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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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rshow55 - 11:00pm Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4542 of 4547)
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.

Using the detection scheme of rshow55 9/25/02 4:38pm would radically outperform our best current radars, as well. Making "missile defense" a little more plausible. The vulnerability to decoys would remain - and make "missile defense" always much more expensive than missile offense.

rshow55 - 11:01pm Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4543 of 4547)
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.

We're making trillion dollar procurement errors -- and making errors in tactics and doctrine that are reducing the security of the United States.

There are things people should check.

lchic - 11:03pm Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4544 of 4547)

One presumes Showalter is responding to Johnson here - what was his last moniker - 'commondata' ?

rshow55 - 11:07pm Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4545 of 4547)
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.

"Chirpers" big enough to work to detect real combat airplanes at longer range, rather than model airplanes -- might cost less than $1000 each - and the recievers aren't fancy, either.

Our "stealth" planes would be especially vulnerable - since they are so slow, and have sacrificed so much for a specialized set of directional reflection characteristics.

The United States is not immune from the rule of law - - especially physical law -- and the idea that we can dominate the world, especially by bombing - is crazy.

That can be checked. We aren't talking "rocket science" here (though rocket science can be easy) -- we're talking technology much simpler than the technology we rely on to run our cell phone systems.

The U. S. Air Force should be ashamed of themselves - they've grossly oversold what they have to offer from a national security point of view.

rshow55 - 11:11pm Sep 25, 2002 EST (# 4546 of 4547)
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.

When you look at the money wasted, the lies told, and the laziness of the "military-industrial-political complex" - - and think about what the nation needs - - I think a person should ask:

How can this much willingness to waste and lie not be treason?

Gisterme and I have had a good deal of dialog about the word "treason."

For myself, I'm quite sure that I'm working in the real national interest -- and don't think anybody with a name is actually willing to contest that.

We're dealing with some lethal frauds here.

The Senate Majority Leader has been slow to anger - but I wish he'd pay attention.

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