Strangelove Strategy "I don't think it's [US-Iran war] inevitable, but I think if you have to hit Iran, you don't do it with boots on the ground. You do it with tactical nuclear devices and you set them back a decade or two or three. I think that's the way to do it, with a massive aerial bombardment campaign."-Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.), House Armed Services Committee, interview on C-Span, Dec. 4. Eternal Life, Found "There is one great numerical advantage the US has against potential adversaries. ...That is the size of our defense bureaucracy. While the fighting forces have steadily shrunk by more than half since the early 1990s, the civilian and uniformed bureaucracy has more than doubled. ...There are currently more than 1,500,000 full-time civilian employees in the Defense Department-800,000 civil servants and 700,000 contract employees.
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