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Nordic Reach - Vol. XVIII Num. 13, Septembre 2005

Flying First Class

When it comes to the airline industry, Gunnar Eklund's credo might just as well be "been there, done that." Over a career that has spanned 34 years, Gunnar has served -- and lived -- in such diverse countries as Liberia, Iran and Pakistan. Since 1985 he makes his home in the USA where this Swede is as American as they come. Gunnar started out in Stockholm, working for Scandinavian Airlines. After a two year's hiatus in Monrovia, Liberia (where he met his Guyana-born wife, Claudette), he was, ...

Nordic Reach - Vol. 18 Num. 14, Septembre 2005

Flying First Class

When it comes to the airline industry, Gunnar Eklund's credo might just as well be "been there, done that." Over a career that has spanned 34 years, Gunnar has served-and lived-in such diverse countries as Liberia, Iran and Pakistan. Since 1985 he makes his home in the USA where this Swede is as American as they come. Gunnar started out in Stockholm, working for Scandinavian Airlines. After a two year's hiatus in Monrovia, Liberia (where he met his Guyana-born wife, Claudette), he was, after ...

Swiss News - Num. 2002, Juin 2002

Deiss signs treaties with Uzbekistan.

... The government has spent Sfr107 million in development aid for ...... The foreign minister says he is anxious that Central Asian countries should not be overlooked in light of events of nearby Afghanistan. "These countries are neighbors and they're ...

Armada International - Vol. 33 Num. 2, Avril 2009

BAE Systems US Combat Systems has delivered two nine-tonne Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) prototypes to the US Government in February for testing and evaluation.

BAE Systems US Combat Systems has delivered two nine-tonne Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) prototypes to the US Government in February for testing and evaluation. Purpose-...

Swiss News - Num. 2001, Juin 2001

No Holy War.

Shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, as the U.S. government was preparing for retaliation, George Bush ...

Swiss News - Num. 2003, Juin 2003

Reincarnating Buddha.

Researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have come up with a blueprint to reconstruct the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan--the oldest and tallest standing statues in the ...... In a separate development, the Swiss government is set to give Unesco CHF397,000 ($294,000) to ...

Armada International - Vol. 32 Num. 5, Octobre 2008

Securing the base: on 14 July 'hundreds' of insurgents attacked a temporary combat outpost in Afghanistan's Kunar province near the Pakistan border occupied by 45 members of the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team and 25 soldiers of the Afghan National Army. The attack inflicted the highest casually toll in more than three years, with nine US soldiers dead and another 15 wounded.

... The attack illustrates that insurgents in both Afghanistan and Iraq are adept at spotting weaknesses in ...... The first Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment (Raid) systems were fielded only two months later to Afghanistan. Instead of the 71-metre Jlens aerostat used for ...

Armada International - Vol. 31 Num. 5, Octobre 2007

Word of Mout: the challenges of military operations in urban terrain (Mout) are apparent in news reports from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and other 'hot spots'. Military forces engaged in these operations are investing heavily in fielding Mout training systems.

... Each month a brigade trains at the centre and each training rotation becomes more realistic as lessons are fed back from Iraq and Afghanistan and industry provides new training tools. On ...... Following a request from the US-led Combined Task Force-82 in Afghanistan in 2005 to replicate a typical Afghani compound ...

Nordic Reach - Vol. XVIII Num. 13, Septembre 2005

Memories and Lessons From Somalia

"I think we can very easily change the image of the United Nations," [Jan Eliasson] says. "We need to stop talking about Oil-for-Food or the peacekeepers and start talking about Afghanistan and Lebanon and Liberia. Those are three instances where the success is very much because of the United Nations." "The litmus test and measuring rod for U.N. reforms must be the differences they mark for people and crisis areas around the world," he says. "The nightmare of Somalia will forever remind of th...