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It is the policy of the U.S. to develop and maintain a defensive chemical-biological (CB) capability so that our military forces could operate for some period of time in a toxic environment, if necessary; to develop and maintain a limited offensive capability in order to deter all use of CB weapons by the threat of retaliation in kind; and to ...
The U.S. military acknowledges that it tested several chemical and biological weapons on US military personnel in the desert facility, including the East Demilitarization Area near Deseret Chemical Depot/Deseret Chemical Test Center at Fort Douglas, Utah, but takes the position that the tests have contributed to long-term illnesses in only a ...
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A History of Air Education and Training Command "The First Command" 80 Years Strong 1942-2022 (PDF). Joint Base San Antonio–Randolph AFB, TX: Office of History and Research, Air Education and Training Command .
While the history of biological weapons use goes back more than six centuries to the siege of Caffa in 1346, [9] international restrictions on biological weapons began only with the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use but not the possession or development of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts. [10]
*This mission was later taken over by the (then) Germany-based, 3rd Infantry Div (Mech). Echo (1998–2000) — Canada sending air forces to Aviano, Italy to enforce a no-fly zone over Balkan region (UNSFOR and UNKFOR). Essential Harvest (2001) — month-long NATO mission of disarming ethnic Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia.
A Dictionary of Military Architecture: Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Francis Wyley, drawings by Steven Lowe; Victorian Forts glossary Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. A more comprehensive version has been published as A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore at the same site
A military operation (op) is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation.These actions are designed as a military plan to resolve the situation in the state or actor's favor.