In mid-February, without public announcement, the United States began a campaign of sustained air strikes against the North that were code-named Rolling Thunder.
The Libyan campaign demonstrated that European militaries are unable to conduct sustained air operations on their own, even in their own neighborhood.
But every note in Mr. Sondheim's score feeds a larger, sustained air of menace and obsession, of ugliness and dissonance lurking beneath surface prettiness and harmony.
Without similar replenishment from bases in Japan, we could not sustain air operations over Korea and the Taiwan Strait, or reinforce and resupply our land and naval forces in Asia, or care for American wounded outside a future battle zone.
But that experience is one more reminder that Europe is still not ready for prime time — and, no matter how important the stakes, European militaries are unable to conduct sustained air operations on their own, even in their own neighborhood.
The war in Yemen has intensified in recent days, with the southern city of Aden rocked by some of the most ferocious street battles since the start of hostilities and the capital, Sana'a, enduring one of the worst sustained air raids in the last month.
There has been fierce fighting around the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, after sustained air attacks by the US-led coagainst against fighters from Islamic State.
In this study, the transverse grates were designed to be dense and deep to sustain air pockets in the gaps of hydrophobic grooves for a long time.
The compressor provides sustained air flow rate during the mild stall/surge event that occurs due to the transient step-load change that is applied, indicating that this type of compressor is well-suited for this hybrid application.
This is not Libya, a sustained air campaign," McDonough said on "Fox News Sunday".
FEMA's response to Hurricane Maria was also "the longest sustained air mission of food and water delivery in FEMA history," according to the report.
