To: null and void
"It is sufficient that it introduces uncertainty into a potential opponent's calculations."
Precisely.
Though it does help that along with the enemy's new uncertainty of our defensive capability, that the enemy also has to know with certainty that we will retaliate offensively with a nuclear response EVEN IF their nuclear attack is entirely shot down.
12 posted on
07/17/2005 8:31:38 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
Though it does help that along with the enemy's new uncertainty of our defensive capability, that the enemy also has to know with certainty that we will retaliate offensively with a nuclear response EVEN IF their nuclear attack is entirely shot down. We will respond -not react- in a time, place, and manner that suits our needs. They will get to sweat as long as that pleases us, not one millisecond longer.
16 posted on
07/17/2005 8:37:52 PM PDT by
null and void
(You'll learn more on FR by accident, than other places by design)
To: Southack; neverdem; Fedora
Though it does help that along with the enemy's new uncertainty of our defensive capability, that the enemy also has to know with certainty that we will retaliate offensively with a nuclear response EVEN IF their nuclear attack is entirely shot down.
I LOVE the smell of Star Wars in the morning!
Beats the fatalistic "Mutual Assured Destruction" mantra of my old polisci classes of the '70s.
26 posted on
07/17/2005 9:06:24 PM PDT by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson