The day after Israel began an air assault on Gaza in late December, the U.N.
But even with all the new weapons, can the rebels fend off an air assault?
He was speaking as his 16 Air Assault Brigade took over from 52 Infantry Brigade last month.
They won't even prevent Russia from supplying Iran with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to protect its nuclear installations from air assault.
Troops from 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, recently returned to Colchester after a six-month tour of Afghanistan.
The ground push has resulted in mounting casualties on both sides, as Israel continues the air assault it started on December 27.
The British soldiers will include units from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, 3 Commando Brigade, 16 Air Assault Brigade and 45 Commando Royal Marines.
The air assault, which residents say began about 3 a.m. and likely included drone strikes, flattened everything across a vast compound that includes the school.
The U.S.-led air assault that launched the Gulf War began one day after the expiration of a United Nations deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait.
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The regiment provides supplies to the Army's 16 Air Assault Brigade.
Israel began its air assault on Gaza on December 27 to stop the rocket attacks that have killed four Israelis since the military campaign began.
They are on three sides of the city and we have seen the 16 Air Assault Brigade move closer down toward the city from the north.
It's the largest Israeli air assault against Lebanon in decades, and it comes one day after Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross border raid.
The operation started in mid-June with an air assault along a canal about 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the city of Lashkar Gah, the ministry said.
Since Harry qualified in February he has been gaining additional flying experience with 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, the statement said.
In a little over an hour, a team of U.S. and Afghan Special Forces will begin an operation an air assault on a suspected Taliban hideout.
Chinese fears of U.S.-led "hegemony" have been intensified not only by NATO's air assault on Yugoslavia, but also by a recent strengthening of Washington's defense ties with Japan.
Britain's 16th Air Assault division, which has been protecting the Rumalia oil fields, have also extended their operation northwest toward Highway 6, a major route out of Basra.
His relationship with former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin led Russia to pressure Yugoslavia to agree to a diplomatic end to NATO's air assault over Kosovo earlier this year.
As General John Abizaid spoke to reporters in Washington, the U.S. Army was launching what they called the largest air assault in Iraq since the initial invasion three years ago.
Last week soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade performed a homecoming march through Colchester and attended a service of thanks in Bury St Edmunds to mark their return from Afghanistan.
Rasool said his decision to leave his home in Hisarak district came nearly a month ago after a particularly blistering air assault killed five people in the neighboring village of Meya Saheeb.
Colleagues told the inquest that Pte Cutts, of 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, was struck from behind as he faced an area where Taleban forces were suspected to be.
When the decision was made to go into Iraq, you were there, too, making the longest air assault in history, defeating a vicious insurgency, ultimately giving Iraqis the chance to secure their democracy.
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But grim forebodings prove all too accurate: an air assault lays waste to the landscape and a ground invasion from an unidentified army leaves their neighbors dead and draws them into the vortex of brutality.
In an essay published this spring in Commentary, he made the case for a unilateral American air assault on Iran as the only way to prevent its otherwise inexorable drive to nuclear status and regional hegemony.
The Distinguished Flying Cross was given to Flt Lt Alexander Duncan for his "consummate professionalism and strength of character while recovering an aircraft and pressing ahead with an air assault in the face of intense fire".
Still, the nature of the deployment gives some clues as to what British soldiers might actually do on the ground. 16 Air Assault Brigade will provide the sort of troops who might descend on northern Iraq from Turkey, assuming that the current diplomatic whirl yields Turkish co-operation.
Insurgents took the town on Thursday but retreated Friday after a combined air and ground assault.
Insurgents took the town Thursday but retreated the next day after a combined air and ground assault.
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