Nevertheless, during the Gulf war in 1991 the American air force found that its 2, 000lb (about a tonne) bunker-busters were incapable of piercing some Iraqi bunkers.
Absolute destitution and the ravages of war were thick in the air, and the couple blamed the United States, which had just implemented sanctions against the Taliban.
Tensions are rising and a whiff of war is hanging in the air.
While the second world war was on he served in the air force (in bombing missions over Japan).
Meanwhile, the Army had suffered an embarrassing setback in the 1999 Balkan air war, encountering major problems in deploying its helicopters to the war zone.
LifePoint's device measures drugs in saliva by using a chemical the Navy used during the Gulf War to detect biological or chemical weapons in the air.
During one of the occasional anti-war demonstrations he stood in front of the Air Force ROTC building reportedly saying that he could not stop them but he could probably take a few with him.
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He flew 266 combat missions in Vietnam but is best known for masterminding the Gulf war air campaign in 1991.
Retired Air Force Colonel John A. Warden III flew 266 combat missions in Vietnam but is best known for masterminding the Gulf war air campaign in 1991.
The second world war (in which Mr Stevens served in the air force) ended America's Great Depression, and ended the need to look far and wide for work.
In 1942, the battle of the Coral Sea started in World War II, when naval and air battles began off the Solomon Islands.
It was to help the UK to assess the risk of an attack using biological agents by providing important information about their likely dispersion in the open air during the Cold War.
Mr Rumsfeld said that there was no comparison between the air war in World War II, where "dumb weapons were widely distributed across large areas, " and the precise targeting employed now to ensure that military targets and the leaders of the regime were precisely attacked without harming the Iraqi people.
And, because flying the behemoth was now possible, the Army gained a decisive air advantage in the Second World War which enabled its devastating bombing campaign across Nazi Germany.
In 2001, Phillips was the first network correspondent to gain exclusive access to CAG 9, the elite Navy air wing, in preparation for the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Since its debut in the 1999 air war over Kosovo, the B-2 has flown combat missions exclusively from Whiteman, logging sorties that have at times exceeded 40 hours.
Then Serbia which spends less on its military in a year than NATO does in a day managed to shoot down a stealthy U.S. strike aircraft during the Balkan air war in 1999.
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While the book also touches on the crises in Haiti and Somalia, and crams the air war against Serbia over Kosovo into three of its 44 chapters, it is essentially about American policy towards Bosnia.
Mr. Bush made no mention of the fact that he served in the Texas Air National Guard at a time when the nation was mired in the Vietnam War.
The Cold War was over, but in two successive military campaigns during the 1990s, air power had done the heavy lifting required to defeat aggressive dictators.
"People will think you're scum, " he could be heard telling a radio talk show host in The War Room who was threatening to air new sex allegations against Clinton.
'Old Flo' is really the Henry Moore masterpiece Draped Seated Woman which the West Yorkshire sculptor made as a tribute to the ordeal suffered by Londoners as they huddled in shelters during the lethal air raids of World War II.
Following the war he was stationed in Germany before his last appointment as director of air defence operations at the air ministry.
Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.
This was one of the war's most revolutionary aircaft, made of wood for lightness and the fastest thing in the air.
Opera shows are staged in former swimming pools, contemporary art is displayed on the scruffy walls of World War II bunkers and open air raves are held in abandoned spy towers.
The Democrats complained about a plan to air a documentary attacking Mr Kerry's anti-war activities in the early 1970s.
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