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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
- References: <1992Dec14.144135.14439@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec14.221347.3359@iti.org> <1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec16.202219.2063@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.110426.8596@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec17.1 <1992Dec21.164114.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.u <1993Jan05.172440.14403@eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan06.212430.15120@eng.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:16:23 GMT
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- sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:
-
- >>> B) Invited attack on any space assets you've got
- >>
- >>So, how many nations have more space assets to lose (and
- >>less ability to quickly replace them) than the United States?
-
- >It is likely we have a quick-launch replacement capability, either through
- >air breathing mysterious aircraft or (more likely) derivative ballistic missile
- >capability, on land and at sea.
-
- Could you please cite a shread of evidence that such a system is operational?
- Stipulating for a moment that the capability exists, please explain how many
- ground based backups there are for KH-12s or how long it takes to replace them.
- Quick launch capability is after all quite useless without something to launch.
-
-
- >It is unlikely the attacking third-world country would have an equalivent
- >replacement capability for whatever assets it has.
-
- If you're assuming the attacker is a third world country than you seem to be
- ignoring the possibility that it doesn't have significant assests worth worrying
- about. That doesn't mean that they wouldn't love knocking ours out.
-
- >>
- >>> C) Tossed public opinion and the world community off your side;
- >>> NOT a good thing.
- >>
- >>That didn't stop Saddam Hussein from invading Kuwait.
-
- >Sure it didn't. However, the UN voted to remove Iraqi troops by the use of
- >force and thereby did so accordingly. Had Iraqi troops seized anything less
- >than Kuwait City, or removed themselves from Kuwait City without committing
- >anything more than token atrocities, Iraq would not be divided into three parts
- >today.
-
- And the threat of that didn't stop Saddam Hussein from invading either. Keep
- in mind that attackers frequently think along different lines than their
- enemies expect them to.
- --
- Josh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- Q: How do you tell a novice from an expert.
- A: A novice hesitates before doing something stupid.
-