[Aussie Dasher]

The Great Ronald Reagan is no longer with us, but his legacy lives on in so many ways!

[cyclotic]

Awesome stuff.

Makes me miss Reagan even more and more thankful every day.

[Uncle Ike]

President Reagan's strategy was excellent, even brilliant, and successful in defeating the Soviet Union in the '80's...

Unfortunately, this ain't the 80's, and the enemy we face is not laboring under a "force-on-force parity" strategy.

To try to draw parallels between these two entirely different strategic problems is specious, at best.....

[Christopher Lincoln]

It was inevitable that Communism would fall - it simply was not a system under which human beings could live indefinitely. What was not at all inevitable was that it would fail to bring civilization down with it in its fall. Ronald Reagan deserves a good deal of the credit for this outcome.

[true_blue_texican]

bttt

[grey_whiskers]

In one dramatic example only recently shared by NSC staffer Tom Reed to Washington Post reporter David Hoffman, in the summer of 1982 rigged software triggered a huge explosion in the gigantic Siberian gas pipeline—an extremely expensive project designed to provide the USSR with essential hard currency. The software was designed to pass Soviet quality-acceptance tests, to work temporarily, and then to malfunction. The software that ran the pumps, turbines, and valves in the pipeline was programmed to produce pressures beyond the capacity of the pipeline’s joints.

And now we see the source of one of the main plot elements of Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising -- except he used Muslim engineers to do it from a refinery's control room.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Oh, yes, compare this with China. Our corporate executives have order their workers to hand over all of the state-of-the-art industrial process know-how to the Chicoms.

(Read an article a year or two back quoting a Procter&Gamble engineer to that effect...)

So China will shortly use that technique on us (spyware/malware bombs embedded in Lenovo chips, say?)

NO cheers, unfortunately.

[Gritty]

Reagan and his people were geniuses and patriotic Americans. It's no wonder Liberals despise them.

Some more information on this ingenious strategy and other Reagan strategies against the USSR are in the following book...

Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union