Word: pentagon
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Sheehan, who headed United Press International's Vietnam bureau from 1962 to 1964 and obtained the Pentagon Papers as a New York Times reporter, said yesterday that until Vietnam, American wars had always been thought of as crusades characterized by "messianic rhetoric...
JUST in case you wondered what the Pentagon could ever possibly do to top the $600 hammer, the New York Times ran a front-page story on April 9 about the Navy's newest and most advanced submarine defense system--the bottlenosed dolphin. In a clandestine program expanded under the Reagan Administration, the U.S. Navy has spent close to $30 million over the past four years trying to put these highly intelligent marine mammals to military...
That vessel was launched in May 1983 and went into service in late 1984, according to Jane's. The Pentagon reference book Soviet Military Power says the Mike vessel was not declared operational until...
Jane's and other Pentagon reference books describe the Mike as a submarine that "seems to be a test vehicle for new design and propulsion features...
...sure, the costs of this military buildup have been immense on both sides, and in the end this may be a Pyrrhic "victory" for the U.S. The money which the Pentagon has consumed coupled with general American consumerism, has left little for the levels of investment needed to maintain American economic--and thus, over the long term, diplomatic and military--hegemony...