It appears that Putin hopes to engineer a "re-do" of the 1983 deployment of U.S. ground-launched cruise missiles and Pershing II ballistic missiles in five West European countries.
For that reason, among others, Alaska's Fort Greely was selected as the site for the principal U.S. ground-based defense against such missiles.
U.S. army units will provide logistical support on the ground plus air mobility -- U.S. helicopters will ferry the NATO forces around.
On March 19, 2003, U.S. missiles and bunker-busting bombs dropped by air struck targets inside Iraq, paving the way for a ground invasion by U.S.-led forces the next day that eventually overthrew President Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9.
Whether the U.S. system of ground-based interceptors are the right response quickly became a matter of debate Friday.
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Likewise, ground-breaking on U.S. single-family homes hit a four-year high last month, according to the Commerce Department, and building permits increased at the highest annual rate since June 2008.
If no other buyers show up--possible bidders include the U.S. government, which owns an Iridium ground station in Hawaii--McCaw could buy it before ICO starts business in 2002.
Richard Myers estimated Tuesday, in an afternoon briefing to reporters, that the first hours of the air operation resulted in an "85 percent" success rate, and had effectively cleared away most fixed, ground-based threats to U.S. aircraft.
The U.S. report found that the U.S.-Afghan commando team on the ground reported the correct coordinates to their supervisors.
"I saw people going on the ground so I just made a U-turn and ran out of the building, " he said.
Amid the violence, a five-member U.N. team with expertise in politics, peacekeeping and mediation was on the ground in Syria, according to Eduardo del Buey, deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general.
And then on the Middle East again -- is the U.S. fearful about Israeli ground forces entering Gaza?
Virginia Burkett is the scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey who has analyzed the ground-based measurement of subsidence.
Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.
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The plan is for U.S. military aircraft, accompanied by U.S. military security forces, to fly French troops and equipment into a neighboring country -- because the airport in Bamako is "very busy" -- after which they can move on the ground, a U.S. defense official said.
The fact is that some of the resolutions -- the questions that were part of the House resolution -- and we have endeavored in this report to we believe answer a lot of those questions -- that resolution also said that there should be no U.S. ground troops.
As U.S. strategy shifts from ground operations in the Middle East to naval-air operations in the Western Pacific, the Navy deserves more attention.
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Muriel said that in the face of Northern Alliance opposition to British troops and what is being seen as limited U.S. support for UK ground forces, Britain appeared to be back-tracking on sending its forces.
Assets seen as havens, such as U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds, gold and the yen, all gained ground.
But thanks to self-immolating lithium-ion batteries, regulators in Japan and the U.S. have demanded that airlines ground their 787s until the problem with the batteries is solved.
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While a stronger case can be made (and has been by the Center in the past) for American engagement on behalf of the Bosnian Muslim victims of Serbian aggression, U.S. ground elements should not under present or foreseeable circumstances be deployed to Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The language of "capacity building" contained in this act is an open-ended term that if logically followed, could eventually mean U.S. troops on the ground in Syria.
Because I've been working down there for nearly a year as the U.N. special envoy, I've been in constant touch with our people through the U.N. on the ground, and you know we lost a lot of our people there -- the largest loss of life in the history of the United Nations on a single day.
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The U.S. military has become heavily dependent on orbital systems and their supporting ground networks to connect far-flung forces, collect vital intelligence, detect missile launches, provide precise navigation information, and monitor weather conditions.
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Former Cold War facilities also will be transformed into a supply base for U.S. forces on the ground in Bosnia. kicked out To make room, hundreds of Hungarian soldiers -- including some who received little advance notice -- are being forced out of their barracks.
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