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May 01, 2013

UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat
London, UK (SPX) May 01, 2013
Twenty-plus years on, the collapse of the USSR in 1991 threatened massive Western defense budgets, bereft of a major enemy like the "Evil Empire." Western militaries conveniently found a new global enemy a decade later following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, and since then, they have struggled in the light of invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to adapt their strategies to cope with the new threat, making defending the "homeland" the highest priority. While the U.S. created the "Depart ... read more

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