Word: equiped
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...house cost around $2.8 million to equip, and for Orange the purpose is to discover which products people will...
...There are currently some 18 panels reviewing aspects of military strategy, policy and force development as part of a planned dramatic overhaul designed to equip the U.S. armed forces for the wars of the future. Many of their recommendations are in conflict - and the fact that there's a steady stream of minor leaks to the media has resulted in a frenzy of speculative reporting which has the U.S. scrapping large aircraft carriers the one day, retaining them the next; scrapping manned fighter planes or going ahead with all three costly fighters currently in development; scrapping the ability-to-fight...
...extortion, and administration officials had signaled in March that the Bush team wants to reopen talks on the 1994 agreement under which the U.S. and Japan undertook to provide energy aid and help North Korea build civilian nuclear reactors if the Koreans ended a nuclear program that could equip them with weapons-grade plutonium. Administration officials were unhappy at the level of verification provided for in the treaty, but North Korea may be reluctant to reopen discussion on a done deal. Pyongyang wants to move forward on talks over an agreement to end North Korean missile testing in exchange...
...longer the military superpower that it once was. But such overconfidence in U.S. primacy has already been contradicted by recent developments. In response to Washington's uncompromising stance on the NMD, Russia has begun to test-launch its intercontinental ballistic missiles and it has warned that it will equip its hard-to-detect Topol-M missile with multiple warheads if Washington goes ahead with the NMD system. Although it can scarcely afford to pay its soldiers and although its armed forces are barely a carcass of the old Soviet military machine, Russia can still act like a superpower when...
...Situation Report: The U.S. has committed $1.3 billion to equip and train the Colombian military for a counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas who control more than one third of that country. Because the guerrillas allow massive drug cultivation in their territory, the U.S. justifies the money as part of its war on drugs, and the Colombian government is only to happy to accept since the rebels earn hundreds of millions every year taxing the narco-traffickers. But critics warn the expanded military commitment is simply drawing the U.S. into a quagmire, and point out the poor human rights record...