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...crew members winged their way back from China, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent them a congratulatory message. "You put your lives at risk," he told them, "so that the citizens of a grateful nation can live their lives in peace and freedom." Which raises a key question: Is it really necessary, with all the Pentagon's technological wizardry, to dispatch repeatedly two dozen of America's youngest and finest into the teeth of the Chinese dragon...
...Most important, the U.S. military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles?UAVs to the military, drones to everybody else?is increasing in sophistication and capability. Rumsfeld, conducting an exhaustive review of how the U.S. wages war, is convinced the time has come to rely more on cheap drones. Last year Congress?concerned over the American public's skittishness about U.S. casualties?told the Pentagon it wants one-third of U.S. bombing missions flown by unmanned warplanes...
...video was chilling. On Friday afternoon, after the U.S. flight crew was safely back in the U.S., Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began a reporters' briefing with a frightening recording made by a U.S. EP-3E crew flying near China in January. The video image showed a Chinese F-8 jet hotdogging and harassing the American aircraft. Flying on the very edge of controllability, the F-8 pilot slowed his fighter down enough to dance alongside the U.S. plane. At one moment the nose fell dramatically, almost banging into the U.S. plane. U.S. officials say the pilot could very well...
They did change their minds on that one. Maybe there's more going on than meets a cynic's eye? Let Defense Secretary Rumsfeld explain the decision to suspend missile talks with N. Korea...
...Donald Rumsfeld] If rogue nations didn't have missiles, what would we need our expensive space-based missile-defense system...