The air bridge sustaining US operations in the Middle East

The air bridge sustaining US operations in the Middle East

A new open-source map traces what appear to be the main routes used by U.S. Air Force heavy airlift aircraft between North America, Europe and the CENTCOM theatre, and while it’s built from publicly available data rather than classified sources it gives a pretty unusually clear picture of how American military logistics actually function at this kind of distance. The graphic, titled Operation EPIC FURY, was put together by DefenceGeek, a senior …