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Re: North Korea Practice????
CNN story here on the Kauai test, which involved the cooperation of a Japanese warship. Says that sea-based intercept system tests have succeeded seven out of eight times... compared to the five-out-of-ten record of land-based systems. So perhaps it's not as bad as I thought. Though at this point, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley says only that the $11 billion system has "some limited operational capability."
The U.S. test was scheduled long before all this brouhaha with North Korea, but it's lovely timing nonetheless. "Don't you dare conduct missle tests, Pyongyang," Uncle Sam says. "Now, everybody, check this out!"
I still think the possibility that we could knock down a N. Korean test missile doesn't mean that actually doing so (or trying to do so) would be the best response.
All countries, the U.S. included, test their military capabilities all the time. Our tests span oceans and involve several allies. But another country taking direct action to disrupt such tests (drills, wargames, etc.) would probably be interpreted as an unequivocably hostile act... and grounds for a response, which would prompt another response...
CNN story here on the Kauai test, which involved the cooperation of a Japanese warship. Says that sea-based intercept system tests have succeeded seven out of eight times... compared to the five-out-of-ten record of land-based systems. So perhaps it's not as bad as I thought. Though at this point, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley says only that the $11 billion system has "some limited operational capability."
The U.S. test was scheduled long before all this brouhaha with North Korea, but it's lovely timing nonetheless. "Don't you dare conduct missle tests, Pyongyang," Uncle Sam says. "Now, everybody, check this out!"
I still think the possibility that we could knock down a N. Korean test missile doesn't mean that actually doing so (or trying to do so) would be the best response.
All countries, the U.S. included, test their military capabilities all the time. Our tests span oceans and involve several allies. But another country taking direct action to disrupt such tests (drills, wargames, etc.) would probably be interpreted as an unequivocably hostile act... and grounds for a response, which would prompt another response...
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