Posted by jamesgibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Why-is-SHADO-entirely-defensive-tp1503313p1503330.html

Natasha Bell wrote:

> The best defense is a good offense. The best way to defend
> against attack is to go on the offensive.
>

That depends on the situation, really. UFO attacks against Earth
are fairly limited - we are primarily their prey, not their enemy.
If we start lobbing weapons at them on their own planet and become
a threat that would most likely change.

In any case, the intelligence-gathering exercise required to
identify viable targets on the Alien homeworld would be
extraordinarily difficult at that distance, and so would any
offensive mission.

Remember that it might be home to many different species,
civilisations and cultures, just as Earth is, and many of its
inhabitants might have nothing whatever to do with attacks against
Earth.