USAFE Strengthening Airfields In Light Of Stronger Russia

By Leigh Giangreco / September 14, 2015 at 6:16 PM
The Air Force is turning its European focus toward creating more agile airfields, as a stronger Russia emerges out of the ashes of its failed invasion of Georgia in 2008, according to the head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. "The alarming thing is that . . . in Georgia, apparently they didn't like what they saw from the air and apparently what we saw was a very large modernization and a capacity effort that is manifesting itself at this...

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