> We should be willing to share space-based early warning data and technology with the Russians to head off this crisis.
That's interesting to think about. It makes logical sense at first, but I doubt it is realistic.
Thinking about it some more, it seems having a better detection capability means having a higher chance of shooting the missiles down. That can then be used by the aggressor to dampen a retaliatory attack. (Say we give it to Russia. They attack first. Then when we retaliate, they use our advanced system to know the trajectories of the incoming missiles and use that to shoot them down. Our retaliatory attack fails and we lose).
That's interesting to think about. It makes logical sense at first, but I doubt it is realistic.
Thinking about it some more, it seems having a better detection capability means having a higher chance of shooting the missiles down. That can then be used by the aggressor to dampen a retaliatory attack. (Say we give it to Russia. They attack first. Then when we retaliate, they use our advanced system to know the trajectories of the incoming missiles and use that to shoot them down. Our retaliatory attack fails and we lose).