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Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 17:04:06 EST
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 While I can't say I disagree with your assessment of the possible failings
of SDI as a defensive system, it isn't really true that the Germans went
"right through the Maginot line;" as a matter of fact, they went around it,
through the Ardennes forest of Luxembourg and Belgium, which wasn't
supposed to be "tank country." So much for the accuracy of military
experts in forecasting the course of the "next war."
 Some of us, in fact, think that, had the Maginot line been extended all
the way to the Channel, the Panzers never would have gotten through. But
that's not space....