By the way”assessment” meant my personal opinion, my personal “assessment”, nobody was hiring me or paying me to be an expert in the mid and late 1970s.
I used to read like Tom Clancy and was obsessed with that material, I was not surprised during the mid 1980s to learn that I knew a lot and was right, it even raised some suspicious eyebrows on some of the people in the MI Battalion that my unit worked for.
I think Clancy ran into the same problem, “where are you getting this information”?
Funny, remember reading years ago on FR about Clancy's "Sum of all Fears" and that a Freeper had corrected some of his blatant errors on nuke design. With a passing knowledge of the designs, I spotted the glitches, but ya never know. Before my time on FR so I missed the thread.
There is a lot out there in open source and not hard to make connections if you are inclined. Some years ago when I had access to classified briefings, it was amusing to see the same or similar info elsewhere (AvWk cough cough).
As time goes on, I do have to be careful to separate what I remember as to where it came from. Some is so outdated it certainly no longer matters, but these days, ya never know who is listening.
Schultz mode on:
I know nothing, nothing!
/Schultz