This is a pretty good wrap. I don't care for the fonts or the graphics but the data is pretty good. I'm impressed.
On top of everything else, Putin's most interesting unintended consequences:
- reinvigorating EU
- reinvigorating NATO
- enlarging NATO by at least two, maybe three
- bringing US back into Europe and, worse, eastern Europe
US getting incredible experience and training in Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting.
Amazing.
From the linked article:
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has 9,730 personnel permanently deployed throughout Britain, an increase of 22 percent from six years ago.
Analysis by Declassified has found that Britain hosts the third-highest level of USAF personnel of any country in the world, ahead of historic U.S. military outposts like South Korea and Italy. [Italy?]
These American airmen have in recent years flown bombing missions to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya from their bases in Britain.
“The USAF presence in Britain isn’t just some remnant of the Cold War, it’s ongoing and very active,” Kate Hudson, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), told Declassified.
The USAF from the Brits' point of view? Oversexed, overpaid and over here. Yeah. I know. Not original.
Some of the best years of my life were in England: RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Menwith Hill.
