Father Jack HackettPoint taken and I'm very cogniscent of how capable the Taliban are on their home turf. But they are only one specific type of foe. When you look at some of the rather more potent capabilities of some of their immediate neighbours (Iran - nearly-nuclear, double-digit SAMs et al, bonkers; Pakistan - very actually nuclear with great internal instabilities) it makes one think that the next war (god forbid) could look very different to the current war.....
Lets face it you do not even need to lob them at any country, detonate a few in space and not only is the space programme screwed, but all of the technology that the likes of the west now depend on from simple GPS to telecommunications and spy satellites are instantly gone....... levelling the playing field.
You instantly lose the likes of the predators for example that use satellites to talk to home base, think of what we use these days that links in real time or relies on satellites, it would be frightening, and of course you would bring crashing down major companies that rely on it from telecommunications to Tv channels....... frightning indeed.