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His enthusiasm for new weaponry never went into the stratosphere.
Much of the Middle East depends on Western handouts, and budgets are strained keeping up with the appetite for new weaponry and the pressure from Europe and the United States to buy more and more arms.
Some of that swing reflected quirks in government accounting, but the Commerce Department reported a significant increase in military spending, not for new weaponry but for various support functions, including research, weapons repair and personnel services.
Led by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley (D), 10 senators, including five potential Democratic presidential contenders (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala D. Harris, Sherrod Brown and Kirsten Gillibrand), have introduced legislation to bar any funding for new weaponry that would violate the INF Treaty.
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And industry was essential to the production of new weaponry that shaped the character and deadliness of both wars.
Less than $4 billion is devoted to procuring equipment, on the grounds that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has not yet completed his defense review and so cannot yet propose his own plan for acquiring new weaponry.
Much of that cost has been for high-tech surveillance equipment, new weaponry -- including coastal patrol boats -- and a $312 million contract for a security network.
But it would make sense for him to use his new weaponry through terrorist cutouts.
No. Greider describes the headlong development of sophisticated new weaponry designed for a nonexistent enemy as a form of cannibalism: new weapons not only cost a fortune to develop, build and, especially, maintain; they render existing, generally state-of-the-art weaponry obsolete.
While I applaud Penhall for exploring the moral maze surrounding new weaponry, I feel that his hero's Damascene conversion comes a little late in the play.
The war is also providing President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a public proving ground — and a showcase to his adversaries — for new, sophisticated weaponry.
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