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The Emerging Trump Doctrine of Strategic Savvy

... peaceful Sunni demonstrations very violently. He stopped honoring agreements to provide various forms of assistance to tens of thousands of former Sunni insurgents who had reconciled with the government during the Surge. Tragically, these actions undid much ... ... what Obama had failed to do in 2013 despite his own declared red line. So did the dropping of the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB, or Massive Ordnance Air Blast), the largest conventional bomb in the US arsenal, on ISIS fighters in Afghanistan on April ...

23.06.2017

Big Bang in Afghanistan

... Pentagon news outlets , have been citing a US Central Command report to the effect that “the largest-yield conventional bomb” has been used against a regional Islamic State cell in Afghanistan. What does this mean? The bomb in question is the GBU-43/B MOAB (the abbreviation stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast, but is commonly known as the Mother Of All Bombs) GPS-guided munition. It was urgently developed in the run-up to the second Iraq war and produced in a small series of about 20 units (according ...

14.04.2017
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