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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (265248)12/20/2005 12:23:07 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1573822
 
We used to compete with the Soviets building expensive weapons systems. Now, we just compete with our own previous generation that we've sold to other nations. Some of the MOST expensive, WE'RE the only buyers! A lot of our Navy is like that now, and our Air Force is getting that way too.

We keep it going, telling ourselves that maintaining a vast arms industry is part of our national security. But is that REALLY true when there is no competing arms industry at the same level?

If we stopped advancing the state of the art in weaponry, would someone else take up the cause?
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