The U.S. Armed Forces are doing work in Nevada that's critical to the defense and security of the nation and the state - training pilots, testing drones, fighting overseas remotely, storing munitions and helping battle fires, to name a handful.
I'm just back from visiting all of our key air bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and along the Persian Gulf, and I find myself wrestling with two stark contrasts: the contrast between what is happening there in the air and what is happening on the ground, and the contrast between the decency of the U.S. military personnel fighting this war and how unworthy Donald Trump - who has become our divider in chief - is to be their commander in chief. The first contrast was summed up in two wall-size digital maps at our Kuwait-based command center for the war on ISIS.
The four-month air campaign to drive militants from Sirte without committing large numbers of U.S. advisers or ground forces is being studied as a model for future U.S. military efforts campaigns against ISIS. How U.S. drones won a battle against ISIS for the first time in Libya The four-month air campaign to drive militants from Sirte without committing large numbers of U.S. advisers or ground forces is being studied as a model for future U.S. military efforts campaigns against ISIS.