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Government Executive Magazine - 3/3/04 Pentagon's homeland defense chief predicts long war on terror: "The war on terrorism will last as long and take as many resources as the Cold War did, the commander of the North American Aerospace Command and Northern Command recently said.
Air Force Gen. Ralph Eberhart, who was in charge of the nation's air defenses when the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked, said the U.S. government should prepare the public for a long haul in the global war on terrorism and use resources that were developed to fight abroad for homeland defense.
'Those who think that this war on terrorism is short-lived, just like the Gulf Wars, just like Kosovo and just like Bosnia, I think they're mistaken,' Eberhart said Feb. 25 during a conference sponsored by the American Forces Communications and Electronics Association. 'It's more like the Cold War than any war we've experienced in our lifetime. It's going to take the same commitment across this great nation to win the global war on terrorism. It's probably going to take the same time frame. And it's going to take the same dedication of resources, intellectual capital and fiscal [capital].'
'Unless we do that and make time work for us, as it did during the Cold War ... time will work for the terrorists, and I guarantee you that's what they're counting on' Eberhart added."