Word: ralston
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...thinks today's military are deployed too often for too long and are buying too many weapons at too high a price. The appointment of Marine General John Sheehan, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine to serve as the nation's top military officer and could spur serious change. The 6-ft. 2-in. Bostonian and decorated Vietnam vet has riled the Air Force by questioning costly new warplanes, unnerved the Navy by doubting the value of carriers...
...YORK CITY: In a discovery which could radically change the way we view the universe, a team of physicists say they've discovered evidence suggesting that the universe may have a "top" and "bottom." The proposal, by John Ralston of the University of Kansas and Borge Nodland of the University of Rochester, flies smack in the face of Einstein's theory of relativity, which posits that the universe is uniform in all directions. The new evidence indicates that the polarization, or direction of oscillation, of radio waves emanating from the constellation Sextans is different from radio waves emanating from constellations...
...make their case, the generals and admirals needed to do some creative salesmanship while avoiding some basic questions, like Will they work? Are they worth it? Do we need them? And so it is that General Joseph Ralston, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been presenting lawmakers with charts showing the deployment of warplanes around the world and the threat they represent to American security. What Ralston doesn't point out is that this ominous global collection of nearly 6,000 advanced warplanes includes those of Britain, France, Canada--everyone except the U.S. Nor does he mention...
...only publicly available Pentagon report on future threats to U.S. warplanes, finds that America's most likely foes--Iran, Iraq and North Korea--have only about 100 front-line warplanes among them. That total, the Navy projects, will climb to 120 by 2005. Lawmakers are irritated by Ralston's apparent sleight-of-threat. "There's been a lack of candor in the whole process," complains Representative Curt Weldon, the hawkish Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Committee on National Security's research-and-development panel. "We haven't been given a threat that warrants these programs," he told Time...
...self-licking ice cream cone." First, lower the plane's cost by building more of them, then sell the extras overseas. The problem is that the Air Force says it needs the plane to counter, in part, U.S. airplanes that have been sold overseas. Then, of course, General Ralston could add the F-22 to his chart of potentially hostile foreign warplanes. Says former Navy rear admiral and aviator Eugene Carroll Jr. of the private Center for Defense Information: "We're in an arms race--with ourselves...