As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
If, for instance, they really do close down Incirlik Air Force Base, we're going to be logistically blind in the north, and it would be extremely difficult for us to re-supply and to coordinate air strikes.
After all, this outcome was made virtually inevitable by the Europeans' unwillingness over the past week to implement or enforce what the United States hoped would be the three basic pillars of allied action -- the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnian Muslims, air strikes and a total shut-down of the Danube and other essential supply lines for the Serbian war machine and economy.
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The director of the president's office, Zaw Htay, had earlier said they had not been informed of any air attacks and that the military had told them they were only using planes to re-supply its troops.
Without this land route, the government can supply its troops in the Tamil-dominated peninsula only by sea or by air.
After four days of fighting, some 300 fighters at Abraq air base the regime's last stronghold in the east, and a supply-point for reinforcements fell to the opposition.
Raburn's goal is to supply America with an "air taxi service" that promises to fly passengers point-to-point (say, from Fargo to Mobile or from Des Moines to Charleston) for the price of a first-class ticket.
Right now in the all-important oil world of the Middle East and North Africa, short-term supply, future prices, ownership and preferred trading partners are all up in the air.
The model that Mr Smith cooked up at Yale, based on a hub-and-spoke system of overnight air delivery, has since expanded to encompass a broad portfolio of businesses contributing to efficient supply chains.
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