Loren Thompson
Loren Thompson
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They're (the Emirates) not going to retaliate because they need us. Who is going to protect that little outpost of modernity on the Arabian Peninsula if it isn't us?
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He has always taken the role of a controversial visionary whose job is to articulate a new path forward to people who don't want hear it.
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Part of the story on space radar can't be told because it concerns the most sensitive missions of government satellites.
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The entire Marine force was designed around the concept of amphibious warfare, which is a good deal different from the kind of conflict they're fighting in Iraq today, hundreds of miles from the sea. The Marines are a light force; they kick in the door but they are not supposed to occupy all the rooms.
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Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.
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I think that there's no question that the Air Force is leaning toward US 101 as the solution to the mission.
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The big question going forward is how intensive the military commitment to Iraq remains. If it stays at current levels, then the Army is facing a recruiting challenge every month for years to come.
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Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.
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The British are going to spend billions on this, and they're concerned they won't really understand the technology of what they're buying. They don't want to be treated like a Third World arms dealer. They're saying, ' If you can't trust us, how can we trust you?
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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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What you see in these examples is that the Nunn-McCurdy cost breaches cover a lot of diversity in terms of causes and consequences. To punish programs equally for such different difficulties is not constructive.
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There is a point beyond which it isn't practical to expect so many different things from the same group of people.