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To: Poohbah; belmont_mark; backhoe; rightwing2
The fact that you felt the urge to describe the Su-30MKK and the DF-31 as "revolutionary technological upgrades" proves that you're alarmist.

I haven't... yet. But, clearly Bill Gertz and his inside defense Dept. sources feel that these deployments are militarily significant. And it is reasonable to classify them as revolutionary compared, respectively, to their previous best technologies, such as the Mig-21s, and the 24 or so liquid-fueled CSS4 ICBMs. This is because they do offer substantial and undeniable operational improvements in their war-fighting potential..... which poses increased military stress against our allies, and hence us too...since it is well known we are no longer able to fight two major wars at a time. [With apologies to Donald Rumsfeld, who was speaking contrarily for good and sufficient reasons. But not truthfully.]

104 posted on 02/20/2003 7:50:34 PM PST by Paul Ross (From the State Looking Forward to Global Warming! Let's Drown France!)
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To: Paul Ross
But, clearly Bill Gertz and his inside defense Dept. sources feel that these deployments are militarily significant.

I never denied that it was. I merely point out that, even with the significant improvements in capability that these weapon systems would afford, China still has a very weak military posture relative to ours.

105 posted on 02/20/2003 7:54:05 PM PST by Poohbah (Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
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