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How Smart Bombs Enable Dumb Wars

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Jan 30, 202600:46:11Government & Organizations

The Paveway bomb, invented by Texas Instruments in the 1970s, was the first truly precise munition. It revolutionized America’s air campaign in Vietnam and allowed whole new kinds of “limited” U.S. wars in Libya, Iraq, S...

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How Smart Bombs Enable Dumb Wars is an episode from DiploPod by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Paveway bomb, invented by Texas Instruments in the 1970s, was the first truly precise munition. It revolutionized America’s air...

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Published Jan 30, 2026, 00:46:11 long, audio available.

How Smart Bombs Enable Dumb Wars

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