The Bush-era program would have placed ground-based interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic to counter any long-range nuclear threat posed by Iran.
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However, a fourth bonus-point try eluded Bath, and Quins ended the game on a positive when Williams finished off a long-range counter-attack before Evans added the conversion.
"Concentrating on one particular kind of perspective, that is a faith-based perspective, leaves out of the counter a great range of perspectives that could be rather useful, " he said.
Thus, the projection of military power could become hostage to the ability to counter long-range systems even as U.S. forces begin to move into a theater of operations and against an opponent.