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Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Japan and the United States could share the cell’s intelligence with Australia and the Philippines, which could in turn contribute personnel at the air base and provide data from their own unmanned surface and aerial platforms.
—Ely Ratner, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2025
On March 17, 1947, Christensen gathered with other flight instructors at a naval air base in Glenview, Illinois.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
What is clear is that the ties between the United States and Qatar are already extremely close, in large part because of the sprawling air base there, where the United States has one of its largest operations in the Middle East.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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Qatar has spent billions of dollars to support a garrison of 10,000 U.S. troops at its Al Udeid air base, the largest American bastion in the Middle East.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Japan and the United States could share the cell’s intelligence with Australia and the Philippines, which could in turn contribute personnel at the air base and provide data from their own unmanned surface and aerial platforms.
—Ely Ratner, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2025
On March 17, 1947, Christensen gathered with other flight instructors at a naval air base in Glenview, Illinois.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
What is clear is that the ties between the United States and Qatar are already extremely close, in large part because of the sprawling air base there, where the United States has one of its largest operations in the Middle East.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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