Among the handful of big military contractors that survived the post-Cold War consolidation of the defense sector, none has performed better than General Dynamics.
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Garner will need all his charm and resolve to referee the tug-of-war between the departments of Defense and State for influence over the reconstruction process.
"Defendants now renege on those promises and press an act of war defense, " the lawyers wrote.
Today marks the publication of an extraordinary new book on the subject, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terror, by former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
For a brief period after the Gulf War, the legions of defense critics who have long maintained that U.S. weapon systems would not work were shamed into silence.
Confronted with the facts provided by the Waller, Smith, and Glenn courts-martial, and with the testimony of a dozen more soldier witnesses who had followed Riley, Administration officials, military officers, and pro-war journalists launched a vigorous campaign in defense of the Army and the war.
It also includes a trade bill with Vietnam (where the president is going later this week) and the confirmation of a new secretary of defense (in a time of war).
It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against an enemy.
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In the fall of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson broke with this tradition by nominating Robert McNamara, his Secretary of Defense and the chief strategist of the war in Vietnam.
For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.
He is a prominent criminal defense attorney who has accused prosecutors of turning their war on crime into a war on the defense bar.
But that's been buried under the headlines about McCain's ardent defense of the war.
Douglas Feith, a longtime friend of the Center and former Undersecretary of Defense, signed copies of his best-selling memoir War and Decision.
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Paul said last month Republicans "need to be the party that is reluctant to go to war, " and the strong national defense he supports should be for "prevention of war, " not for intervening in conflicts around the globe.
McCain was the more concise and philosophical, providing a broad defense of the Iraq war.
U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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"Gulf War illness isn't some imaginary syndrome, " said Ken Robinson, the senior intelligence officer for the initial Department of Defense investigation into Gulf War illness in 1996-97.
The U.S. program has been kept alive with backing from powerful pols such as Alaska's ranking Senator Ted Stevens, a World War II veteran and chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood together in the Rose Garden for the last time Thursday in a news conference that was largely a defense of the Iraq war, an event that has shaped their common legacy.
For one thing, we have to also look at how we spend the revenues we do take in, and decide whether spending tens of billions of dollars a year fighting the War on Drugs, or hundreds of billions of dollars a year funding the Defense Department, are really ways we want to spend money.
But failing to invest sufficiently in our defense capabilities in time of war is reckless in the extreme.
He was responsible for organizing the Mannerheim Line of defense against Russia during World War II and was president of Finland from 1944-1946.
"The goal is to make all roles available so long as we can meet the standards of the war fighter, " said a defense official.
Moshe Dayan, Minister of Defense during the Six Day War, foresaw the delicacy of the situation when Israel was in the process of capturing the city from the Jordanian Legion.
There were also copies of the resolution he would introduce calling for redeployment of U.S. forces, and a thick packet including correspondence between Murtha and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about the war.
The judge in this case may not allow a defense on the legality of the war.
The Act merged the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (NME) headed by the Secretary of Defense.
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