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  • Mohawk600

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    Having spent a career in the Air Force, I’ll be the first to tell you air power can’t hold ground. The only way to control land space is with land forces.

    Even if air power turns every single square inch of land into pulverized dust, the moment air power is no long present, the land space is open for grabs.

    Foreign policy in the Middle East isn’t difficult to understand...for the past 1500 years, mostly nomadic tribes have fought one another over resources, religion, and reputation; about 100 years ago Europeans put lines on a map to represent borders, ensuring those lines captured a significant opposing minority for various political reasons. That’s also about the same time the peoples in that area began the march from pre-industrial societies to post-industrial societies.
    Our presence in the middle east is a losing proposition......we will never influence their politics or religion.
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    Younggun

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    Having spent a career in the Air Force, I’ll be the first to tell you air power can’t hold ground. The only way to control land space is with land forces.

    Even if air power turns every single square inch of land into pulverized dust, the moment air power is no long present, the land space is open for grabs.

    Foreign policy in the Middle East isn’t difficult to understand...for the past 1500 years, mostly nomadic tribes have fought one another over resources, religion, and reputation; about 100 years ago Europeans put lines on a map to represent borders, ensuring those lines captured a significant opposing minority for various political reasons. That’s also about the same time the peoples in that area began the march from pre-industrial societies to post-industrial societies.

    We learned in WW2 that air power alone doesn’t win wars. Both allies and axis attempted to bomb each other in to submission to no avail. Japan was an extreme circumstance and it’s no longer viable.


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    Mohawk600

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    We learned in WW2 that air power alone doesn’t win wars. Both allies and axis attempted to bomb each other in to submission to no avail. Japan was an extreme circumstance and it’s no longer viable.


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    We also learned that occupying and trying to rebuild nations with different ideologies than we have as a nation......doesn't work.
     

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    "Turkey holding 50 US nuclear bombs 'hostage' at air base, report says"

    I was a Nuclear Weapons Specialist in the USAF and worked with a number of fellow airman that had been stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. At my location I worked around the same type of B61 nukes that are at Turkey and a few other types as well. I am aware of a number of things on the subject of this Fox report. The report in question has more truth to it than many would realize that goes back before the current situation there. Without going into details that are likely still classified I would say that there are concerns about Turkey and measures have been taken to avoid something very bad happening with the nukes in question there.
     
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    "Turkey holding 50 US nuclear bombs 'hostage' at air base, report says"

    I was a Nuclear Weapons Specialist in the USAF and worked with a number of fellow airman that had been stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. At my location I worked around the same type of B61 nukes that are at Turkey and a few other types as well. I am aware of a number of things on the subject of this Fox report. The report in question has more truth to it than many would realize that goes back before the current situation there. Without going into details that are likely still classified I would say that there are concerns about Turkey and measures have been taken to avoid something very bad happening with the nukes in question there.
    I imagine that anyone attempting to make off with those devices would join a fresh glowing patch of dust from an improvised dirty bomb where there used to be a nuclear storage facility.
     
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