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Originally Posted by
SASless
The Wild Card in this is Turkey. Is their Boss Fellah just talking smack or is he serious about intervening and does he have the support of his. own military and populace for doing that?
How complicated is it for a NATO member, in this case Turkey, to take up arms against some of its NATO Allies?
That is a good question, but if you look at the mutual antagonism between the Greeks and the Turks over the last 60 years, or so, in NATO it isn't too hard to expect that there is a lot of back channel communication ongoing at the moment among NATO allies, none of which sees print.
Originally Posted by
SASless
Are the French still in Djibouti.....seems a nice airfield there that has seen lots of use by various air forces.
And very close to Yemen.
Of course there are other airbases around the Middle East where land based air ops can follow from.
But that does not negate the time constraints ocean based assets must confront.
Each base in such a nation has political constraints attending those basing arrangements.