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The Philadelphia Tribune
April 24, 2018
AGADEZ, Niger — On the scorching edge of the Sahara Desert, the U.S. Air Force is building a base for armed drones, the newest front in America's battle ... “We are afraid of falling back into the same situation as in Afghanistan, with many mistakes made by American soldiers who did not always know theÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
April 24, 2018
Already the U.S. military presence here is the second largest in Africa behind the sole permanent U.S. base on the continent, in the tiny Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. ... "The presence of foreign bases in general and American in particular is a serious surrender of our sovereignty and a serious attack on the morale of theÃâà...
New York Times
April 22, 2018
Taken together, these parallel missions reflect a largely undeclared American military buildup outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, often with ... “The base, and the more frequent flights that its opening will allow, will give us far more situational awareness and intelligence on a region that has beenÃâà...
The Detroit News
April 22, 2018
It makes lighting systems for military bases and has given price quotes for the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, the U.S. Naval Base in Guam, and airports in Saudi Arabia and Bermuda. Quotes on birthing suite lighting have been given to hospitals in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Dubai, Brownell said.
The Killeen Daily Herald
April 18, 2018
Perna said in the last 15 years, the U.S. Army has been focused on the near-term problems of sustaining forward operating bases in Afghanistan and Iraq where up to 90 days of supplies like food, water, ammunition etc. were accumulated. “When I was younger, our focus was on a peer competitor and itÃâà...
Clarksville Now
April 18, 2018
Leopoldo Quintas, 3rd Inf. Div. commander, will serve as both the Resolute Support deputy chief of staff for operations and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan deputy ... Poppas expressed his supreme confidence in his staff's ability to carry out their new mission and enable the Afghan National Defense SecurityÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
April 17, 2018
During January and February, several reports surfaced of a new Chinese military base in Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. According to Afghan officials, China and Kabul discuss building a base in Badakhshan and China will send an expert delegation to Kabul to determine the exact site, and will fund theÃâà...
Valdai Discussion Club
April 17, 2018
At $5.7 billion in 2016-17 for US forces in Afghanistan, around $4 billion a year in support for the Afghan security forces, and a similar sum in aid for the ... Taliban bases on the Pakistani side of the border, but Pakistan has no motive whatsoever to start another conflict on its soil and repeated US attempts toÃâà...
New York Times
April 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials said on Saturday that American-led strikes against Syria had taken out the “heart” of President Bashar ... Videos from Damascus showed Syrian air defense missiles launching into a dark night sky, and the Russian military said that at one Syrian air base,Ãâà...
People's World
April 10, 2018
From Hawai'i, Guam, and its Naval bases in Asian ports, the U.S. launched the Philippine-American War, slaughtering 1.4 million Filipinos. From its ... The U.S. cut ties with Iran after the Iranian revolution in 1979, and funded religious guerillas in Afghanistan, luring the Soviet Union into “the Afghan trap.”.
Lexology
April 5, 2018
Companies providing services on U.S. military bases overseas are probably familiar with the Defense Base Act (DBA), a comprehensive federal workers' compensation ... This hypothetical scenario is easily found in Afghanistan, where many Afghan citizens work for U.S. contractors at remote military bases.
New York Times
April 1, 2018
For years, American commanders have been reluctant to give night-vision equipment to rank-and-file Afghan soldiers and police officers out of concern of ... In one case last November, Taliban fighters wearing night-vision goggles attacked a police outpost in Farah Province, in western Afghanistan. By theÃâà...
TRT World
March 30, 2018
Reports about the US army closing two air bases which are crucial for its operations in the region, Incirlik military air base in Turkey and Al Udeid .... According to the agreement, NATO was to use the base for its missions and operations in the region, including the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.
WIRED
March 27, 2018
Many military bases put machines of might on the front porch—tanks or helos or jumbo artillery guns—but the dishes fit Fort Gordon just fine. They're subtle. They're quiet. Inside the gates it's more of the same. Fort Gordon sits in a soft Georgian basin, the traditional home of the US Army Signal Corps.
UConn Daily Campus
March 27, 2018
According a story by CNN, a U.S. Army veteran has been deported back to Mexico as told in a statement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The veteran, Michael Perez, served two tours in Afghanistan in the early 2000s before receiving a general discharge for smoking marijuana on base.
Center for Research on Globalization
March 27, 2018
The reader could be forgiven if he felt that a US military base was rather unnecessary in, say, Djibouti or the Bahamas, yet the US Congress will not allow the closure of any military bases. (The Bi-partisan Budget Act of 2013 blocked future military base closings under the argument that they're all essentialÃâà...
The Times
March 12, 2018
Israeli military intelligence and satellite technology have identified at least ten Iranian military bases in Syria as the threat of war between the two rises. ... “I have a message for you today, it's a very simple one,” Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, told the influential lobby group American IsraelÃâà...
Voice of America
March 12, 2018
We see more and more violence in Pakistan, more and more violence in Afghanistan, taking a sectarian flavor," Zarif said. Washington denies the allegations as "mere rumors" and cites its relentless airstrikes in support of Afghan forces against IS bases in eastern Nangarhar province, where Haska MeynaÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 6, 2018
Base talk in Kyrgyzstan usually draws attention given the Russian presence in Kant and, up to June 2014 at least, the U.S.-operated transit center at Manas. ... period, Kyrgyzstan had the interesting accolade of being the only country in the world to simultaneously host Russian and American military bases.
The Columbus Dispatch
March 5, 2018
Neutzling was deployed to Camp Bucca in southern Iraq — one of hundreds of U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq where trash was burned in open pits ... He worked in a trailer parked about 15 yards from the base's square-shaped burn pit, whose size he estimated at 50 to 60 yards across and 8 to 10 feetÃâà...
Sonoran News
March 4, 2018
It is soft power with an underlying hard power, military component, the so-called “String of Pearls” bases and facilities. ... Instead, the U.S. should be moving toward a policy that shifts the burden of Afghanistan stability to the regional players who have thwarted our efforts there and adopt a strategy thatÃâà...
Aerotech News (blog)
March 2, 2018
The general discussed those enhancements Wednesday during an Association of the U.S. Army-sponsored forum on the Army's air and missile defense capabilities. Last year, the Missile Defense Agency successfully demonstrated a ground-based, mid-course defense, intercepting an IntercontinentalÃâà...
CNBC
March 1, 2018
In response to Beijing's overseas military base in Djibouti, New Delhi has sought to access facilities in the Seychelles, Oman and Singapore. ... The $85 million Chabahar project, located only about 350 kilometers from Gwadar, is aimed at creating a transit route between India, Iran and Afghanistan.
Atlantic Council (blog)
March 1, 2018
With US forces drawn down to about 14,000 troops, most of them concentrated on larger bases, the Taliban fight is mostly between it and Afghan forces ... The Islamic State in Afghanistan has made Nangarhar Province its base of operations, an area once occupied by the Taliban and al Qaeda forces loyalÃâà...
Long War Journal
February 28, 2018
A Taliban media operative films a nighttime assault on an Afghan base in Khakrez, Khandahar province. Footage is filmed through a night ... The US military recently admitted that the Taliban controls 14 percent of Afghanistan's 401 districts and contests another 30 percent. FDD's Long War Journal hasÃâà...
Slate Magazine
February 22, 2018
On base, military police carry weapons just like civilian police officers do, but they are the exception. When deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and on large bases there, most service members carry unloaded weapons, as a safety precaution to make sure they don't accidentally shoot their buddies.
Defense One
February 20, 2018
As fungible as the base/OCO distinction has become in recent years, OCO still remains the baseline for keeping track of what the U.S. has spent fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and elsewhere the last 16 and a half years. Any significant change to OCO would affect the government's and independentÃâà...
Air Force Link
February 13, 2018
Soldiers with Bravo Company, 244th Military Intelligence Battalion, Flight Detachment 16, board a C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, in Iraq Jan. 25, 2018. The C-17 transported troops and equipment to forward operating locations throughout the U.S. CentralÃâà...
Voice of America
February 8, 2018
“The U.S. strikes support Afghanistan in reassuring its neighbors that it is not a safe sanctuary for terrorists who want to carry out cross border operations,” the military said Thursday. Russia has lately also increased contacts with Taliban insurgents in a bid to contain spread of IS, particularly to AfghanÃâà...
Department of Defense
February 8, 2018
The aircraft, a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron based here, had its belly full of shipping containers and pallets of equipment belonging to the U.S. Army's Bravo Company, 244th Military Intelligence Battalion. The load was moving from Iraq to Afghanistan in supportÃâà...
KTUU.com
February 6, 2018
Operation Afghanistan: Discovering Tactical Base Gamberi's local tailor ... TACTICAL BASE GAMBERI, Afghanistan (KTUU) - At some of the larger U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, a Middle Eastern-style market, called a bazaar, is set up and run ... You can even have a suit handmade by an Afghan tailor.
TOLOnews
February 5, 2018
The US military is redeploying its troops from an American-led coalition base in Iraq to Afghanistan following the defeat of Deash in the country, Fox News ... The US Army is also floating plans to increase the total US force in the country by 1,000 in a bid to boost Afghan forces' fight against the Taliban, theÃâà...
Business Insider
January 31, 2018
The Al Udeid Air Base was built in 1996, and the US military moved its operations there in 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq. The base is now the home of the US Air Force Central Command, and has proven essential for American air operations in the region. "Qatar is strategically placed. AfghanistanÃâà...
WIRED
January 30, 2018
After fitness data service Strava revealed bases and patrol routes with an online "heat map," the US military is reexamining its security policies for the social ... Over the weekend, researchers and journalists raised the alarm about how anyone can identify secretive military bases and patrol routes based onÃâà...
New York Times
January 30, 2018
The latest came on Monday, when Islamic State militants stormed an Afghan military training base, killing at least 11 soldiers. In coming months, the total number of American troops in Afghanistan will grow to an estimated 15,000. Nearly a third of them — 4,000 — will have been sent under PresidentÃâà...
C4ISRNet
December 31, 1999
Aerostar's TIF-25K Aerostat -- essentially a tethered blimp that's capable of doing everything from weather research to intelligence work -- is prepared by her ground crew for deployment during tests of concept for using the blimp to counter drug smugglers. It could also help with access control. (Mark D.
War on the Rocks
December 31, 1999
Empires based outside Afghanistan that transferred resources to a local administration that lacked sovereignty (Mughals, Safavid Persians, ... provide joint training to the Afghan and Pakistan security forces; and the U.S. plan to implement its Bilateral Security Agreement with Afghanistan in such a way as toÃâà...
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