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It means that it's adequate considering the threat they're facing.

As far as I'm concerned. Yes, they are. There has not been one documented case of abuse. Now, that is not going to satisfy the detractors but I really don't care. There's no proof and before anyone says that I have such a warm heart. I don't. I couldn't care less about those staying at...

It's a dog and pony show. No one is going to see squat.

You were asking are there any other threat perception the Saudi have. The House of Saud does not have absolute control over its people; especially now they have declared war on al Qeida and by extension, the Wahhabis.

A PLAAF regiment is only 24 planes.

Highly doubtful that they could take out the 1st rocket unless they have birds already overhead. By the time the rocket reaches Korean or Japanese weapons free range, it would already be hypersonic speeds. No anti-missile is going to catch it. At least none on that side of the Pacific.

They know where to attack to stop another launch.

As stated repeatedly, the guys at Gitmo are being treated according to the Geneva Conventions and the GC does not require charges nor a ruling in a court of law. You can be held as long as the war is going on and the War on Terror ain't ending anytime soon.

The sooner you detect it, the sooner you know where it's going.

Fulda Gap is not a graveyard.

BULL CRAP! There is no such thing as luck. Enemy incompetence is not something we relied on. At every engagement level in Iraq, we ENSURED we had local superiority and that's because we WON the recee battle at every level. And don't tell me about combat and how superior I feel we are. I've lost...

Launch event

20+ years of PLA watching.

How about waiting to see if this is really a TD-2.

There was never any evidence that 092 ever went on active patrol. The suggestion is that it was a test bed for 094. Most certainly no 092 tour ever went out for more than 2 weeks

VX Gas - VX is a weapon of mass destruction that spreads and kills. There has been no launch exercise ever. It's own people.

Whoever the head hancho is. At the time, Mao Tse-Tung. The military was not always on the up-&-up. The Lin Bao fiasco really downgraded the PLA's standing. The GPCR further degraded them though they did recover to fight the Red Guards. Deng Xia Peng saw them as an overbloated dinosaur and took...

Nie Rongzhen (Inside Red Star) described in the early days of the PLA a debate between strategic nuclear programs and the more conventional tanks, planes, artillery, boots, uniforms, hats, blankets, actual warfighting materials the military was actually favouring ... at the expense of the...

The original assessement for these rockets were to arm them with VX as a deterant against Israeli nukes.

No, not even today. The 2nd Artillery Force only has operational control over the delivery vehicles, not the nukes themselves. The nukes are stored away from the 2AF and is under the Central Military Commission, ie civilian, control and guards. At no time in its entire history were 2AF assets...