At 12:43 PM 7/17/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
>Of course, as someone else pointed out in the parallel thread, the
>diplomats thought of it as well, and limited airspace to a hundred
>somethings (can't remember what. Kilometres I assume. If it was miles
>some eccentric-orbit spy satellites might get into the airspace. Though
>it is hard to imagine the CIA paying their Iraqi taxbill for
>reconnaissance overflights).
Yes and 'territorial waters' are defined by the range of ship
to shore artillery (of past). 100 km was once ununattainable,
ergo indefensable, ergo written off by the 'diplomats'
Things change. There's rockets hitting rockets up there now.
