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...ambitious vision, IBM is becoming an unprecedented, one-stop shopping destination to help companies electronically integrate their divisions, as well as suppliers, partners and customers. Not only will it help devise business strategy, redesign and even take over key processes like human resources and finance, it will also deploy hardware and Web-enabled software (from both IBM and others) to make it happen. In some cases IBM will provide the entire system--with the hardware often located far from the customer--as a utility that corporations can buy "just like they buy electricity," as Palmisano has said. Instead of having...
...nations should beef up their arsenals. While most goals were achieved, "they picked the low-hanging fruit," admits a NATO official. The crucial big-ticket items remain: protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; better equipment for command, control, communication and intelligence; better combat support; and the hardware to deploy European soldiers quickly and effectively. It's no coincidence that these are exactly the things the Europeans need for their own E.U. Rapid Reaction Force: 60,000 men, deployable within 60 days and sustainable for a year, to take on general peacekeeping and humanitarian tasks. This time, NATO has given...
Beyond those schemes, U.S. war planners are focused on attacking the delivery systems--missiles, planes and drones--that Iraq might use to deploy chemical and biological weapons. The U.S. Air Force remains profoundly embarrassed by its inability in the 1991 war to destroy a single Scud launcher, despite 2,400 missions aimed at just that. Better satellites, more deadly Apache helicopter gunships and improved--and armed--drones should enable the U.S. to do better should there be a next time...
...dollar costs, meanwhile, will be pretty steep. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week estimated it would cost $9 billion to $13 billion to deploy forces, $6billion to $9 billion a month to prosecute the war and then $5 billion to $7 billion to transport GIs back home. Add a peacekeeping mission that the CBO estimates would cost $1 billion to $4 billion a month, and the total for three months of combat plus five years of occupation would be $272 billion...
...commanders resisted dispatching even the 1,000 Marines in Afghanistan at the time to find bin Laden. Some officers now say that instead of trying to finish the job quickly and with minimal risks last year, the U.S. should have tried to surround bin Laden's lair, deploy troops to seal off the Pakistani border and wait until spring to attack. Even then, Pentagon officials say, bin Laden might still have slipped through their grasp...