Sentences with phrase «of air war»

Elections consist of an air war and a ground war.

«There is a certain amount of air war going on about the consequences and obviously the BBC will paint this bleak picture which I don't think is justified.

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 II.

Yet the scale of the air war has gone far beyond the UN authorization, as did the continuing escalation of the war aims so that by February 15 Pentagon projections were assuming the demand for unconditional surrender rather than withdrawal, and by February 25 flanking actions were undertaken to prevent withdrawal.

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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.

Essentially small aircraft carriers that can carry troops, the ships are capable of waging war on land, air, and sea.

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.

Most of us don't think of Air Canada as a singing - and - dancing kind of brand, and the musical workers didn't look like the same angry people whose unions seem endlessly at war with the airline.

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.

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.

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.

Besides serving as your eyes and ears (and resembling the lower half of BB - 8, everyone's new favorite Star Wars droid), SensorSphere can monitor your home's temperature, humidity, and internal air quality from wherever you are.

On the other hand, such strikes, he said, also act as a deterrent to Hezbollah, whose missile capabilities could mean that the air force and the rest of the Israeli military will fight any future Lebanon war with their own bases under attack.

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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.

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.

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

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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.

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.

The sweep and urgency of the statements from both sides of the Atlantic called to mind a computer - age version of a Cold War air raid drill, but asking citizens to upgrade their passwords rather than duck and cover.

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.

WestJet charges between $ 20 and $ 23 for a second bag on most routes, while Air Canada charges economy - class flyers $ 20 for a second bag within Canada and $ 25 for a single piece of checked luggage on flights to the U.S. Not surprisingly, the aisles of many flights now resemble a war zone as frantic passengers search for an overhead bin into which they stuff their bulging carry - ons, slowing down boarding times.

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.

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Mid-month, the USTR is holding a hearing for the public airing of views about the Section 301 remedies, where it will be impressed upon the administration how costly a trade war would be.

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 mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

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.

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Archbishop John R. Roach, speaking on behalf of the bishops conference, held out the prospect of an indiscriminate air war, a conflagration that would spread to the entire Middle East, and a result that might leave «the people of Kuwait, the Middle East, and the world» worse off than if force had not been used.

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.

Such hopes gathered momentum from the pacifist reaction to World War I and from the new technology of strategic air bombardment.

Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war, nuclear weapons threats, conventional weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.

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.

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.