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With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower.
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Tara Copp, Fortune, 4 May 2024
Loading your audio article EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower.
—Tara Copp, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
Traditional understandings of coercive airpower feature large amounts of damage, short timelines, or both.
—Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Its resources are stretched and maintaining airpower is expensive, analysts say.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Israel thus sees airpower as a way to minimize its forces’ casualties on the ground, and so restricting it at the potential cost of more Israeli lives is a tough political sell.
—Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
At present, with Ukraine short of weapons and munitions because of the US Congress’ not passing a $60 billion package of aid, the Russians are also making their very substantial advantage in artillery, armor and airpower felt.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
Unable to develop reliable local allies who could successfully counter well-disciplined, albeit extreme, forces on the ground, Saudi Arabia relied on airpower, which was largely ineffective in holding territory against the Houthis and wound up hitting many inappropriate and unjustifiable targets.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
For Ukraine, that includes airpower, both fighter jets and drones; electronic-warfare capability to counter Russian jamming; and counter-battery fire to locate and target Russian artillery systems.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
Tara Copp, Fortune, 4 May 2024
Loading your audio article EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower.
—Tara Copp, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
Traditional understandings of coercive airpower feature large amounts of damage, short timelines, or both.
—Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Its resources are stretched and maintaining airpower is expensive, analysts say.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
Israel thus sees airpower as a way to minimize its forces’ casualties on the ground, and so restricting it at the potential cost of more Israeli lives is a tough political sell.
—Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
At present, with Ukraine short of weapons and munitions because of the US Congress’ not passing a $60 billion package of aid, the Russians are also making their very substantial advantage in artillery, armor and airpower felt.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
Unable to develop reliable local allies who could successfully counter well-disciplined, albeit extreme, forces on the ground, Saudi Arabia relied on airpower, which was largely ineffective in holding territory against the Houthis and wound up hitting many inappropriate and unjustifiable targets.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2024
For Ukraine, that includes airpower, both fighter jets and drones; electronic-warfare capability to counter Russian jamming; and counter-battery fire to locate and target Russian artillery systems.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
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