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Pentagon sources have told CNN that the missile a U.S. F-16 fired on Iraq on Tuesday did indeed miss the radar station by some 11 miles and land in a civilian reservoir, as the Iraqis have claimed. How did a sophisticated radar-tracking missile hit water and not its target? TIME National Security correspondent Douglas Waller says that the Iraqi operator would have merely sent "a squirt" of radar: enough to set off the British planes' alarms but not enough for the F-16's missile to draw a good bead on the source...
...China? The simple answer is there is no simple answer, just ambiguous facts. Like dual-use exports for civilian or military purpose, China's behavior can be benign or malign, better or not good enough. There's plenty to worry about if you're worried about China...
...controversy does open to fresh scrutiny a very difficult issue: To what extent do all U.S. sales of dual-use technology (items for legitimate civilian purposes that can also be turned to military use) help China modernize its military and improve its nuclear and missile arsenal? The question is hardly new, and scientists have been arguing back and forth for years whether China should be allowed to buy a whole array of items, from supercomputers and centrifuges to clean rooms and ground-positioning systems. "They don't just want our hardware," says Henry Sokolski, a former Bush proliferation specialist. "They...
...sale of sexually explicit magazines on military bases. "The decision shows that the Court continues to give great deference to what the military calls its need to maintain good order and discipline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The military works under a different set of rules from civilian society, and for the most part the Court still respects that." And putting saltpeter in troopers' food is probably unconstitutional...
Richardson was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, earlier this year...