Sander Vesik wrote:
Jake McGuire wrote:
Then, avoiding the issue of what parts of the US one could threaten
with 50-mile-range artillery rockets, we certainly wouldn't use the NMD
against them.

You can threaten pretty much all of the US with them. Its a question
of placement.

I don't think that the American military, police and
counter-intelligence forces are going to let an enemy place 50-mile
range artillery rockets _within her own borders_. A terrorist
organization might, through serious planning, manage to get a few in
and carry out some sort of attack, but there is no way that they could
covertly transport and emplace more than a few, so such an attack would
be purely for propaganda purposes.

IRBM-s with reaonable accuracy have been made in cheap factories in
bulk in the past. Doing so becomes easier each year.

Where exactly are you going to base significant numbers of IRBM's in
range of the American homeland? You seem to be forgetting the
existence of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ... rather a serious
geographical omission!

- Jordan