Military Bases and Installations

• The Secret Egyptian Air Base Powering Sudan’s Drone War - The covert base offers new evidence of how the Sudanese conflict is morphing into a theater for high-tech warfare, driven by foreign interests.
• Nazis, Soviets and Trump: America’s Fixation With Greenland - The idea that Greenland is essential to the United States has returned with a vengeance in the Trump era.
• Denmark Bristles at Idea of Giving Up Any Sovereignty in Greenland - American and NATO officials have discussed giving the United States sovereignty over U.S. military bases in Greenland. The Danes don’t seem to like that.
• U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Qatar Air Base as Trump Weighs Military Response to Iran - Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
• Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand. - Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will.
• How the Army Caused Alarm in the Washington Skies Years Before a Fatal Crash - An aged helicopter fleet and inexperienced pilots from nearby Fort Belvoir had raised “widespread concern” among local pilots before a midair collision killed 67 people.