The prior investment in infrastructure makes this far and away the most cost-effective, flexible and rapid means of fielding limited anti-missile systems, leaving ample funds available to bring other, complementary missile-defense technologies on line in due course.

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This may be an extreme position, but there is ample evidence that the bottom-line mentality is taking over.

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Many NATO war games assumed that there would be at least several days advance notice of any Soviet attack, and that there would be ample time to adequately position both front-line and reserve units.

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