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From: art@ACC.ARPA
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Subject: A High Tech Maginot Line
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 02:10:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 02:10:00 1985
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One concern I have about SDI is the situation France was in at the
start of WWII.  The French had built an "impregnable" defensive system
along the German border called the Maginot Line.  But the German Panzer
Army was a development in warfare technology that the Maginot Line was
not prepared for and the German Armies ran right through it.  If we
put up SDI and our adversaries have converted to cruise missiles and
low level supersonic bombers, will we be protected?  It seems that SDI
may just result in a change of tactics and an ongoing vicious cycle of
weapons development.  We had better try to learn from history, lest we
repeat it.  Let us hope that our respective leaders can find some way
to at least reduce the number of existing weapons.

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