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To: Neocon who wrote (215439)	1/7/2002 1:34:16 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

cheap decoys are an impossibility Nonsense, cheap rockets with cheap guidance and only enough range to get half way to target? That's one kind of decoy. Another is just a tiny rocket with radar corner reflectors on it, or even just a tin foil flag flapping behind it. Finally there electronicly produced ghost images of incomming missles all designed to force an early targeting and launch of the defensive shield. Bored college kids might do it for amusement. TP

To: Neocon who wrote (215439)	1/7/2002 2:38:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Prior to that stage" means space-based defenses... not theater defenses, which is all that the new planning proposes for quite a while. Two things argue against the near term viability of a space-based leg to "Star Wars" defenses: 1) We have slashed development of a follow-on orbital transport system to replace the decrepid space shuttle system.... A "Penny wise, pound foolish decision" if their ever was one. 2) The "keg of nails" defense could obviate much of our satelitte based assets... which are critical to any boost phase attack strategy. (We are very worried about a potential adversary - such as the North Koreans or China - launching a dumb 'keg of nails' into a counter-rotating orbit to our spy sats., and then exploding it. The kinetic impacts would wipe out our 'eyes in the sky' without which no defensive system could succeed in the initial boost phase of an ICBM attack. The mere threat of such an attack - taking out commercial as well as military assets - could be enough to allow blackmail to succeed as a military policy.)