Looking backward, it seems the modern defense industry was a response to the confluence of four unusual trends.
Those arguments are reasonable enough, but they neglect the vital role that U.S. economic strength played in sustaining the modern defense industry.
So sophisticated are the technologies involved and so backwards is the non-military sector of the Soviet economy that the obvious immediate beneficiary of an up-to-date microelectronics manufacturing capability is certain to be the relatively modern defense industrial base.
Defense planners had failed to consider the implications of the proliferation of advanced surface-to-air defense systems and modern (late 20th-century) fighter aircraft.
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.
Presidential power is insufficient to defense our economic space, to grow a new modern economy for independent and free people.
So he organized his friends, the sons and daughters of other farmers in the area, and formed the New Israeli Guardsmen, named after the original Guardsmen - the first Jewish self-defense organization in the Land of Israel in the modern era, which was formed a hundred years ago.
The defense industry has spent half of the biggest military boom in modern times getting ready for a collapse.
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The Web series is being filmed by Radical Media, the production company behind The Fog of War, the Oscar-winning 2003 documentary about the moral complexities of modern warfare, as told by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.
"This policy review, known as the Strategic Defense Review, placed considerable emphasis on the need to communicate to maintain modern forces for a modern world, " Smith said.
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Because each theory has its downsides, many commentators, myself included, have proposed a third way: a hybrid system, designed for the realities of modern international terrorism a new system that would address the needs to protect our classified defense secrets and to assure Americans, as well as our allies, that we are detaining the right people.
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