Defense Issues, Volume 11American Forces Information Service, 1996 |
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... opportunity to promote regional trust, cooperation and security, and we seized that opportunity last summer at Williamsburg, Va., when I hosted the 33 defense leaders of these nations at the first Defense Ministerial of the Americas. By ...
... opportunity to promote regional trust, cooperation and security, and we seized that opportunity last summer at Williamsburg, Va., when I hosted the 33 defense leaders of these nations at the first Defense Ministerial of the Americas. By ...
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... opportunity to see it, but I want to tell you if you want to have pride in something that your military is doing, and doing well, and doing something that really has not ever been done before just like that — if you ever have an opportunity ...
... opportunity to see it, but I want to tell you if you want to have pride in something that your military is doing, and doing well, and doing something that really has not ever been done before just like that — if you ever have an opportunity ...
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... opportunity, and will take that opportunity, to demonstrate and develop advances in epidemiologic surveillance and the newest use of telemedicine cubed in that theater. □mmmhmm^b No matter where you sit within the military health ...
... opportunity, and will take that opportunity, to demonstrate and develop advances in epidemiologic surveillance and the newest use of telemedicine cubed in that theater. □mmmhmm^b No matter where you sit within the military health ...
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... opportunity and our zero-tolerance drug-use policies. My goal is to have zero tolerance for sexual harassment and fraternization as well. We are making significant strides in that regard. Obviously, our cultural change presents a ...
... opportunity and our zero-tolerance drug-use policies. My goal is to have zero tolerance for sexual harassment and fraternization as well. We are making significant strides in that regard. Obviously, our cultural change presents a ...
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... opportunities from defense conversion to space exploration to prefabricated housing. The commission's activities ... opportunity to build a zone of stability in a region once destabilized by Cold War tensions. In the Americas, as in ...
... opportunities from defense conversion to space exploration to prefabricated housing. The commission's activities ... opportunity to build a zone of stability in a region once destabilized by Cold War tensions. In the Americas, as in ...
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Page 16 - In order for this program to succeed, both the Administration and the Congress must provide sustained bipartisan support for the stockpile stewardship program over the next decade and beyond. I am committed to working with the Congress to ensure this support.
Page 16 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. I am honored to have this opportunity to appear before you.
Page 13 - ... believe there also is a tremendous basis for consensus, and it is in that spirit that I come before you today. How best to handle the dangers and opportunities of the post-cold war era has been exhaustively studied by the Department of Defense. Our strategy calls for a force structure that will be capable of fighting and winning two nearly simultaneous major regional conflicts, and conducting a wide range of other military operations.
Page 13 - The NMD Ground-based radar is an X-band. phased array radar that leverages heavily off developments achieved by the THAAD GBR program. By taking advantage of the work already completed in the TMD arena, BMDO has been able to reduce the expected development cost of the GBR by approximately $70 million. In 1998 the GBR prototype, developed by Raytheon, will be fabricated at the US Kwajalein Atoll to begin testing to resolve critical issues related to discrimination, target object map, kill assessment,...
Page 16 - It is important to note that this cooperative program is also funded within the Joint TMD program element. Cruise Missile Defense. Many TMD sensors, BMC3, and weapons also have an effective capability to counter the growing land-attack cruise missile threat. In particular, the lower-tier PAC-3, Navy Area Defense, and MEADS systems operate in the same battlespace and will have significant capability against the cruise missile threat. In addition, the NMD BMC3 architecture will be designed to promote...
Page 17 - Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, constitute the immediate military staff of the Secretary of Defense. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the principal military advisers to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense.
Page 16 - MEADS systems operate in the same battlespace and will have significant capability against the cruise missile threat. In addition, the NMD BMC3 architecture will be designed to promote interoperability and evolution to a common BMC3 system for ballistic and cruise missile defense. The Department also has a number of initiatives outside the BMD program to improve the ability of US forces to detect and defeat cruise missiles "in theater" or launched against the United States.