From The Los Angeles Times: “If past is precedent, argues Benjamin Works, executive director of the Strategic Issues Research Institute, a military think tank in Arlington, Va., the phases of the moon would dictate precise timing. The air campaigns over Iraq in 1991, as well as those over Kosovo in Yugoslavia and over Afghanistan, all began on nights when the waning moon didn’t rise until 4 a.m. That provided cover for aircraft that might otherwise have been silhouetted against the moon. The next such phase will begin about Feb. 26 and continue for about 12 days.”
Author: Peter Maass
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.
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