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To: Condor who wrote (19141)	2/17/2002 7:00:06 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 281500

Question: What we need is a good amBush Foreign Policy? Condor, Re: . I can imagine the knee jerk reaction to my comments will be righteous indignation given 9/11 Not from many of us. I think a lot of us who have a brain and care are actually quite appalled that the Perle/Wolfowitz/Armitage "axis of awful" seems to have the ear of the current occupant of 1600 Penns. Ave. Re: The political fallout by all its allies and pretend allies would create a position of the US vs. the world. Hey, we're almost there. Tony Blair can't even keep his foreign minister in line. Rearguards, Ray

To: Condor who wrote (19141)	2/18/2002 5:48:04 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Don't forget, for specific situations, the military seems to have developed a substitute for nuclear weapons. Remember this? The current term, "Revolution in Military Affairs" has evolved from an earlier term -- military technical revolution -- used by Soviet military theorists.(2) In the early 1970s the Soviets had identified two periods of fundamental military change in the 20th Century: one driven by the emergence of aircraft, motor vehicles and chemical warfare in World War I, and the second driven by the development of nuclear weapons, missiles and computers in World War II. The next "military-technical revolution" the Soviets thought, would involve advances in microelectronics, sensors, precision-guidance, automated control systems, and directed energy. By 1984, the Chief of the Soviet General Staff was expressing his concern that the emergence of "automated reconnaissance and strike complexes," including new control systems and very accurate long-range precision weapons, would bring the destructive potential of conventional weapons closer to that of weapons of mass destruction. The success of allied forces in Operation Desert Storm convinced the Soviets that the integration of control, communications, electronic combat, and delivery of conventional fires had been realized for the first time. #reply-16523440 --fl