Why Israel Needs Star Wars, and We Do Too

If you live in a dangerous neighborhood, you have to be prepared to fight all the time.  And if you live in a dangerous neighborhood and flinch at the sight of your own blood, well, you had better have the best possible weaponry–including armor–on your side. To avoid getting bloodied, you had better do everything possible to maintain a technology-based margin of safety. Indeed, optimal strategy tells you to focus on such technology, because in the end technology, no matter how expensive, is cheaper than spilled blood.

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