Word: attacks
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...evidence that would lead reasonable people to believe that this was potentially an act of terrorism," Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, senior GOP member of the intelligence committee, said on Tuesday. A Senator from Texas told Obama the same thing. "As more and more facts surrounding the Fort Hood attack surface," Republican Senator John Cornyn said in a letter to Obama that was released on Tuesday, "it looks increasingly probable that the alleged attacker, Major Nidal Hasan, heeded [Internet-based] terrorist calls to violence, compelled by a fanatical religious ideology." Cornyn stressed that while Islam isn't to blame...
...scope and scale of the attacks has not abated despite the international opprobrium and outcry," Mulvenon says. "It's a serious problem that at the moment we don't have a solution to, because our inability to attribute the source of the attack fundamentally undermines our efforts at deterrence. If you can't identify the attacker, you can't deter them...
...conflict. That means conducting so-called asymmetrical warfare, aimed at using the U.S.'s dependence on technology as a weapon: for example, targeting America's network of space satellites or developing missiles that could sink U.S. aircraft carriers. For China's generals, though, of all the asymmetrical methods of attack available to them, cyberwar presents a uniquely effective - and cost-effective - means of neutralizing the U.S advantage. "They recognized the importance as far back as the early '90s," says Mulvenon, "and they now have a major advantage, a weapon like no other that allows them to reach out and touch...
Penn committed 10 service errors in the match, and the Crimson exhibited strong net play, out-blocking the Quakers 12-6. Harvard also held sizeable advantages in both kills, 82-50 and digs, 98-75. The Crimson sealed the victory in the fifth set by avoiding any attack errors...
...pivotal moment that best epitomized the Crimson’s desire to attack came in the second period, when Harvard “responded” three times in a span of two minutes...