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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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fredmoore - 11:21am Aug 7, 2003 EST (# 13263 of 13269)

"Fredmoore , it seems to me that greed is a human circumstance, and short-sightedness, too - but that some fairly easy changes (even changes at the New York Times) might make some key things better."

Fairly easy changes to make things better?

Fossil fuel barons rule this planet and nothing easy is going to change that, in a hurry. The way I see it ... a gently staged KAEP or a nightmare Calamity are the two single alternatives we are facing.

Even if an equatorial towed PV array were feasible, and it is not, corporate states would tie it up in knots and knobble it, lest it be competetive and interfere with their bottom lines.

almarst2002 - 04:56pm Aug 7, 2003 EST (# 13264 of 13269)

'Dr Strangeloves' meet to plan new nuclear era

US government scientists and Pentagon officials will gather today at a Nebraska air force base to discuss the development of an arsenal of small, specialised nuclear weapons. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1013690,00.html

almarst2002 - 05:27pm Aug 7, 2003 EST (# 13265 of 13269)

Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993 by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993 - http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm

Summary

This report lists 234 instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes. It brings up to date a 1989 list that was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough sketch survey of past U.S. military ventures abroad.

almarst2002 - 11:42pm Aug 7, 2003 EST (# 13266 of 13269)

Wolfowitz: Iraq Not Involved in 9-11, No Ties to al-Qaeda - http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold13.html

almarst2002 - 07:24am Aug 8, 2003 EST (# 13267 of 13269)

Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who's The Biggest Rogue Of All? http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=4009

gisterme - 05:43pm Aug 8, 2003 EST (# 13268 of 13269)

Almarst:

'Still waiting for your first-hand account.

rshow55 - 08:39pm Aug 8, 2003 EST (# 13269 of 13269)
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.

A first hand account would be good. I'd be interested in it, too.

Gisterme, I can't speak for almarst , but he might be jealous of you because you have such a beautiful, interesting, brilliant companion.

12988 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.NulobLKQxD2.0@.f28e622/14664

12989 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.NulobLKQxD2.0@.f28e622/14665

12990-12993 might interest some, too.

Fredmoore , your http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.NulobLKQxD2.0@.f28e622/14948 left me thinking - and I'll sleep on my response. But yes, I think some fairly easy changes could make things better.

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