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Costs a bundle and can't fly: dubious weapons systems reap a Bush budget bonanza. (Gazette).

American Prospect, The,  March, 2002  by Vest, Jason

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FOR THE PAST DECADE, NUMEROUS career military officers and defense analysts--whose politics run the gamut from left to right--have held that U.S. combat in the twenty-first century probably won't mean grand, conventional battles with large standing armies. And September n suggests that these experts are right: Rather than a "rogue state" raining down ballistic missiles on us, or hordes of Red Chinese flexing regionally hegemonic muscle, low-tech operatives of an unorthodox army turned airplanes into bombs.

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