- Nov 07, 2020
Ballistic Quotes
Straight lines through defense policy.
These quotes come from defense and foreign policy discussions - noting Iran's ballistic missile and cyber capabilities, and Tehran holding the largest such inventory in the Middle East.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dangerous Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.
- Middle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
- Cyber
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
- Ashore
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that holds the government back from just going ballistic on us is the Second Amendment. When we become disarmed, it's over. It's over.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they've violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020