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The Doughnut is just a building. Also good quite modern buildings were sacrificed in order to build it. It certainly didn't make up for loss of staff. Lack of skilled staff became a serious issue and still is.
When hostilities, cold or otherwise, cease, you shouldn't pare back your intelligence services, quite the opposite. Those services, particularly electronic services in these times, you should be continuously upgrading.
But it doesn't matter what or who's kit you buy, (although I would certainly prefer they didn't get it from potential enemies,) without properly trained and skilled staff it's primarily ornamental. That's a problem that stretches over many aspects of all services both civilian and governmental these days.
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Corporal Hicks
(Actually Ripley said it first.)
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