So David...
Perhaps we should be thinking what / who was / is in the Norwegian
mountains then! . I don't buy the flying high / can't see line
though - what a coincidence that the Embassy was hit by a -- random--
missile...
On aspect (...at a time...) that I find extraordinary is the Chinese
utilisation of the Embassy debacle as a means to get directly
involved rather than taking a positive role much much earlier.
Does anyone know what positions the Chinese have been taking over the
last few months - any info sources I could look at?
Gavin
> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:48:38 +0100
> Subject: RE: NATO's map archives
> From: David Wood <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Reply-to: David Wood <[log in to unmask]>
> I loved Hilary's posting. The sad thing is that many people will believe
> NATO's excuse. The US has the most sophisitcated surveillance and
> intelligence- gathering system ever seen on this planet, with satellites
> able to take photographs (or their infra-red and radar equivalents) from
> which car registration numbers can be seen, even through thick cloud almost
> anywhere in the world. However most people are still under the impression
> that the US space program is all about weather-forecasting, 'the final
> frontier' and finding extra-terrestrial life.
>
> This doesn't necessarially mean that they can get their missiles to hit the
> right targets though. I don't know if anyone remembers back in the
> mid-eighties when the US were testing their new generation of Cruise
> missiles, they kept getting lost in the Norwegian mountains...
>
> One of the main problems with a lot of these 'accidents' is that the US
> planes are simply flying too high to be able to target accurately, so great
> is Clinton's fear of losing even one US life (and especially not one of
> their $1.4 Billion B-2 'Stealth' Bombers - yes that is the right amount!
> Ironically these things are actually designed to be flown low, because they
> are supposedly invisible to radar, they just can't target from these
> heights).
>
> Mind you, I bet there were several Generals smiling to themselves that they
> had managed to hit the Chinese Embassy.
>
>
> Well, this is what you get with the new 'moral' war.
>
>
> David.
>
> David Wood
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> Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing
> University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Dr Gavin Parker
School of Management Studies
University of Surrey
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