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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 14:22:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 14:22:08 1985
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> ... 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...

Not true, they went around it rather than through it.  And they were able
to do that because it had been cut down from M. Maginot's original proposal,
which did not envisage such a gaping hole in the defences opposite the
Ardennes.  (It is worth noting that it was also undermanned and not well
maintained -- issues that will be worth remembering if SDI is deployed.)

And this discussion has drifted away from specifically space-related issues
to the point where it probably should not continue in net.space.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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