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To: Win Smith who wrote (123136)	1/15/2004 11:11:06 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Record's paper does a very nice job and his suggestions are sound. Two areas that need more expansion [though this isn't a criticism of the paper]: 1. additional discussion on the parallel of the GWOT and the "war on drugs". It's an excellent parallel. 2. Limitations of national resources. There isn't an infinite amount of resources that can be thrown into the GWOT. He makes some mention of the military forces aspect but there are additional resources such as intelligence collection capabilities. There are reallocations of funding that need to be considered...does it really make sense to spend money on activating the national guard and reserves when the nuclear facilities and chemical plants in the US are largely unprotected. This is not to suggest that those resources are to be used for protecting facilities and chemical plants, but there are ways to spend the money to increase the physical security. jttmab