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To: i-node who wrote (396898)	7/8/2008 8:47:50 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1574761

"Like I said." Not precisely. You credited SDI with it. Which wasn't what the Soviets were talking about at the time. Sure, it was a challenge. But they formulated several ways to push it way back. What they didn't have a ready solution for was the Stinger and what it represented. The Assault Breaker program, which they had discounted, suddenly seemed extremely likely. Suddenly, their wall of tanks wasn't much of a threat any more. With Stingers proving that their masses of helicopters were relatively slow moving targets, all of their troops suddenly looked pretty useless. They did learn in WWII that troops without armor support or air support were just targets, nothing more. Gorbachev, in a series of letters, pointed out the cold, hard facts that the tanks and helicopters they had strangled their economy to produce was obsolete. The Holy Grail of "liberating" Europe was out of their grasp. And that they had to modernize their economy if they wanted to compete. Pure industrialization wasn't going to cut it any more.

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