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  • Savings would accrue from decreasing routine deployment of U.S. troops overseas (ignoring overseas contingency operations), slowing the growth of the Army and Marine Corps as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, reducing the fleet size of the U.S. Navy, reducing the number of Air Force squadrons, reducing the strategic capabilities, and canceling outdated cold-war weapon systems (including variations of the F-35, MV-22 Osprey, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), among other savings.

    Robert Naiman: A Vote on the People's Budget is a Vote on the Wars Robert Naiman 2011

  • The county was the site of a cold-war showdown with the United States and at one time boasted the Soviet Union's biggest naval base abroad.

    Russian President Signs Nuclear Plant Deal With Vietnam 2010

  • But to critics, the dreary building seemed better suited for cold-war Russia.

    Beauty of an Ugly Duckling Dawn Wotapka 2011

  • Savings would accrue from decreasing routine deployment of U.S. troops overseas (ignoring overseas contingency operations), slowing the growth of the Army and Marine Corps as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, reducing the fleet size of the U.S. Navy, reducing the number of Air Force squadrons, reducing the strategic capabilities, and canceling outdated cold-war weapon systems (including variations of the F-35, MV-22 Osprey, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), among other savings.

    Robert Naiman: A Vote on the People's Budget is a Vote on the Wars Robert Naiman 2011

  • In his afterword to The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross makes a bold pair of assertions: Len Deighton was a horror writer (because “all cold-war era spy thrillers rely on the existential horror of nuclear annihilation”) while Lovecraft wrote spy thrillers (with their “obsessive collection of secret information”).

    Updated Readercon Schedule raecarson 2009

  • They were cold-war warriors who had provided the intellectual basis for much of what Mrs Thatcher had done.

    He's a Tory, I'm a leftie and we're still happily married 2011

  • One picture showed Jewish visitors praying near a synagogue in a district called Osiedle Za Zelazna Brama, which we translated as "Behind the Iron Curtain", suggesting some cold-war link.

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • However, once topics move away from the short-term issues and get into geopolitics, such as the roles of the state in domestic and international economy, the temperature immediately rises, and you almost feel a quasi cold-war reaction.

    Elephant in the Room in Davos: China Kevin Lu 2011

  • You need at least 3 hours to do it justice, and don't get so waylaid by the early exhibits that you miss the cold-war stories at the end.

    Spring Break in Washington, DC aka TBTAM 2009

  • Savings would accrue from decreasing routine deployment of U.S. troops overseas (ignoring overseas contingency operations), slowing the growth of the Army and Marine Corps as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, reducing the fleet size of the U.S. Navy, reducing the number of Air Force squadrons, reducing the strategic capabilities, and canceling outdated cold-war weapon systems (including variations of the F-35, MV-22 Osprey, and Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), among other savings.

    Robert Naiman: A Vote on the People's Budget is a Vote on the Wars Robert Naiman 2011

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