Instead, the right question is: What is the likely impact on Soviet military capabilities of providing greater access to strategically significant technology that, while perhaps inferior to the best available in the West, is still vastly superior to that currently possessed by the USSR and its allies?

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In a geostrategic environment where conflict continues to persist between advanced militaries and their substandard adversaries--either rogue states or terror cells--the latter have been forced to develop asymmetric ways of challenging the superior with the inferior.

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