This is the result of increasingly strident West German opposition to replacement of the obsolescing Lance.

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If we are lucky, we will be left with a far-less-resilient "Dyad" equipped with obsolescing, untested weapons.

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And a succession of needed replacements for obsolescing weapon systems will remain right where they are: on the drawing boards.

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The question is: What do you do with the billions of dollars worth of obsolescing circuit-switched equipment in the ground?

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And, even if they were not obsolescing, weapons designed for the Cold War may be ill-suited and incredible as deterrents to today's threats.

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Yet, President Obama wants to foreclose even the replacement of your obsolescing weapons with one that promises to provide a safe and reliable deterrent in the absence of nuclear testing.

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In short, despite the welcome recognition of the need for credible sub-strategic nuclear deterrent forces for the foreseeable future, the actual decisions taken at the NATO summit set the stage for inaction on replacement of obsolescing systems and for new negotiations that will make it problematic even to retain the aging ones now deployed.

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