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In article <ewright.726514832@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>>It is not for nothing DARPA has a love with microsats and ways to get them
>>quickly into orbit. And what DARPA is doing is in the sunshine. 
>
>Microsats are incapable of replacing photorecon satellites.  The
>laws of physics prevent it.  To get adequate resolution, you need
>a large mirror (or large radar)...

Define "adequate".  Microsat levels of resolution should be adequate
for many military requirements.  Tactical commanders don't care about
the license-plate numbers on the tanks...

>>... We really didn't NEED to get the UN's blessing, did we?
>
>Of course we didn't.  The United States has gone to war numerous
>times in the past.  It has never needed permission of the United
>Nations before.  It was George Bush who set that (dangerous) precendent.

Careful here...  I don't know exactly what legal maneuvers took place
when the US formally joined the UN, but if the UN Charter has the status
of a Senate-ratified treaty, that means it has the force of law in the
US... and one of the clauses in there is a renunciation of war as an
instrument of national policy.

Of course, that just means everybody calls it a "police action" instead...
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