From: John Beckett 

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

John

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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> > 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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