Uh, I'd like to hear your reasoning for counting an ICBM as a direct fire weapon. Further, are you so familiar with the authors work that you feel it can be di

Uh, I'd like to hear your reasoning for counting an ICBM as a direct fire weapon. Further, are you so familiar with the authors work that you feel it can be dismissed with little more than a wave of the hand? A wave that by the way states that the period of time containing both all the geopolitical effects of the end of the cold war (those certainly appeared after 1990) and the two longest running wars in US history is "peaceful" with only "minor geopolitical changes". I at least feel the author deserves more credit for actually trying to do some quantitative work, instead of just making a snarky comment of little substance.