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From: medin@nike.UUCP (Milo S. Medin)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.politics
Subject: Re: Aviation Week on Star Wars
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Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 20:00:58 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 20:00:58 1986
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Keywords: deterrence will
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Summary: national will


When did the USSR risk its survival on an analysis of anyone's
will, much less the US's?  How about the Cuban missile crisis?
The USSR bet that Kennedy wouldn't act.  He did.  It's precisely
this type of action that a indecisive foreign policy encourages.
The USSR would not have tried it if they knew what Kennedy was
going to do...  That is, they were not deterred by the US's
overwhelming superiority because they thought Kennedy wouldn't
use it.


					Milo