Word: arsenals
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...concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses?the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That may be true...
...mutually assured destruction,” which has guided American nuclear policy for so long, still applies in a world with many nuclear powers. Although the president’s overtures to Russia—who is eager to have a stake in any defense strategy lest its rusting arsenal become irrelevant—is laudable, his planned abrogation of the 1972 treaty is both alarming and provocative. An even greater worry is Bush’s unconcern for the Chinese reaction to his missile defense plans. And we doubt Bush’s assurances that a large-scale missile...
China is one of the most likely targets for the defenses that Bush has proposed, as its small arsenal of nuclear warheads could be nearly completely countered. Russia’s arsenal is far too vast to be defended against, but China—which would fear an American first strike without the ability to retaliate—would have a strong incentive to build up its arsenal in order to overwhelm the defenses. A renewed arms buildup could be severely destabilizing, and leaving China out of this process only courts further tension...
...American anti-missile system. the best defense against missile attacks would therefore be the small, local shields that are explicitly allowed under the 1972 treaty. Such shields would be able to guard against a few missiles from terrorists or rogue states but could not be used against an arsenal such as China’s. But they would not require immense expenditures and have a far higher chance of producing a working, reliable defense for Americans...
...retain some measure of nuclear deterrent against Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react to missile defense as a further attempt by Washington to "contain" China...