John Pike
John Pike
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Risk-averse American decision-makers would have to be focused on the possibility that the Chinese will beat us back to the moon. It would be a reasonable worry from the political perspective,
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As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time.
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The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.
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They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.
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It depends on how many nodes you're talking about. A minimal survivable radio network for emergency crews, the improvement of state emergency-management operation centers ? these kind of steps are feasible. But when people start talking about a nationwide survivable network, I tell them, 'Welcome to what's called the real world.' No one is going to pay for such a thing.
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You could certainly question whether an amphibious vehicle is the most appropriate ... to be driving around in a desert.
certainly intercept
It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time,
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It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time. If we're talking about incoming nuclear missiles, that imperfect defense is going to simply be a false sense of security.
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Private companies are in business to make money,
order save
In order to save appearances, they didn't want it to be unanimous,
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It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians,
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It has been a long time since I have not been able to get a look at the cockpit as I get on a plane.
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The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.
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It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower.