tdadamemd-spamblock-@exc
wrote:

From Alan Anderson:

Many of us probably won't *agree* with it, any more than we agree that GPS
is a space-based offensive weapons system, but at least we might know
where you're coming from.

Please note the distinction between a space-based offensive weapons
system versus a space-based system that offers offensive weapons
capability.

Well, no, what you said is tantamount to what Alan said, almost the same
thing. All the weapon systems that you mentioned, including the U.S.
nuclear triad, already had massive amounts of "offensive weapons
capability", before GPS was implemented, as the U.S. nuclear triad could
have destroyed the Soviet Union several times over. Therefore, GPS did
-not- "offer offensive weapons capability".

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