Word: aims
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Unfortunately, Sperry looks at ethical questions from a misguided perspective, and he overestimates the ability of science to solve even technical problems. "History and common observation," he writes, "confirm that nothing is more proficient than science at prescribing what ought to prevail in order to achieve almost any defined aim...The same applies in regard to ultimate aims...
...West European partner that would detach itself from the U.S., it would help them impose a solution in Eastern Europe." He wondered if the SS-20 program was simply the mechanistic reflex of the Soviet military establishment or part of a longer-term political strategy. If Moscow's aim is political blackmail, he said, then Western Europe should begin to brace for a period of high East-West tension after the deployment of NATO's own intermediate-range missiles...
...Strategic Studies, only eight of the 18 warheads on the French land-based missiles would be likely to reach Soviet targets in time of war. Britain and France's 144 submarine-launched missiles are not accurate enough to hit hardened missile silos and are too few to aim at such standard military targets as airbases. The European warheads exist for their deterrent value; they could destroy Soviet cities in retaliation for an attack on Britain or France. Says Colonel Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "French and British nuclear weapons are essentially weapons...
...documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception appeared to accuse retired Army General William Westmoreland of being one of the principal figures behind a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence." The alleged aim was to underreport enemy troop strength and create the illusion that the U.S. was winning the Viet Nam War. After the January broadcast, the angered general turned down the network's offer of 15 minutes' rebuttal time and last September slapped CBS with a $120 million libel suit. That suit is generating its own prickly set of constitutional complications...
...Ryan's second, Mills took aim; he swung, but the ball got through...