Resupply convoys headed through Iraq to the Syrian regime have been ambushed in recent months.
Shipments of humanitarian aid and resupply going into Iraq have kept the cargo business robust.
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Unlike Hezbollah in Lebanon during the 2006 war, Hamas is cut off from resupply.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, fuel and water comprise about 70 to 80 percent of ground resupply weight.
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The resupply flight has taken back scientific data already collected by the team.
In August, a Soyuz failure on a mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
Obama's hostility demonstrates clearly that Israel must not be dependent on US resupply of military platforms in time of war.
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The resupply of troops and material to Iraq and Afghanistan gets infinitely harder and resistance in those countries gets revitalized.
In August, a Soyuz failure on an unmanned mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
Pen Hadow, the first man to trek solo from Canada to the north pole without resupply in 2003, agrees with the distinction.
The increased firepower has helped the rebels successfully attack the regime's armored vehicles and forced some Syrian units to resupply by helicopter.
In the meantime, NASA must depend on Russian Progress cargo craft as well as European and Japanese transports for space station resupply.
This marks the second successful commercial resupply to the International Space Station.
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Since it's a "warm" day, we'll repack equipment on the bus and resupply it with coffee, paper towels, toilet paper, whatever we need.
The broken SeaCat device was extracted on the first resupply flight and a replacement is due to be delivered in a fortnight's time.
By leaving the border zone under Hamas control, Israel left the path clear for Iran to resupply Hizbullah's armed forces with missiles and rockets.
The Manas Air Base outside Bishkek is the only U.S. base in Central Asia and is a major resupply hub for the war in Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan, we suffer one casualty for every 46 resupply convoys.
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The inflatable test facility, known as a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, will launch aboard a SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the ISS in 2015.
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And second, there is a real possibility that the Obama administration will refuse to resupply Israel with vital weapons systems in the course of the war.
The USNS Rappahannock, a fuel resupply ship, fired on what two U.S. officials called a "small, white pleasure craft" 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Dubai port of Jebel Ali.
Raymond Johns, who heads the service's Air Mobility Command, said the December 2009 surge in U.S. troops has made resupply more challenging, particularly because of the threat of roadside bombs.
Last night I walked along the promenade beside the commercial port, from where tugboats packed with weapons set off to resupply forces inside Misrata, and where a rusting submarine leans against the harbour wall.
Emergency director Marcogliese asked terminal managers to line up fuel trucks that could be sent to resupply a gas station near the Texas City refinery so workers at least would have fuel to get around.
If it does not immediately spring to mind what people will be angry about then consider the following: Western democracies are populace and have become reliant on an infrastructure that depends on 48 hour resupply by road.
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The Renewable Sustainable Expeditionary Power (RSEP) program seeks to create a transportable renewable hybrid system that can provide Marines with electricity for a 15-day mission without relying on fuel resupply convoys that often become targets for adversaries.
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One alternative to Ares, proposed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is to use modified versions of their existing Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets both to go to the moon and to resupply the space station, but at lower cost.
Afghan forces can resupply themselves with food and fuel and water but are still struggling with planning, logistics, equipment maintenance and contracting, Stader said, adding that the brigade he is currently mentoring in eastern Afghanistan needs at least another year of advising before it will be able to operate independently.
The escalating Soviet campaign for naval arms control is, in reality, simply an invitation to disaster for U.S. interests and for those of allied nations whose security depends upon reliable American control of the sea lanes for peacetime communications and commerce and for resupply and reinforcement in time of war.
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