Many of those complexes are unlikely to be destroyed by U.S. bombing raids, Goodson said.
But Turkish bases will remain open to American aircraft staging bombing raids on Iraq.
France, a former colonial power, mobilized its military and launched bombing raids and sent in troops.
The UK has 12 tornado aircraft in Kuwait, six Jaguar bombers in Turkey, which could be used in bombing raids.
In the 59 bombing raids that flattened Plymouth during World War II more than 1, 000 high explosives fell on the city.
Similarly in western Sudan, in Darfur, most military encounters (whether bombing raids by government aircraft, or ground attacks by warlords) are one-sided assaults on unarmed non-combatants.
Its refusal to risk any casualties on its own side by avoiding lower-level (and thus more accurate) bombing raids has led, by its own admission, to civilian casualties.
The villagers in this part of South Kordofan say they live in fear of the bombing raids by Sudanese airplanes that seem to happen almost daily.
However, the janjaweed also launched a campaign of rape, murder and pillage against civilians, backed up by bombing raids on Darfur's villages by the Sudanese air force.
Civilians in the Nuba Mountains have resorted to hiding in rocky outcrops and caves, and piling stones over makeshift foxholes to take cover from the bombing raids.
NATO's bombing raids, meanwhile, were directed against a broadening range of economic targets, as well as the Belgrade headquarters of Mr Milosevic's Socialist Party and his own residence.
There have also been persistent claims by independent aid groups that Sudanese government troops and rebels have used Chinese oil company airstrips to conduct bombing raids on villages and hospitals.
When a US-backed coup installed Lon Nol as Cambodia's leader, Sihanouk - by then alienated by US bombing raids on Vietnamese communist guerrillas inside Cambodia - was forced into exile in Beijing.
Albert Speer, the German armaments minister, expressed amazement that the repair operations were left untroubled by further bombing raids which would have delayed the vital reconstruction and turned a nuisance into a major crisis.
But the decision looks set to put added strain on Schroeder's coalition with the pacifist-leaning Greens party, several prominent members of which have called for a halt to the U.S. bombing raids on Afghanistan.
NATO's Kosovo campaign last year, that America had the most advanced equipment, did the lion's share of the bombing raids over Serbia, and then found most ships and planes to ferry in the peacekeepers.
Certainly the most appealing feature for me was the grappling hook and rope combo -- one of many features cloned from Liero -- which allowed for humiliating, Tarzan-like, bombing raids against unsuspecting brothers and sisters.
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Born in the East End of London, the son of street traders, Herbert grew up in Whitechapel -- where Jack the Ripper once stalked his victims -- in an area badly hit by Second World War bombing raids.
Exactly when and why the Luftwaffe High Command decided to switch from these nuisance raids to conventional bombing raids on cultural centres of no military value is difficult to determine, but on 23 April, twenty-five German bombers attacked Exeter, using radar beams as a guide.
The U.S. military said coalition forces picked up 10 suspected terrorists during raids targeting car bombing networks across the capital Sunday.
The authorities were seriously concerned about the effect of heavy bombing on the civilian population, but Hull did not crack and the raids produced many examples of heroism.
Unlike the British and Germans with their carpet bombing of one another, the Americans put their faith in daylight precision raids and set out to pick off Japan's engineering factories one at a time.
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