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...there, risking their lives for our country,” said Jacquelyn Chou ’07, a student attending the event. Both Nosal and Downer are familiar with the military life. Nosal grew up in Pensacola, Fl., which has one of the largest naval air bases in the country, as well as being home to branches of the marines, navy, and airforce. Downer’s father fought in Vietnam and, upon his return to the U.S., had to deal with the scorn of his fellow countrymen, Downer said. “It’s easy...
...Somalia, which boasts the longest coastline in Africa, is no easy place to monitor. Combined Task Force 150, a joint naval unit that includes forces from the U.S., Germany, France and sometimes Britain and Italy, already patrols the Gulf of Aden and the waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. The reduced number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden is a "side effect of Operation Enduring Freedom," says Commander Dirk Gross at the German Defense Ministry in Berlin. Commander Jeff Breslau...
...future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism. "Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland-and time to prepare," the President said during a jaunt up to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Heavy spending has been a cornerstone of Bush's 9/11 response, and he geared up for a new threat by asking Congress for $7.1 billion in emergency funding for vaccines and antiviral medicines-even more than the record amount the Senate had approved in September...
...what it did in Katrina on the current budget model it's on," says Stephen Flynn, a former Coast Guard commander who is now an expert in homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Its assets are falling apart," he says. Of the 41 major naval fleets in the world, the Coast Guard's is the 39th oldest, behind even Pakistan. It is in the middle of a massive, 25-year modernization project, but Flynn says that's too little, too late...
...Vision 2025, it will cost $2.5 to $2.8 billion a year, compared with JAXA's current budget of $1.8 billion. Sekigawa doubts such increases will find much political backing. "The government doesn't seem that interested in space at the moment," he says. Johnson-Freese of the U.S. Naval War College sees no evidence that Japan will commit the resources needed to chase China in space: "Technologically, everyone understands that the Japanese could pretty much do whatever they want, but it's the politics that...