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assortment of land-based missiles, bombers and submarine-launched missiles – goes absent. http://www.obdii.co.uk/airbag-reset-tool/bmw-obd2-server-restting-tool It was overkill in the course of the Cold War, and its value-added utility these days is marginal. Budget pressures, if not forward-looking army contemplating, will render it obsolete. The sole query is when – and the way – it is going to occur. Much better which the Pentagon choose to scale back the triad instead of getting it compelled down its missile tubes by some fiscal calamity. Panetta, within an addendum to Monday’s letter, confirms the Air Force’s land-based missile leg will be the a single to if deep spending budget cuts appear, and that doing so will preserve $8 billion above the coming 10 years: “Eliminate ICBM leg of Triad,” it notes. mongoose cable “($8B).” Hagel's Confirmation, and the Return of Sam Nunn A quarter-century ago, then-Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, pretty much doomed former senator John Tower s chances of becoming defense secretary for the first President Bush. Thursday, now-former senator, and anti-nuclear activist, Nunn will do what he can to push another former Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, into the defense secretary s cavernous Pentagon E-ring office. Nunn s dual roles highlight Senate clubiness – and the difference between the two nominees. In 1989, there were persistent, and legitimate, questions surrounding the dapper Tower s treatment of women, and his fondness for alcohol. The Senate ultimately voted 53-47 against confirming the ex-GOP senator from Texas, marking the first time a newly-elected president had been denied a Cabinet officer. In 2013, there are no indications that Hagel is saddled with any such baggage. But there is a dedicated core of pro-Israel conservatives and largely GOP hawks who find Hagel s views on defense and the Middle East so extreme they are doing everything they can to keep him out of that E-ring office. Perhaps that s why Nunn, and former Republican Virginia senator John Warner, are expected to introduce Hagel