Word: weaponeering
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...ability to write songs that creep up on you slowly, insinuating themselves with their skillfully painted character sketches and wistful tales with an unexpected sting in their tail: “If I Were a Weapon” concludes, “Well, if I am that weapon / I am pointing now at you / So just put down the hostage and we’ll / Talk it down until we see this through...
...forms a spore resembling a seed. The spore is very rugged, and very persistent. If it?s introduced into the soil in that spore form, it can live for years, even decades. That?s the form it would probably be take if it were used as a biological weapon - spores introduced into the air via some delivery method...
...about their business. But better to err on the side of caution, even if that slows a return to normalcy. And he took great care to warn Americans against turning their anxiety into hostility towards Americans of other faiths and cultures, insisting that America's diversity was a weapon in the battle against terrorism...
...even if Nunn-Lugar were goldplated, it wouldn't obviate the great lesson of Sept. 11: you don't need so-called weapons of mass destruction to devastate a society. A few airplanes will do. "That's why it was so brilliant," says a Pentagon official. A senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney falls back on football metaphors. The Administration remains worried about the need to defend against "the long bomb"--a chemical, biological or nuclear attack. But just as crucial, this aide argues, is to protect against "short yardage"--attacks on bridges, tunnels, power plants, chemical-storage facilities...
...country would provide a daunting challenge for any U.S. ground troops. A captivating land of high mountains, deep valleys and wide plains, Afghanistan is, in all its dimensions, made for guerrilla warfare. It's a place where knowledge of the terrain is the most important weapon any army can have...