 70,000 - strong force of moderate FSA fighters was ready to coordinate action against Isil with the western air campaign.

Coffey points to the fact that he's maintained an office in Buffalo for months; he's also airing his campaign ads statewide and is pushing for longer hours at upstate polling places.

He is in charge of the national group's Healthy Air Campaign, which advocates for clean air protections.

The study, published in the International Journal of Climatology, highlights these observations and other historical data, weather reports and flight logs of Allied air campaigns between 1943 and 1945.

Combining a broad experience of all aspects of aerial warfare with a deep respect for and knowledge of Arab culture, Horner commanded the U.S. and allied air assets during Desert Shield and Desert Storm — the forces of a dozen nations — and was responsible for the design and execution of one of the most devastating air campaigns in history.

But the erosion of democracy under Vladimir Putin, Russia's territorial grab in Ukraine, and the Kremlin's posting of military forces and launch of a muscular air campaign in Syria have changed the political dynamic.

In Dogfight 1942 players climb into the cockpit and into the shoes of one of four pilots taking on Axis powers during four different air campaigns.

Hence, the Hot Air campaign you linked to has a «get off our backs already» theme that includes the line «The Biofuels Disaster Must End — Another failed energy policy, courtesy of the Washington central planners.».

It is supported by a broad range of organizations including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which reinforce the on - air campaign with on - the - ground promotions conducted with health centers and community organizations across the nation.

This is why the logic of an extended air campaign is mission creep and western boots on the ground — whatever the Prime Minister may say now about keeping British combat troops out of the way — are a real possibility.

The city's gardening and clean air campaign will hopefully also include relocating 200 factories with major pollution issues as well as restricting office buildings, apartments, hotels, and shopping malls in the metropolitan centre.

«It's no secret that the general strategy here is for the allied air campaign to degrade ISIL's capabilities, their infrastructure, their weaponry, their weapons stocks, basically to put them on the defensive so at some point when Iraqi security forces are able to launch a counter-offensive,» he said.

As evidence of this coordination, Haaretz notes that Russian planes have penetrated Israeli airspace during Russia's air campaign in Syria — by a full mile, in one instance — but there have been no dangerous confrontations as a result.

US forces in Afghanistan are deploying a squadron of A-10 «Warthog» ground attack aircraft, the US military said on Tuesday, intensifying an air campaign that saw attacks more than triple in 2017 over the previous year.

It's a specialized team meant to develop an air campaign plan to Italy.

We wrote the air campaign plan during that period.

The Air Force has been conducting ongoing missions over Iraq and Syria, where US aircraft have led the air campaign against ISIS — though those operations have decreased considerably in recent weeks.

Concerns about the air campaign were also piqued by reports the coalition had loosened its rules of engagement, allowing US and other coalition personnel on the ground to move closer to the front line and call in strikes and artillery fire directly, rather than going «through a whole bureaucracy and through Baghdad,» one embedded US adviser told the Associated Press at the time.

More recently, de Gaulle was involved in France's contribution to the air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, codenamed Opération Chammal in France.

Truman was involved in the air campaign against ISIS in 2015.

Ankara launched a massive ground and air campaign, codenamed «Olive Branch,» against the US - backed SDF forces in Afrin on January 20 in response to the US's announcement that it would train and maintain a 30,000 - strong, predominately Kurdish force in the region.

The air campaign — which would dwarf the «shock and awe» of the Iraq War in size and scope — would be designed to decimate North Korea's ground forces and destroy the thousands of artillery pieces trained on the South Korean capital before they could be used to level Seoul.

The growing rhetoric about Iran — including talk from certain Israeli and American corners about an air campaign against Iran — had already begun to intensify in anticipation of the report, which will say more explicitly than previous IAEA assessments that Iran is indeed actively pursuing a nuclear weaponization program.

However, as indicated above, it is simply too early to assess the effectiveness of the air campaign in this regard.

It was precisely with the impact of the air campaign on civilians in mind that the Arab League reversed its initial endorsement of the no - fly zone.

One could of course make the argument that limited civilian casualties would be tolerable (assuming adherence to the principles of discrimination and proportionality) to the extent that the air campaign proves successful in forestalling widespread and systematic attacks on civilians.

There may be similar questions about how air strikes have been affecting non-combatants in IS occupied territory, but I wish to consider the air campaign from a different angle.

If the air campaign against IS is just, then it must be proportional and it must take due care to minimise the risk of killing innocent civilians.

The problem is that, according to Michael Fallon, the air campaign may take years to degrade and destroy IS.

The air campaign may prevent IS attacks in the West by destroying their operational capacity, especially when coupled with preventing western jihadists from returning home.

The air campaign may minimise the risk to our servicemen and women, but it may do so at the cost of civilian lives.