Compare and contrast. Amnesty International said last month that the US-led coalition killed hundreds of civilians in re-taking Raqqa from Islamic State (IS), many of them in airstrikes. Air commanders in Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) say they took the greatest care to avoid any such outcome. The UK Ministry of Defence still says that British … Continue reading URBAN CLOSE AIR SUPPORT – AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION?
Author: Chris Pocock
Chris Pocock is a British full-time writer, specialising in defence aerospace. He was the defence editor of AVIATION INTERNATIONAL NEWS for 30 years until retiring in mid-2018. He lectures and writes about intelligence-gathering during the Cold War, particularly by spy planes.
IT’S TIME TO RE-FOCUS!
After 30 years of covering the aerospace/defense business for Aviation International News (AIN), I will be leaving on good terms in mid-2018, to focus on my other interests: I am best-known as the unofficial historian of the U-2 spyplane. I want to revise the book that I self-published in 2015, on the recent and current … Continue reading IT’S TIME TO RE-FOCUS!
Chris Pocock Makes Aerosense 