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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 - 06:37pm Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10723 of 10762)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Babhdad - bigger bashing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2897711.stm

lchic - 06:41pm Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10724 of 10762)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Saddam - replaces chief (in charge of missiles) because they malfunction

.... but who supplied them

.... how were they designed

.... is it the 'mind' of the replaced chief that caused projectile interference

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The UK should be careful when trashing oversized artifacts!

rshow55 - 07:35pm Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10725 of 10762)
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.

Q&A: What's Prolonging the Iraq War? From the Council on Foreign Relations, March 28, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/slot3_032803.html

Former three-star Marine Corps General Bernard Trainor says that a "shock and awe" air campaign has failed and an anticipated uprising of Shiias has not occurred, thereby prolonging the Iraq war; in his words "taking the bloom off the rose." Trainor, who has criticized the level of U.S. forces in Iraq, warns that Iraqis are likely to set up a"spider web" defense around Baghdad to ensnare coalition troops.

Trainor also notes that Iraqis have adopted tactics similar to those used by the Viet Cong to limit the effectiveness of U.S. power in the Vietnam War.

10579 - 81 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.ooj7aQOi6vO.0@.f28e622/12129 offers insight into what the administration's plans and assumptions were when the decision to invade was taken. A far cry from what has happened.

1080 starts: Here is gisterme - 06:43pm Mar 14, 2003 EST (# 9944 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.ooj7aQOi6vO.0@.f28e622/11489 in its entirety:

dcougar's 10719 includes this:

"Generally the stay-at-home-journalists' coverage, investigation, and questioning of this war has been utterly pathetic. "Did this surprise you?" "Why is this taking so long?" "Did you misjudge?" What a bunch of thoughtless idiots.

Is it "thoughtless idiocy" to deal with fundamentals?

Everything we hold dear depends on reasonable decisions - decisions that make human sense. In the real world. Even religions have to be asked to meet human needs - as those needs change . . . . .

IDEAS & TRENDS O Ye of Much Faith! A Triple Dose of Trouble http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/weekinreview/02GOOD.html By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

This is a rare moment in history, like a planetary alignment: three world religions simultaneously racked by crisis.

If religious doctrine is in crisis, security doctrine is as well. "The National Security Strategy of the United States," http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html looks full of hubris now.

"The National Security Strategy of the United States" sets out some admirable objectives, but it ignores many of the concerns almarst has expresses, and insists that the whole world accomodate modernity on OUR terms.

We'd better figure out how we, and other nations, are to do work together, as we are, in ways that meet our needs and limitations.

A lot of people have been trying and failing to deal with these issues for a long time. If it were otherwise, Vietnam and a lot else would have gone very differently.

Good intentions - especially parochial good intentions - aren't always enough. You have to be right , too.

9944 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.ooj7aQOi6vO.0@.f28e622/11489 is worth attention, and if it is written by a personage of the rank that I suspect http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.ooj7aQOi6vO.0@.f28e622/12129 - we ought to be concerned - and check things.

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