Re: Slow Stealth

So the basic objection to Jack's original post (snipping out the mess
about mirrors that Dwight started) is that any species with A.) the
ability to maneuver asteroids wherever they want, is also a species
with B.) the ability to identify and destroy dangerous asteroids.
Therefore, asteroids wouldn't be an effective weapon against such a
civilization, even if they don't have C.) the ability to detect and
track all asteroids in their home system.  And they would have to have
C if they had A and B.

Have I got this right?

John Schilling also mentions "We've seen plenty of proposals for that
sort of thing, all of them assuming the attacker has extensive and
highly sophisticated space
infrastructure and the target is the United States of America of
roughly 2000 AD."  Jack, would that work for what you have in mind?  A
high-tech culture picking on a low-tech one, and deciding to be
stealthy for political reasons rather than fear of retaliation?  Of
course, you'd almost certainly have to scratch the "massive Terran
space fleet that 20 years later non-stealthily nukes the Republick
into near-extinction"...