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...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...
...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...
...Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Ford plans to equip the bulk of its 2002 Explorer models (due out, by the usual car-company calculus, in 2001) with Michelins. The rest will be Goodyears. Or Continentals. Or even Firestones...
...heard. As evidence, they point to the fact that Jackson himself often seemed overwhelmed by the technical aspects of the case, remarking to The New York Times earlier this year that he would simply follow the lead of the Justice Department since "there's no way I can equip myself to do a better job than they have done...