How Closed Airspace Threatens U.S. Military Mobility Across Eurasia

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The article examines how airspace closures could constrain U.S. military mobility across Eurasia, despite aviation's ability to reroute around geographic barriers. The author draws on experience with Russian cargo airline AirBridgeCargo and discusses broader implications for aviation networks.

For much of the modern aviation era, geography was something the global aviation industry learned to overcome. Simply put, unlike a railway, a pipeline, or a highway, an aircraft does not require a continuous physical infrastructure between its point of departure and its destination. Routes could change, aircraft could move between markets, and hubs could rise and decline. If economics justified a service, aviation possessed an extraordinary ability to find another way through. Before 2022, for nearly a decade at Russian AirBridgeCargo Airlines, I watched that principle operate from inside one of the most geographically ambitious cargo networks in the The post How Closed Airspace Threatens U.S. Military Mobility Across Eurasia appeared first on War on the Rocks.