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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (19808)	3/25/2001 1:52:17 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

The reactivation of the "star wars" anti-missile defense is the issue most people think about. My son, who has a number of patents in this area, and whose graduate thesis dealt with the ability to target and hit an incoming missile, found that the current approach to the problem is theoretically and practically unworkable. In other words, they can throw as much money and talent as they like towards designing a system, and it still probably won't work. The reason is that a missile aimed at an incoming target cannot maneuver quickly in space, where there is no air resistance. The current design program contract has been handled by a company that thinks it can overcome this problem. So much for the budget surplus. The specific anti-missile system with regard to Taiwan deals with provision of 4 destroyers with anti-missile capability. The U.S. says Taiwan should have this latest technology because China has 300 or so missiles aimed at Taiwan. Confrontation really does not solve the problem for either side. What disturbs me is that the Administration seems to be choosing confrontation as the preferred strategy, as if China were nothing more than another competitor of a Texas company. That may be how Texans do it, but from years of experience overseas, particularly in southeast Asia, I know it doesn't lead to good results. Art