Word: arraying
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...help accomplish this goal, organizers are offering an array of lectures by scholars from Harvard and other universities, including Princeton, Alyea said...
...Lobby is under siege. A cascade of anti-AIPAC scholarship has chronicled the alleged power of pro-Israeli special interests to pervert the American national interest. Political action committees in general are under attack by politicians from both parties (AIPAC is not a PAC, but it controls an impressive array of PACs). And while The Lobby has always found its most receptive audience in Congress, the legislative branch's ability and willingness to influence American foreign policy is in rapid decline. Congress may still be browbeaten into large aid packages, but an executive branch less susceptible to AIPAC pressure will...
...real technological marvels in the U.S. missile array are the sea- launched Tomahawk cruise missiles that smashed Iraqi air-defense systems early in the war. Packed with advanced electronics and several different guidance systems, they are essentially flying computers capable of sailing through the goalposts on a football field from a range of several hundred miles. They can also perform dizzying acrobatics, as witnessed by U.S. reporters who, before they were ousted from Iraq, watched with amazement as a Tomahawk streaked below their hotel windows and made a pair of swooping 90 degrees turns to avoid the Al Rasheed...
...biggest uncertainties before the war started was how the Patriot system would fare. The antimissile missile is guided by a sophisticated phased-array radar consisting of more than 5,000 radar antenna elements that can detect and track 100 targets at a time and follow any given one far more rapidly than the rotating cone of conventional radar. But the system had never been tested against a Scud...
...problem and the emergence of new collective security arrangements that would calm the tempestuous region. The darkest prognoses foresee a Lebanon-like partitioning of Iraq and Jordan and a fueling of nationalist and Islamic extremism that would threaten Western interests and perhaps even bring down moderate Arab regimes. The array of possibilities is bewildering even to those who are leading the war effort. "Some sort of planning needs to be done," conceded Defense Secretary Dick Cheney while appearing before the House Armed Services Committee last December. "Everybody's been so busy dealing with the crisis of the moment that there...