Safety is gained in stealth and forces projected on the long arc of precision-guided weapons.
And he bombed Iraq, using ultra-modern precision-guided weapons, which generally missed.
But whatever the failures, the overall success of precision-guided weapons against Iraq has been decisive by all present indications.
Nor does it have the precision-guided weapons to take out enemy silos once they got there.
For the first time, a vast majority of bombs and missiles dropped on the enemy were precision-guided weapons.
The precision-guided weapons used in the air war in Afghanistan are certainly marvels of technology.
Air forces and precision-guided weapons were also likely to be used.
That's a lot of accidents when you are talking about "precision-guided" weapons.
The country has few precision-guided weapons and only outdated battlefield command-and-control ability.
Nonetheless, even precision-guided weapons miss their mark 7 to 10 percent of the time, planners say.