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Originally Posted by crockett
Rochard as a former solder, you have to be smart enough to understand even with satellite technology like we have, they can only view so many things at one time.
While of course yes we can spot these troop movements, we can't watch them all 100% of the time. The individual surveillance of this type is usually done by drones, something the US doesn't have in place at this point.
Even Frodo was able to sneak past the Eye of Mordor..
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I completely disagree.
I have no idea what satellite technology we have "today". I might be somewhat familiar with the kinds of satellite technology we had up into the 1980s.
With that said, I've seen what technology exists today in the civilian world for tracking. They have tracking so sophisticated that when you walk in a store, they track your every moment, can tell exactly what you are looking at, and even tell when you are confused and need help and automatically send someone over to help you. If that is not enough, they can match you up to purchase, track you through your credit card, and compare your last visit to other visits. On a larger scale, local city governments track people on the streets - they assign each person an ID number and can track how many stores they went in to, how long they stayed, and even determine if they purchased something.
If you don't think the United States has a satellite technology that can track a few thousand tanks... You are kidding yourself.
Even if they did not have the technology, they would still be able to track it - just like how they tracked progress of the Russian missile bases in Cuba. They took pictures every day, and then compared pictures from one day to the next. Fast forward forty years and I am guessing they can take pictures every sixty seconds and instantly view them - and track anything they want.