Word: deployments
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...shot down 34 out of 42 test missiles it has targeted. Critics contend the tests don't replicate real-world conditions, because the timing and trajectory of the target "incoming" missiles are known beforehand to those trying to shoot them down. These test "attacking" missiles also don't deploy accompanying decoys designed to confuse any interceptors. Pentagon officials say today's system is needed because rogue states might develop their missiles in secret, and fire them at the U.S. without testing. Each of those questionable assumptions makes it less likely that the missiles would work, but missile-defense boosters...
...material development," I heard him say four months ago, adding that Tibetans understand that for their material well-being, it is of benefit to be part of the People's Republic. The only important thing, he pointed out, was how its rulers use the train and whether they deploy it for compassionate purposes...
Alas poor Harry. whatever you think about the wisdom of mounting a complex operation to deploy one inexperienced 23-year-old soldier to the frontline of a controversial war; whether your instincts are royalist or republican; if you are disturbed by the spectacle of Britain's usually tenacious media bowing to the wishes of palace, military and government, and suppressing a story - no matter what your response to the Afghanistan adventuring of Britain's warrior prince, it's hard not to feel sorry...
...CARE, team-building is a core requirement, not just an HR target. Teams come in two flavors: longer-lasting country teams that run ongoing programs in nearly 70 nations, and 20 emergency-response teams that can rapidly deploy to a crisis for six to eight weeks. Disaster teams are staffed with specialists in logistics, information management, government relations and other disciplines vital to any relief effort...
...Dannatt took a different view. "In deciding to deploy [the Prince] to Afghanistan, it was my judgment that with an understanding with the media not to broadcast his whereabouts, the risk in doing so was manageable," said the General. Dannatt and advisers on the ground now consider that risk is unacceptable. "I would never want to put someone else's life in danger when they have to sit next to a bullet magnet," said Harry in an interview recorded in Afghanistan and only released after his whereabouts were revealed...