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Israel wants the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, but they are unlikely ever to procure the fifth-generation fight er. The U.S. sends more Military aid to Israel than to any other country. Washington dispensed over $11 billion in Military aid to foreign countries in 2020, and $3.3 billion went to Israel. Only two other countries received more than $1 billion: Afghanistan – a nation the U.S. occupied for two decades – and Egypt.  A Preferred Partner Israel was not always the primary benefactor of U.S. military aid. In the early 1960s, the U.S. sought to limit foreign arms distribution in the Middle East. But after the Six-Day War, U.S. policy toward Israel changed significantly. The conflict showed that several Arab states had aligned themselves with the Soviet Union. Washington wanted to balance Soviet power in the Middle East, so the U.S. made a strategic choice to bolster Israel’s Military enough to give it a qualitative edge in the region. Accordingly, the U.S. began ...

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Even as a young lad, I was a war buff. There was my favorite video game and flight simulator F-15E Strike Eagle in which you could pick a number of different missions and go up against the best. My favorite scenario was an attack on Syria and fighting against Soviet-era fighters and surface-to-air missiles. I wish I could say I had an unblemished experience with the game. The bad guys were good enough to shoot me down in simulations. But the real F-15E Strike Eagle is still a marvel. The F-15 series of variants has a perfect record in real life – enjoying a 104 to zero kill ratio – no losses in over 40 years of flying for the U.S. Air Force. Let’s take a closer look at what made this fighter a true marvel. A pair of heritage painted F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing conduct aerial maneuvers over southern England June 9, 2019. The Liberty Wing conducts routine training daily to ensure the 48th Fighter Wing brings unique air combat capabilities to the fi...

Over the last decades, air forces have always been the first Military component engaged in all crises or conflicts, from the Falklands to the Gulf, from Bosnia to Kosovo, from Afghanistan to Libya, and more recently Mali, the Central African Republic, Iraq and Syria. Military aviation is undoubtedly the most strategic weapon today, both in terms of combat effectiveness and of critical technologies implemented. In modern warfare, air dominance from day one is a must, so that air-to-ground and air-to-sea operations can be conducted safely and efficiently. In the course of asymmetrical and counter-insurgency conflicts, the air arm also remains at the forefront of the Military effort, its flexibility and firing power helping ensure that allied forces prevail.  Image The September 11 events have shown that, in peacetime, it is essential to secure the national airspace with easily deployable control and air defense assets. The decisive place of the air component in...