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4 The Global Positioning System (Military Uses)

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To understand what the loss of America’s Global Positioning System (GPS) would mean to the military, we need to first understand what it is and why it is used.

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  1. US Congress, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, P.L. 3-160, Division A, Subtitle D, Section 152(b). See also Senate Armed Services Committee Report 103-112.

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Johnson, L. (2013). 4 The Global Positioning System (Military Uses). In: Sky Alert!. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1830-6_6

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