Gary Schaub Jr., PhD, is an assistant professor in the Leadership and Strategy Department, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

小加里•肖布博士，阿拉巴马州麦克斯韦尔空军基地空战大学领导和战略部助理教授。

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TWO days of heavy air strikes by a Western-led coalition have abruptly flipped the momentum of Libya's civil war, particularly in the east of the country.

以西方为首的联军两日来的猛烈空袭已成为利比亚内战的扭转乾坤之举，这一变化在东部地区尤为明显。

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This is how far the U.S. war effort in Iraq has wound down: There wasn't a single American airstrike in Iraq last month, according statistics from the U.S. air Force.

在伊拉克运行的美国战争机器慢慢逐步停转的程度：据美国空军的统计数据，上个月美军对伊拉克一次空袭也没有。

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The World War Two Memorial stands in the open air.

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He was a fighter pilot during the war,then served in the post-war Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

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The president told the audience at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville that the United States has an obligation to its latest war dead.

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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.

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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.

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Tensions are rising and a whiff of war is hanging in the air.

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