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89. In the Yom Kipper war, AA missiles were used offensively.

Basically the Egyptians used their Anti Aircraft missiles to provide cover over the battlefield. Thus ground forces, as long as those forces stayed under the AA missile defense, can attack, then wait for the AA missiles to move forward to cover the ground forces further advance. The Egyptians offensive failed when to relieve Israeli attacks on Syria forces, the Egyptians moved beyond their AA defense. This opened up those forces to massive air attacks, and permitted the subsequent Israeli advance cross the Suez Canal.

My point is a defense weapon often permitts offensive operations. The same with Star Wars, it can restrict the use of Russian missiles to destroyed supply bases, thus destroying Russia's best defense, to destroy the supply system for any NATO ground force attack.

Defense is often the best way to cover and support an offensive force. Thus this missile defense attacks the best way to end the ability of NATO or the US to maintain an attack on Russia. Thus a missile defense protects offensive operations and that is why Russia will always oppose missile defense that close to its borders.

If these forces were truly defensive, there be no need for such a defensive force outside North America. If you wanted to include NATO, what use to be West East Germany would be as near to the borders of Russia you would have to do to cover NATO, Including Poland.

In the days of old, true defensive forts were always beyound the range of artillery. Thus the fort's guns could only hit within that country's border, and any attacking force would have to move guns into the country being attacked. You do not have that with missile defense, it can cover missiles while with inside Russia. That is offensive in nature not defensive.

The problem is not the technology behind missile defense, but the forward positioning of those missiles. Thus putting them in Germany, Russia would have no objection, but in Romania and Poland is just to close. The problem is placement not the technology.