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Analysis of Pentagon “Semantics”

January 18, 2005 :: Washington Times :: News

Pamela Hass of United Press International writes on the Pentagon’s “semantics” of the past several months as regards formal deployment of the ballistic missile defense system. Hass correctly notes that for many months prior to September 2004, both the administration and the Missile Defense Agency indicated that some initial capabilities would be operational in 2004, and possibly by October of 2004. What appear to have been a number of delays have been followed upon by some level of ambiguity as to whether, if at all, the missile defense system would be fully operational, there being no formal declaration of its deployment, and in fact indications from both Secretary Rumsfeld and MDA head General Obering in the past month have been that there may never be a formal declaration. The most recent pronouncements have been that there currently exists some very limited capability to defend against ballistic missiles. (Article)

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