“Austere and remote airstrips” = any straight stretch of highway for a C-130.
You want the ability to land on a road, refuel and reload from trucks, and take off again, and have everyone be gone before the enemy has time to target you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGhsnj8p7c
Of course.
I was only highlighting the poetic, almost pseudo-oriental prose.
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