1.   Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.

2.   But Wood said the U.S. military remains vulnerable because defense planners have failed to acknowledge the threat.

3.   Computer-aided design crafted by defense planners or meteorologists makes its way into the hands of film specialists.

4.   Defense planners in the Clinton Administration welcome the trends.

5.   Defense planners are reviewing whether some air-deployed technologies not yet in full-scale production could be sent to the region for serious operations.

6.   Defense planners on both sides have felt comfortable with lower levels of offensive missiles knowing that they would not have to penetrate a defensive missile shield.

7.   The Air Force faces a serious shortage of experienced pilots, and it may take a decade to correct the problem, a top defense planner said.

8.   The implicit answer that defense planners seem to have settled upon is that two major competitors in any line of military work are enough to keep costs low.

9.   The issue is being described at the Pentagon as the most troubling case in a generation of how politics overrides the views of defense planners.

10.   The result is that there is little evidence that defense planners are taking to heart what is perhaps the chief lesson of Kosovo.