In the modern age of American national defense, if you wore the uniform of any of the armed forces you deserve to be called a veteran and receive the gratitude and recognition of a grateful nation.

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What may have held that rate steady in an age of decline was the aggressive marketing of handguns to women for self-defense, which is how a great many guns are marketed.

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"The age of the unmanned military is upon us, " says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute.

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For defense lawyers of a certain vintage, the early 2000s were a veritable golden age for accounting fraud cases.

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"In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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