Essays on Air Forces

The F-16 Fighting Falcon Lockheed Martin, the first multirole fighter of the US Air Force, is the most useful fighter jet in the world with more than two thousand units in service with the United States Air Force and two thousand operative aircraft in more than twenty-five countries. Entering service in 1978 became the first fighter purposely built to withstand twists 9-gravity force. The last of the 2,231 F-16s, the Air Force of the United States, was delivered in the first quarter of 2005, while the first dual-seat version, called F-16D, was approved by the United States of ...

The battles of the two coalitions during World War II deployed on the space of the four basis theaters of war: the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the West European and the Eastern ones, with the Pacific playing the role of the primary battleground that witnessed the great sea battles between the Japanese and Allies. Apart from Nazi Germany, Military Japan also had expansionist plans in its strategy during WWII. As long as in 1931 it made an attempt to occupy Manchuria and North China, as well as the invasion into the depth of China in 1937 (Japanese Conquest). The expansion ...

Introduction

There has been a cold war between the United States and Cuba since the island was under the rule of Spaniards. Cuba lies only ninety miles of the coast of Florida, and this proximity has lent a viewpoint of many American decision-makers. This proximity to the United States also meant that their harbors were of strategic importance. Cuba's harbors could be used by enemies to threaten the US, and conversely, the US could use the harbors as its first line of the defense against its enemies. This island was factored into the United States economic system, and its economy ...