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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

rshowalter - 03:59pm Oct 7, 2001 EST (#10202 of 10204)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I'll be back to it. It is a great post.

possumdag - 04:40pm Oct 7, 2001 EST (#10203 of 10204)
"Today is silhouetted in my mind" Copp, L A (1971)

UK: We need the brightest and the best, people with flair, the X-factor, the capacity to come up with insights.' ..The Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, has begun a massive recruitment campaign following the 11 September terrorist attacks, which will see it double in size. It is also making 'aggressive efforts' to recruit ethnic minority officers for the first time. .. 'Our priorities have been completely refocused.' .. http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,564705,00.html .. 'Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the thinking has been that you needed an intelligence service to keep an eye on the various regional, cross-border conflicts, which might get out of hand. No one really thought MI6 was about countering lethal threats to the motherland. For the foreseeable future, that has now changed.'

rshowalter - 04:47pm Oct 7, 2001 EST (#10204 of 10204)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

CONGRESS: Leaders From Both Sides Strongly Support President By REUTERS http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/national/07WIRE-CONG.html

The attacks killed about 5,600 people.

Rough balance in deaths, now. I hope that the military-diplomatic results justified the deaths.

We'll see.

I hope that as large a fraction as possible of those who died were closely identified with Bin Laden's forces.

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