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That doesn't make any sense. The reason SDI is suicide to build is because the countermeasures are ridiculously cheap and compensating for them is ridiculously
by otakucode 7y ago
That doesn't make any sense. The reason SDI is suicide to build is because the countermeasures are ridiculously cheap and compensating for them is ridiculously expensive. It will always be an order of magnitude (or ten) cheaper to build more almost-free decoy warheads than it will be to expand the tracking, targetting, and interception capability of the system shooting down the 'warheads'. You just deployed a system that can handle 100 warheads at once? Next month I'll roll out 100 decoys and 50 legitimate warheads. It'll cost me $2 million and for you to handle an extra 50 will take you years and cost $2 billion. If you want your system to be effective, you have to agree to your own death by economic attrition.
- ncmncm 7y agoDo you understand what "fraudulent" means?
- DiabloD3 7y agoI believe the use of the word "fraudulent" was indeed correct here. It was a program initiated by the post-WW2 military industrial complex to use a national crisis (the Cold War) to profit and regularize excessive defense spending, as per standard neoliberal tactics of the time. The program spent a lot of money, made a lot of large visible moves, and in the end, did not produce one single thing, offensive or defensive. Tax dollars (not) at work.