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With just the direct quotes here, I’m not sure what your claim is. Are you saying that the US _still_ was attempting to achieve maximum capability as of April 2
by pinkmuffinere 1y ago
With just the direct quotes here, I’m not sure what your claim is. Are you saying that the US _still_ was attempting to achieve maximum capability as of April 2001? If so, I’m not sure that is implied by the quotes provided. “The cumulative effect of dominance in…” does not imply that every deployed US system is the best, imo. I read it as saying the US dominates in all the listed regimes — not that each individual system is the best, but that the US is the best in each regime as a whole. There’s a subtle difference between the two
- lurk2 1y agoI just found it funny that there was a sense in this paper that America could no longer afford to be #1 across every domain, and that all of that seemed to go out the window as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoAh I see, lol