India's Rapid Deployment Force manned roadblocks outside a number of airports, while guards patrolled among passengers, some of whom had their bags checked six times on domestic flights.

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Okay, so what if the strategy sounds more like a rapid deployment force, discussed by the Pentagon for years, than the Powell doctrine of maximum force used in the Gulf war?

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For example, both the Marine commandos and the army's parachute regiment are supposed to serve the new Joint Rapid Deployment Force, but they never train together and, by tradition, despise each other.

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