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Although Manas is "very essential" to U.S. operations in Afghanistan, "we obviously have other options," Air Force General Duncan McNabb, chief of the U.S. Transportation Command, said last December. While most U.S. troops arrive in Afghanistan via Manas, only about 20% of their cargo does; roughly half travels overland through...
Kyrgyzstan is as strange as the sound of its name. For one thing, it's the only nation in the world to host military bases for both the U.S. and Russia. And while it sought - and eventually won - a nearly fourfold rent increase from the Pentagon last year for continued...
Russia's influence is extensive in the former Soviet republic, and Moscow has been irritated by the U.S. presence in what it calls its "near abroad" - former Soviet territories - since the U.S. began operations at Manas in 2001. In Moscow in February 2009, perhaps spurred by the offer of a...
As part of President Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan by the fall, more than 1,500 U.S. soldiers cycle through the base every day, either heading into or out of Afghanistan. Flights between Manas and Afghanistan employ Air Force C-17 and other military...
The Kyrgyz themselves are of Turkic stock, one of the many confederations of Central Asian nomadic tribes that coalesced into an ethnic group over generations of war and migration. Their founding national myth is the Epic of Manas, a 500,000-line poem that is 12 times the size of...