Loren Thompson
Loren Thompson
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Cutting-edge military technology today is very similar to cutting-edge commercial technology. It's not clear we can control any of these dual-use technologies to stop them from reaching enemy hands.
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They're using them at a very rapid pace in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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It's hard to overstate how important this technology is to future U.S. military plans.
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Existing levels of demand are driving the market toward one provider of launch services.
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This base closure is the roar that moused, ... It started out being very ambitious, but ended up being modest.
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It's time for the administration to do a fundamental reassessment of what it is that we are willing to do in order to stabilize Iraq. The United States needs to draw a line in terms of how deep it is willing to be drawn into Iraqi domestic politics.
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There has been a lot of talk about the appropriate head count for the National Guard. But the actual number of National Guard soldiers is far less important than how well-equipped each of those soldiers is.
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We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.
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What happened here is that the technology enthusiasts got far beyond what the laws of physics would allow.
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The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy.
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You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.
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We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.
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There is a huge demand for spare parts that only Sikorsky can meet. Without the Teamsters, the company can't maintain a coherent production schedule.
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What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.