Dan Goure
Dan Goure
Dan Gouré is the Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a thinktank based in Arlington, Virginia, and an analyst on national security and military issues for NBC. He has worked as an Adjunct Professor in the National Defense University's Homeland Security program under the SNSEE since 2003. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's advisory board...
steroids
ADT on steroids is what this thing is.
including private
These organizations want to serve, including private companies.
accounts almost bank denied economic except far imports particular tight trade worst
They're denied almost all imports except under tight control. They don't really trade with the world any more in any particular way. Their bank accounts are frozen. So on economic grounds, we've essentially done the worst we can do with Iraq, and so far they've survived.
coming number placed point simply stress
With the number of units available, they are coming to the point where they simply were not going to have enough brigades. There is a recognition that the number has to come down because of the stress that was being placed on the force.
fighter
The F-22 does more than any other fighter has ever done.