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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 - 11:12pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17050 of 17083)

Maybe one day women, whose apparent "concern" is no "date" tonight, might realize that the "Draft" in any country is the greatest example of truly terrible Gender Discrimination of all time....

lchic - 11:17pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17051 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Put up the War-dead-UK figures for both wars - thanks

lchic - 11:29pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17052 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

WW1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/

WW2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/

WM http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/

TRUTH propaganda http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/truth/

De-Humanising the enemy http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/truth/ [NYT Science MD board || Thread readers here will note the de-humanisationary deflamatory tactics employed against Showalter and lchic]

lchic - 11:31pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17053 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

"" The most pernicious use of propaganda is to de-humanise the enemy, depicting them as evil, criminal and often sub-human figures that pose a threat to survival, in order to make their 'destruction' or 'elimination' more acceptable.

De-humanising strategies are often subtly employed by propagandists in anticipation of a war or attack on the enemy, as in the case of the anti-Semitic propaganda disseminated by the Nazis in the build up to the Second World War.

Governments may call upon the most extreme de-humanising representations towards the end of a conflict to encourage its people to remain committed to the struggle. Such campaigns ensure that the enemy is taken seriously, but may backfire, for example if the negative propaganda is discredited, then similar stories may not be believed, even when they are true.

http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwmcollections.org.uk%2F&QF0=SubThemeTag&QI0=DehumanisingTheEnemy&TN=uncat&RF=ThemedResults&DF=ThemedDetailed&NP=3&AC=QBE_QUERY

lchic - 11:37pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17054 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

WarDead figures 1900-1995 Nations A-Z

http://www.ppu.org.uk/war/facts/www00-95a.html

lchic - 11:44pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17055 of 17083)
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United Kingdom lost a million soldiers WWI + civillians - double the people losses of WW2

1914-1918 WW1 031,000 1,000,000 1,031,000

1939-1945 WW2 100,000 0,350,000 0,450,000

http://www.ppu.org.uk/war/facts/www00-95a.html

lchic - 11:47pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17056 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

The population of Great Britain and Ireland a month before the outbreak of the War of 1914-18 was officially estimated at 46,089,249.

http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/pop.html

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