Word: controllers
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...applications--to China have long had security lapses. In 1994 McDonnell Douglas sold China machine tools for a civilian machine center in Beijing. The company learned later that they had been diverted to a military complex nearly 800 miles away. A report by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control found that from 1988 to 1998 "a large and steady flow of strategic equipment went to China with the U.S. Commerce Department's blessing." Among the items sold to China legally: computers nominally for the Chinese Academy of Sciences that could be used in nuclear-fusion projects...
...they seek the kind of credibility that a truly modern military brings. Capitol Hill rhetoric aside, China doesn't covet nuclear missiles so it can lob them at Los Angeles. It wants them so that it can be a legitimate player on the international stage, a nation fully in control of its own military destiny. So, as its entrepreneurs have embraced StarTacs and Yahoo!, Beijing's generals now want to trade their antique weaponry and cold war tactics for the PlayStation power they see in NATO's arsenal...
...first time since the People's Revolution succeeded 50 years ago, Beijing is finally struggling to recast its military priorities. The process began in the early 1990s, at the very top of the armed forces, when politicians pushed the military to streamline its command-and-control structure. The old model for communications, logistics and war fighting was an astonishingly inefficient hybrid that mixed the ideological militarism of the Long March with old-style Soviet doctrines about how to fight on land. Instead the Chinese are toying with a far more flexible-force structure, one that would rely more on highly...
...strict capitalists among Freeport's shareholders might be happier were that the case. The company's stock last week closed at about $14, down from $36 three years ago. Low copper and gold prices, which the company obviously can't control, clearly have hurt; but some shareholders also complain that despite a cost-cutting campaign dubbed "Hunker Down and Go," Moffett's 1998 compensation of $4.5 million plus stock options is out of line with Freeport's sagging performance...
...drop down hospital chimneys breeds contradictions. The physician's--and presumably the peacekeeper's--principle, "First, do no harm," loses to the general's "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." Everyone expects mistakes and stupidities in war; but when you make war by remote control, a superpower ex machina raining destruction without concomitant risk to self, then your invulnerability (the arrogance of powers unwilling to pay war's reciprocal price in blood) tends to subvert the moral basis of the exercise--and, incidentally, to magnify the importance of errors. Further, the use of computerized high...