Word: tajikistan
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...they have chosen to retreat and cede the city to the Northern Alliance, the strategic equation in Afghanistan will have changed overnight. Supply lines from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan would immediately be opened to ferry both military materiel and humanitarian assistance to northern Afghanistan, while the Taliban forces in the north and west would be endanger of being cut off. It would also potentially give the U.S. access to two major airfields inside Afghanistan, allowing it to base strike aircraft within ten minutes flying time of Taliban targets - U.S. fighters currently have to fly off carriers in the Arabian...
...Mazar-i-Sharif before the onset of winter impedes the prospects for ground warfare, the U.S. will have to do more of the heavy lifting itself in the campaign to defeat the Taliban. With Washington having been given the nod by Moscow, U.S. personnel are currently scouting airfields in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, not only as logistical bases for long-term resupply efforts in an expanded Northern Alliance-controlled slice of northern Afghanistan, but also as potential staging areas for a more substantial commitment of U.S. ground troops. The search for new bases also signals the limits on what Washington...
...Late last week he began a mission with stops in Russia, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to defend the war and buck up support among coalition partners. On the agenda in Uzbekistan will be an expanded U.S. use of bases there as America begins to contemplate something it very much wishes to avoid: inserting a substantial ground force into the region...
...carry, and I read them on the train. My theory is this: the more information I have, the more I will feel as if I'm in control. If I can assess the risk of anthrax attacks and suitcase nukes and the Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division amassing in Tajikistan, maybe I won't have to worry about where bin Laden is going to strike next...
...carry, and I read them on the train. My theory is this: the more information I have, the more I will feel as if I'm in control. If I can assess the risk of anthrax attacks and suitcase nukes and the Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division amassing in Tajikistan, maybe I won't have to worry about where bin Laden is going to strike next...