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A dozen A-10 ground-attack planes have recently moved from Afghanistan to Kuwait, where they are to start flying missions supporting Iraqi ground troops as early as this week, military officials said. About half a dozen missile-firing Reaper drones will also be redeployed from Afghanistan in the next several weeks. Perhaps nowhere outside the Middle East do the additional surveillance and strike aircraft have a more direct impact than at this Air Force base in central South Carolina, which has become a leading symbol of the military’s ability to carry out global operations from afar. But while planners here will have more firepower to bring to bear against the Islamic State, they confront an enemy that is a hybrid between a conventional army and a terrorist network and has been difficult to target.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:16:22 +0000

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