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Iran’s Successful Space Launch

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Красная звезда среда – Red Star Wednesday

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Restructuring the Military: 2009 Edition

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… (T)his budget represents an opportunity; one of those rare chances to match virtue to necessity, to critically and ruthlessly separate appetites from real requirements, those things that are desirable in a perfect world from those things that are truly needed in light of the threats America faces and the missions we are likely to…