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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?

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bluestar23 - 09:20pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 15995 of 16032)

Showalter:

"But then, others disagree with some things I've said without any justification at all except for the thread itself."

"Without any justification"..? You abuse the Forum Policy, idiot...and (B): What do you mean, "except for the thread"..? There is nothing else, fool...

Showalter:

"I believe that this thread is now, and has been for a while, the largest interconnected corpus devoted to negotiation practices in the world - or at least one of very few."

Astounding delusional psychotic illness...

lchic - 09:39pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 15996 of 16032)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

penultimate link 15985 gives ....

Here's a pair of guidelines, that Steve sets out for scholarly groups, that I think should apply to political and economic systems, too.

" Guideline for Scholarly Controversy: When two (or more) groups of empirically grounded scholars create conflicting solutions for a single problem, and this leads to back-and-forth arguments for decades, then it is likely that each group has some of the truth, but not all of it. .

Corollary: When two (or more) groups of empirically grounded scholars have a long-continuing argument, an improved solution can often be found by reframing the problem to include the solidly grounded data underlying both sides of the argument.

lchic - 09:41pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 15997 of 16032)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

bluey ... so you're a military historian

Excuse my asking ... but ....

can you show us your 'road map' to becoming a 'military historian' ...

lchic - 09:46pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 15998 of 16032)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Here's a real military historian ... he has a NAME ... there are pictures ...

http://people.history.ohio-state.edu/grimsley.1/warchild/warchild.htm

a web link ... a Departmental Name ... that has a real telephone number

http://cohums.ohio-state.edu/

College of Humanities 614-292-1882

lchic - 09:48pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 15999 of 16032)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Another REAL military historian

Larry Suid is a military historian. He is a writer for "Naval History Magazine" and is the author of "Sailing on the Silver Screen: Hollywood and the U.S. Navy."

http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2001/05/25/suid/

bluestar23 - 09:49pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 16000 of 16032)

"your 'road map' to becoming a 'military historian' ..."

I feel no need to justify my formal education to such a cretin as yourself...

mazza9 - 09:52pm Oct 30, 2003 EST (# 16001 of 16032)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Bluestar23: which cretin? I have Robert, Looney and Cantabb blocked but I'm lurkin' and do show the occassional curiosity. Maybe you need to avoid the aggida and block whomever!

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