How do Israel and the world deal with the scourge of ballistic missiles?

When I had a project at 3M many years ago, I heard some of the engineers there talking about the “problem of the last mile.” I asked them what they meant. This was in the days of AOl, well before AOC. They said that it did not matter how fast internet or telephone cables on the outside are; the slowest part of the system is that from the house wall to the phone and it determines the overall speed. This problem is true of many systems, where one component reduces the overall performance of the whole.

In 1937, Guernica, Spain, became the first town intentionally attacked with a massive aerial bombing raid. The Spanish Civil War was used by the various sides to hone their methods and skills that eventually were put to use a few years later in World War II. The Luftwaffe performed aerial saturation bombing of the Spanish city, marking the first time that a civilian population was bombed from the air. The Germans would continue with these methods over other European cities, and they added V1 buzz bombs and V2 ballistic missiles to add new means for murdering civilians. The V1 was the first cruise missile, while the V2 was the father of all ballistic missiles to follow.

In World War II, there was absolutely no way to protect against a V2 rocket. The most that the Allies could do was lie about its landing position, so that the Nazis would either shorten or lengthen the path and miss London or similar targets. We still live in the age of the ballistic missile against civilians. I have not heard the International Criminal Court threaten Iran over its intentional targeting of Israeli civilians. Maybe they hope that the Iranians will kill the Israeli leadership and save them from having to continue the prosecution/persecution of Bibi Netanyahu and his lieutenants.

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