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It is difficult to believe that anyone could view Pablo Picasso's great painting Guernica and not be moved. It is not just that the painting is great art. It is one of the most evocative statements about the horrors of war. Perhaps more important still, it is a clear declaration to all who see it
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Date:
6/14/2013
After spending a dozen years fighting enemies that lacked air forces and air defenses, the Pentagon is beginning to focus again on state-based adversaries possessing sizable arsenals. Syria could be an early test case, because influential members of Congress favor creating a no-fly zone over the
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Date:
6/3/2013
The Syrian civil war now threatens to spread to its neighbors. Last Thursday, a Syrian pilot flew his fighter to Jordon. On Friday, Syrian air defenses shot down a Turkish fighter on a training mission over the eastern Mediterranean. Regardless of whether or not the plane had strayed into Syrian
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Date:
6/25/2012
Calls are intensifying for the United States, NATO and the Arab League to intervene to halt the bloodbath being perpetrated in Syria. Commentators on both the Left and Right are castigating the Obama Administration for its seeming hypocrisy in refusing to act in Syria having done so in Libya. The
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Date:
3/27/2012
Over the last several years, the Obama Administration has repeatedly delayed and restructured the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, arguing that more time was needed for testing before the program could enter high-rate production. One consequence of the delays has been to raise the cost of each
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Date:
3/9/2012


