military and the ability of the United States to long-distance cargo aircraft and the aerial refueling defend its interests in the world that is rather than planes needed to establish an air bridge to and with- the world we wish we had, the trends irrefutably in an operational theater.1 show that the U. [...] The Bab al-Mandab Strait that connects the Red Sea rapidity, devastating effectiveness, and scale of with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea and Operation Desert Storm were a grand testament through which flows approximately five million to the force built in the 1980s to defeat Soviet and barrels of oil and petroleum products each day.10 Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. [...] The Operating Environment: The Middle East The Operating Environment: The Asia-Pacific Over the past decade, the Middle East remained The Asia-Pacific region was much the same: res- what it almost always has been: characterized by tive (but without the level of terrorism and rampant The Heritage Foundation | heritage.org/Military 35 instability found in the Middle East) while a"ord- of power by Ta. [...] Of the services, the Marine 2018 was also the year that the service released Corps appears to have the firmest grasp of what it its massive study reporting on its deep analysis needs to be and what it needs to do to be prepared of how much airpower the country needed to se- for war. [...] The commercial space sector also has introduced in the early 1980s); and the acquisition advanced at a remarkable pace and now launches of the amphibious combat vehicle (ACV), initial- the majority of missions for the U.
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