Odd article. The system does work and they're still building it. Just not in Eastern Europe. Strange that it was announced 70 years to day day of Soviet invasion of Poland.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a pretty good analysis from Foreign Policy magazine that I read > yesterday. > > http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/09/17/the_new_defense_realism?page=0,1 > > Basic run down is that Bush admin wanted to use the missile defense > systems they've been trying to get to work in Alaska. Three > fundamental problems with that is that 1, it doesn't work very well if > at all and 2, the technology that doesn't quite work yet would have to > be adapted to a new situation and 3, it is built for working against > long range missiles (ICBM) and the major threat in the Eastern > European theater would be Iran (which doesn't have long range missiles > and won't for quite some time) and possibly Russia, which would be > using short and medium range missiles on Eastern Europe, not long > range missiles. > > Basically, the Obama admin said that we should focus on short and > medium range missile defense in that theater and use technology that > is more proven for that purpose. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304449 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
