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Embracing that objective now would represent significant mission creep.
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Robert S. Ford, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2025
Image For starters, there is concern about mission creep and the militarization of a civilian security challenge.
—Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Amid disparate motives and seething grudges, mission creep set in and the coup evolved into an assassination.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
That’s because the Apple Watch—not just the Ultra—suffers from a chronic case of mission creep.
—Adrienne So, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
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Robert S. Ford, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2025
Image For starters, there is concern about mission creep and the militarization of a civilian security challenge.
—Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Amid disparate motives and seething grudges, mission creep set in and the coup evolved into an assassination.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
That’s because the Apple Watch—not just the Ultra—suffers from a chronic case of mission creep.
—Adrienne So, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
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“Mission creep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mission%20creep. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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