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...growth is going down. That's stagflation, which we saw in the '70s, and it really ties the Fed's hands in terms of what it can do. It's way too early to sound the alarm on that just yet. But for the markets, it's on their radar screen...
...Last week the second President Bush took his first whack at the problem: 24 U.S. and British warplanes slammed five Iraqi radar and communications centers that had become a danger to the planes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm. The military objectives were easy enough to accomplish. Pentagon officials believe the target sites to the south of Baghdad were nicely "degraded," and all planes returned safely to base...
...request by the military to undertake what the Pentagon sees as a force-protection action. Probably as part of an effort to test the resolve the new administration in Washington, Iraqi air defenses had in recent weeks begun aggressively "painting" allied warplanes patrolling the "no-fly" zone with radar signals that enable surface-to-air missile strikes. The commanders advised the president to order the strikes, in order to avoid the potential for a U.S. pilot to be shot down. And that certainly provided President Bush a welcome opportunity to show Saddam that he would respond forcefully to any provocation...
...course a new generation of weapons will have to be based on the existing infrastructure. You can't simply revolutionize the military across the board. So with aircraft, for example, they're talking about the first unmanned planes being those that would be used against enemy radar, which is usually the first wave of an air campaign. The job is well-suited to an unmanned craft, because it diminishes the risk in a simple air-to-ground mission where the target's location is known...
...avoid offending the Europeans (on whose soil some of the radar components of the system currently envisaged would have to be sited), Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted Sunday that Washington would proceed only after extensive consultations with its allies. But what does "consultation" mean? Powell said it meant listening to their views and allowing them to guide U.S. actions, at the same time as working to persuade them to accept the missile defense principle being pursued by Washington. Officials around Rumsfeld saw "consultation" as being just what their boss had done in Europe - particularly his offer to help...