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The Motley Fool May 12, 2011 Rich Smith	Force Protection and the War on Terrorized Defense Investors Osama bin Laden is still dead. Is the defense industry dead, too?
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The Motley Fool October 23, 2008 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Advances, Shares Retreat After an initial surge in response to Q3 earnings, shares of defense contractor General Dynamics are today executing a phased withdrawal back to their pre-earnings positions.
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The Motley Fool September 5, 2008 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Flanks Force Protection General Dynamics has landed a $102 million contract to sell mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to Spain, affecting a whole row of defense contractors operating in this market.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Rich Smith	Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Defense Spending Cuts What do these three things have in common? Just like the mythical creatures, the threat to defense spending is a total myth.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Force Protection's Shredded Storybook Second order for MRAP armored vehicles goes to a surprise winner. The 18,000 sales that investors had priced into the stock have been ripped from the pages of this storybook story. How the story will end, is anyone's guess.
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The Motley Fool August 4, 2009 Eric Bleeker	Juice Your Defense-Investing Returns What works in defense investing today might be a relic tomorrow.
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The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Force Protection Dances a Jig A $1.2 billion Pentagon award to produce additional mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicles is divided between Force Protection and two other defense contractors.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	New Afghanistan Troop Plan to Cost Billions President Barack Obama's decision to delay troop withdrawals from Afghanistan could cost $10 billion or more annually, analysts said.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In the continuing battle between the S&P 500 and six defense stocks, let's see how the stocks are doing: General Dynamics... Raytheon... Lockheed martin... AeroVironment... iRobot... Force Protection...
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The Motley Fool August 11, 2009 Rich Smith	Time to Buy Force Protection? Revenues for this armored vehicle maker look fine, but profits went up in smoke.
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National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military.
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense?
The Motley Fool August 2, 2011 Neha Chamaria	What to Do With Oshkosh Now? Defense-spending cuts remain a concern.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2008 Rich Smith	A Contract Is Awarded, and Humvee Hilarity Ensues Boeing and Textron complain to the Government Accountability Office about having lost the Pentagon's Humvee contract. Northrop Grumman, and Oshkosh have filed protests as well.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Rich Smith	Who Wants to Be a Pentagon Billionaire? The clock's ticking down to the final minutes on the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar purchase of an estimated 5,200 all-terrain armored vehicles for the war in Afghanistan. Let's review the situation.
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The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Rich Smith	An Open Letter to Boeing Here's what the aerospace giant needs to do to straighten up and fly right.
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