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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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lunarchick - 01:51pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5859 of 5866)

Islam was examined on the original thread - one of the findings was the distortion of it in the Twelth Century and move to violence.

It's always important with sets of belief systems to go back to the earliest sources and re-interpret.

Women have done this - and through so doing have redefined their role within it.

lunarchick - 02:03pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5860 of 5866)

There are about 100 million people in the Middle East enjoying life under Islamic national systems.

Some pipeline economies may have ONE person as leader who TAKES control of a geographic tract of land.

Does ONE person with overall control - work?

A comparison might be made with the growth of a business. As a small business it can be run by one person, next their family, then extended family .... wow!

But hang on .... the business is falling behind the competition ....

Expertise is brought in to shape it and organise process ..... now it's back on track and growing once more .... it's developing 'plans' for future growth.

The 'span' of control of one person within process has been estimated at 20.

One supervisor can monitor 20 people.

One manager can monitor 20 supervisors.

One higher manager might monitor up to 20 managers.

Looking to national Parliaments

One Prime Minister monitors 20 Cabinet Ministers (inner & outer)

Through organisation of feedback systems the work of a nation can be achieved via delegation.

Within the sectors of delegation and process those managing have zones of control and responsibility. Through this mechanism much can be achieved.

These systems are tuned and refined for optimum effectiveness.

lunarchick - 02:07pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5861 of 5866)

East Timor is a current example of a nation that the UN has looked at and worked with recently.

Timor was vandalised and wrecked.

This new nation has had to be planned and built from both physically and structurally (in the organisational/entity sense).

Can comparisons be drawn between it's modern blueprint and the needs of other nations that may have to 'catch-up' to move towards functional complex societies ?

lunarchick - 02:09pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5862 of 5866)

East Timor Constitution and future ...

lunarchick - 02:09pm Nov 17, 2002 EST (# 5863 of 5866)

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