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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

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lunarchick - 09:11am Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8559 of 8567)
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Brandon said. He said he was gratified that The Agency had gone out of its way to show "the bravery and decency of the men and women who work here".

Question if all the people who work there are A1 .. then when, where, why, how does it go bad?

Gloria Reuben, who stars in The Agency, said: "We don't know about the positive things that have happened, because they can't talk about it... I wonder if we didn't have these people, what language we would be speaking right now."

The veteran CIA-watcher Saul Landau, author of The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security and US Foreign Policy, said: "The CIA have not done very well over the years; they have been in a number of scandals and they've murdered people. They certainly need a makeover and who better than Hollywood to do it for them? This is an organisation that was created to fight the Soviet Union and now that it's gone they have no reason to be."

lunarchick - 10:33am Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8560 of 8567)
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Mexi-cSHEo

Martha Sahugan was President Fox's press secretary when the invitations were being sent out and was not considered important enough to merit a place at table*. Then, on July 2, she became his wife.

whitehouse dinner party

rshowalter - 04:49pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8561 of 8567)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Rumsfeld Defends Missile Defense Funds by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Rumsfeld-Defense-Budget.html

Includes this:

"``To the extent the Russians develop a perception that the United States is not interested in going forward in providing defense against ballistic missiles or that we're split on that issue, obviously it's in their interest to not come to any agreements with us,'' he told a Senate appropriations subcommittee."

That doesn't follow. If the analogy of this thread is a good one, it is in the interest of the Russians to come to an agreement, on military balances as a whole , that enhances their security.

If such an agreement can be worked out, with or without US funding of missile defense efforts, as they are or technically can be.

What's needed is a "win - win" situation - - and at least for Almarst, missile defense is only one of a number of issues, and by no means the largest.

lunarchick - 05:19pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8562 of 8567)
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You mean issues such as launching Russia motherland into a higher stratosphere as per recipes above :)

lunarchick - 05:31pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8563 of 8567)
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now in recovery? (post party)

rshowalter - 05:40pm Sep 6, 2001 EST (#8564 of 8567)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

If Russia took the initiative toward solving the world's energy problem (for a good profit) -- and solving the global warming problem (with effluent charges that could pay) and getting water desalinization really effective - - it would be doing pro-active things, and the idea that it was "economically backwards" might fade away fast.

Might be able to do some things on space flight, too.

Russia can be a leader in "getting it right on paper" - which would be a real edge on returns on investment -- and on its ability to cooperate internally, and with other people.

If I were almarst , and if the notions of complexity had worked for me, I might take a look at "Models of Innovation" -- pp178-186 "the chain link model of innovation" in Steve Kline's

CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING .

Main message: you need feedbacks, and checking on the information flows -- that fit the complexity of the system you happen to be dealing with, human and physical.

While it was at it, it would need effective, proportionate deterrants with respect to other nation states, including the US. Wouldn't be hard to do, and shouldn't be expensive.

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