Word: deployed
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...Europe, the likely place for employing new military technologies?like pilotless planes or weapons platforms positioned "over the horizon." Since Washington's last thoroughgoing review of its defense policy, its relationship with key allies in Asia has also expanded. Australia showed in East Timor it was prepared to deploy its first-class armed forces in pursuit of regional security; expect Washington to deepen its security ties with Canberra...
...example proves that a C-student (at least a C-student named Bush) could still become President of the United States, will need to get better marks than that if he hopes to persuade skeptical Europeans and Russians to ditch the Cold War arms control framework in order to deploy a hypothetical missile shield against a hypothetical missile threat...
...brief: The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty remains a key legal obstacle to the Bush administration's intention to build a missile shield. In order to deploy the system, Washington would either have to persuade the Russians to renegotiate the treaty or withdraw from it. The Bush team has been trying to persuade both the Russians and European NATO members of the need to move beyond Cold War arms-control agreements in order to deal with the threats of a new century. But the Russians have refused to renegotiate the ABM treaty, and insist that it remains the cornerstone...
...Taken together with signals from the Democrats that they're in no hurry to deploy, it's now a fairly safe bet that while missile defense will remain an article of faith in Washington, it's unlikely to become a reality any time soon...
Overseas concerns may influence just what layers Bush decides to deploy. The land-based plan is the selfish option. Even when expanded to two sites--Alaska and North Dakota, under current plans--the shield would protect only the U.S. and Canada. That would be particularly grating to nations like Britain and Denmark. After all, Washington wants them to permit the U.S. to make modifications to radar on their territory that is required to protect the U.S.--but not them--from missile attack...