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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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lchic - 11:59am Oct 11, 2002 EST (# 4811 of 4814)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://www.europedaily.com/

http://www.people.memphis.edu/~history/news.html

rshow55 - 12:22pm Oct 11, 2002 EST (# 4812 of 4814)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

mazza9 10/11/02 11:55am - - I'm fully aware of how ineffective AA technology is now. #330-339 in Psychwarfare, Casablanca - - - and terror http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee7a163/352 sets out new technology - though only so new - - the key reference on polynomial processing was written in 1989, according to Casey's instructions - and has been on the web most of the time since.

We need to accomodate the fact that technical progress doesn't stop. Right now, the US is making huge strategic errors, and making trillion dollar deployment errors - because of a reluctance to face facts that would have shamed Casey.

mazza9 - 01:42pm Oct 11, 2002 EST (# 4813 of 4814)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Robert

The Sep 30, 2002 Aviation Week reported that TRW is developing a laser weapon for F-16s and other manned and unmanned aircraft. It will be pod mounted and will have a 10km range. It wll be capable of engaging ground and airborne targets. It can be used against cruise missiles, (by gosh, like the Spitfires that defended London from the V-1 assault!)

Why this amounts to a mini ABL system. Guess those nasty bad guys will apply reflective coatings to their crusie missiles. Good Luck!

It's just been announced that Buck Showalter will be the new manager of the Texas Rangers. Tell the truth, aren't you really a baseball manager with a journeyman's understanding of math and no connection to the CIA? Now that you mention it, there is a Stenglese tone to your punditry! I'll bet your really George Will! Yep! By Gosh there's a W in your last name and also one in George Will's. Ooh! The dots are lining up.

Question? "Who's on First?" "I Don't Know. "Third Base!"

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