He stopped moving forward and prepared to defend against what seemed to be a strong Confederate attack.
VOA: special.2009.08.27
Defense Minister Ahmed Vahidi says the Sejil 2 is intended to defend the country against outside attack.
VOA: standard.2009.12.18
Christophe Duverne, a spokesman for NXP, told Reuters that it would take months or years for some users of the chip to adapt their systems to defendagainst the attack.
The comprehensive capability to defendagainst ballistic missile attack inherent in a space-based SDI is utterly incompatible with the concept of strategic vulnerability to such attack enshrined in that 1972 accord.
The US's EMP commission's report explained that to defendagainst such an attack, it is necessary to build redundant electrical systems and have difficult-to-build replacement parts like turbines on hand to replace ones destroyed by such an attack.