From: Adam 

John Beckett wrote:
> I think Phil has made a pretty clear case for the need for a pre-emptive
> strike on Iran. Thanks Phil!
>

Followed by many Iranian retaliatory strikes esp against the southern gulf
& Iraqi oil fields, American bases in the area etc.

& then......& then & then....

w/o UN approval the initial act would be illegal & I can't see the
Russians & Chinese saying OK.

Adam

> John
>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news::
>>> I repeat though, the countries to watch are those with
rocket/"space"
>>> programs.
>> Very much disagree.
>>
>> Drone delivery is becoming extremely cheap compared with ballistic delivery.
>> GPS units can be bought almost for pence - Google's Earth and Map projects
>> have already been used for gross terrain mapping - vide the maps of terrain
>> loss versus sea level rises I posted recently.
>>
>> You want to navigate a small nuke to within a hundred yards?  Send someone
>> in on foot to triangulate the nearest cellphone antennae.  Then bring the
>> thing close to the coast in an innocuous container and shoot it from the
>> ship.  You could probably do a couple of dozen for the price of an ICBM.
>>
>> You no longer need a nuclear submarine to mount this sort of attack, and
>> noticeably Iran has been developing some quite outstanding local delivery
>> systems.  It's not the continental USSR versus the continental USA any more.
>>
>> The USA can switch GPS off at will.  But not Magellan.  Or GSM.  Or the
>> plethora of AM stations in the USA.
>>
>> Electronic capability is exploding, and there and no national, cultural or
>> religious restrictions on cleverness.
>>
>

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