Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!aecom!werner
From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line
Message-ID: <2138@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 02:10:16 EST
Article-I.D.: aecom.2138
Posted: Sat Dec 14 02:10:16 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Dec-85 05:35:37 EST
References: <8512020718.AA15110@s1-b.arpa>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
Lines: 19

> 
> 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

	Actually, the German armies went through Belgium and hence around, not
through the Maginot line.  They came up to the line eventually from behind,
and the fixed fortifications, being pointed towards Germany, were useless.
The lesson, however, is the same.

	Personally, I think the best way to find and win a war was described
in some detail by Asimov in Foundation (1950).
-- 

				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
                        "It doesn't even have to be a Pelvis."