Re: [OT] Re: Re: New paper on Security and Obscurity

[Stormwalker <bruen () coldrain net>]

Hi,

 It wasn't the general, massive military build up, but the specific 
program known as Star Wars under Ronald Raygun. The Soviets believed 
that the nonsense was true and tried to fund the research to catch up 
until they hit the wall. Unlike real military weapons, a fake weapon 
is controlled by the imagination, so there no limits to what was possible. 

          cheers, bob

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
> snip... 
> Likewise, the argument is often made that the United States' military 
> build-up led the Soviet Union into a bankrupt state and thus, according 
> to the argument, massive military build-up is a good thing.  This 
> argument *completely* ignores the fact that it was military build-up 
> that caused economic problems for the Soviets.  Proponents of this 
> argument seem to believe that the economic rules to be applied are 
> entirely different between the Soviet Union and the United States and 
> that our capitalist nature brings forth an endless well of production.

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