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Iron Eagle: Ukraine

Iron Eagle: Ukraine

The 1980s was an era that was characterized by high levels of patriotism in he United States, supported by a generation of action films and accompanying stars. A few months before the release of Top Gun, there was a movie about a kid and his plane called Iron Eagle, a film built around the F-16A/B […]

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A Question of Sovereignty as U.S. Gives Pakistan F-16 Fighters Jets

Salman Masood recently wrote a very interesting blog post for the New York Times At War blog.  The U.S. has passed along 3 F-16 fighter planes to the Pakistani Air Force; the transfer has caused much strutting fan fare and has germinated a crashing wave crop of billowing, swollen chests. Citing reportage in Dawn, the […]

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