A small mobile missile can help make america's land-based arsenal more secure .
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The air over the world's oceans has proved baffling to many land-based air forces .
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There would be fierce opposition from traditionalists in the services, to say nothing of the vociferous new land-based air power lobby .
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This minor bureaucratic triumph lost some of its luster, however, when one examined its principal feature: a freeze on both land-based and seabased strategic missiles .