Sentences with phrase «air war in»

The B - 1B, in maintenance depot since it left the Operation Inherent Resolve air war in early 2016, was replaced last April by B - 52 Stratofortresses at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

Not exact matches

The attacks in rapid succession were a grim reminder of the strength of both the Taliban and Islamic State's emerging Afghanistan branch to wreak violence despite stepped up U.S. air attacks under Trump's new policy for the 16 - year - old war.

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

Older U.S. Air Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics shAir Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics shair war against the Islamic State, statistics show.

Meanwhile, Haley adds, the U.S. air force is now voicing a need for long - range bombers aimed at «small wars in the region.»

But he was mired in the Iraq war, and had few options beyond air strikes or another full - scale war in the Middle East, which Israel was pushing for.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

One more thing... A MacBook Air that never connected to the Internet and was kept in a safe was home to the Star Wars: The Last Jedi script, the film's director Rian Johnson said this week.

That's why these small guided missiles have become the RAF weapons of choice since the Air War over Libya back in 2011.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurWar I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futurwar), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking in 1971 the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam war, in the early 1960s was an adviser to the Air Force and White House on nuclear policy.

JERUSALEM (Reuters)- Israel would use all its strength from the start in any new war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the chief of the Israeli air force said on Wednesday, sending a firm warning a decade after their last conflict.

At the annual Herzliya security conference near Tel Aviv, Major - General Amir Eshel said qualitative and quantitative improvements in the air force since the 2006 Lebanon war meant it could carry out in just two or three days the same number of bombings it mounted in those 34 days of fighting.

Although Israel has kept to the sidelines of the war in Syria, Israeli aircraft have targeted suspected Iranian arms shipments to Hezbollah, operations complicated by Russian and U.S. air activity in the region.

Israel is suspected of carrying out a silent but lethal air war against Iranian - aligned militias in Syria, though Israel seldom comments on whether it took part in specific strikes, and if it does, it's always after the fact.

With the reinvigorated effort, the Air Force — already facing its own strains — may also see expanded involvement in America's longest war.

US F - 16s have led the three - year air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, flying 15 % of the sorties.

US bases around the Middle East have been supporting the campaign against Taliban and ISIS militants in Afghanistan, and the number of US Air Force personnel on the ground there is relatively small compared to the scope of the US commitment to the war in Afghanistan.

Dubbed Warthog, Hog or just Hawg, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the «airplane built around the GAU - 8 Avenger 30 - mm hydraulically driven seven - barrel Gatling - type cannon» to fight the Soviet tanks in the European battlefields during the Cold War, is considered one of the most durable and lethal combat plane in the CAS (Close Air Support) mission.

As the country prepares to be led for the first time in almost 60 years by someone not named Castro, a tectonic shift that could profoundly affect how it is governed, cold war rhetoric has again filled the air.

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.

The two nations have been backing opposite sides in the country's civil war, and Russian and US jets have previously come close to having confrontations in the air.

In winning a bidding war against JetBlue for buying Virgin America, Alaska Air receives the domestic airline with the highest...

President Moon Jae - in met with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone in an event that was aired around the world last Friday, when the two leaders agreed to formally end the 68 - year - old Korean War and to work toward the «complete denuclearization» of the peninsula.

Missile strikes on Syrian government bases overnight killed dozens of pro-regime forces, raising the risks of a wider regional war just weeks after Israel was blamed for hitting an air station in the country used by Iranian elite forces.

Stifel analyst Joseph DeNardi argued in a research note that if Sprint (S) and T - Mobile (TMUS) merger gets a green light from the Trump administration, there would likely be a «bidding war» unseen before in the airline industry as the «Big 4» would have significant interest in acquiring Alaska Air (ALK) or JetBlue (JBLU) if they think they could.

However, DeNardi pointed out that if the «Big 4» airlines, namely Delta Air Lines (DAL), Southwest (LUV), American Airlines (AAL) and United Continental (UAL), were to believe that they could receive approval in the acquisition of certain smaller airlines, there would be bidding wars for both Alaska and JetBlue.

The company already announced that Star Wars and Marvel content would indeed be a part of the streaming service (that is what was still up in the air when I wrote Disney's Choice), but the company is absolutely right to not stop there: being a true Netflix competitor means having more content, not less — and that content doesn't necessarily have to be fresh!

With winter fading into the distance, Avengers: Infinity War now in theaters, and the truth about Amazon's logo finally out in the open, we can take a big breath of fresh air and remember what makes us excited about life in the first place.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP)-- The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed Wednesday, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.

In a broader war, he says, it is possible that the interceptors could be used to protect emergency stores, sensitive installations and air force bases to allow them to carry on fighting even under rocket attack.

In the midst of Cold War tensions, Soviet fighter jets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 passengers aboard.

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There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail.

More than all the remnants of hatred lingering between nations, this terror of inevitable war, which sees no cure for warfare except in even greater terror, is responsible for poisoning the air we breathe.

I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq.

The idea of making discriminations in combat, so central to Western just - war thought, was jettisoned completely in the style of air war fought in World War war thought, was jettisoned completely in the style of air war fought in World War war fought in World War War II.

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

What I've also learnt is having served in the Air Force, with my conduct being desribed as exemplary and service honourable, nevertheless, the same conduct that would be considered as such in war is not always appropriate in civilian environments.

Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

During the Great War a group of American naval aviators were stationed on a barren island off the northwest coast of France where, amid lonely and desolate conditions, they carried on their hazardous scouting in the air.

He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.

I server in the Royal Air Force in the first gulf war.

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.

She argued that the opposite seemed to be happening in Iraq, particularly in the air war.

August 2011 — The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD — a theory long - taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).

A crucifix is among memorials dedicated to airmen in the First and Second World Wars that have been given heritage protection to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force.