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SLOW: Pentagon Red Tape Delayed Iraq?s Life-Saving Lasers. ?As early as the spring of 2006, the ?

By Glenn Reynolds

SLOW: Pentagon Red Tape Delayed Iraq?s Life-Saving Lasers. “As early as the spring of 2006, the Pentagon admits, an inexpensive bit of off-the-shelf technology could have given U.S. Marines at their checkpoints in western Iraq a better way of warning off approaching drivers. But the tech ? a nonlethal laser gun that ‘dazzles’ drivers and forces them off the road ? ran afoul of the Marines? weapon-developing bureaucracy.”

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