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America's Grand Strategy - Militarizing Space
http://www.rense.com/general92/jdw.htm
By Stephen Lendman
9-8-10
On January 3, 2001, the UN General Assembly's Prevention of an Arms
Race in Outer Space Resolution A/55/32 said:
"The exploration and use of outer space....shall be for peaceful
purposes and be carried out for the benefit and in the interest of all
countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific
development. (The) prevention of an arms race in outer space would
avert a grave danger for international peace and security."
Over 140 nations agreed. Only two declined support, both abstaining -
America and Israel.
On August 9, 1996, in Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine,
then Commander-in-Chief US Space Command, Joseph W. Ashy asserted:
"It's politically sensitive, but it's going to happen. Some people
don't want to hear this, and it sure isn't in vogue, but - absolutely
- we're going to fight in space. We're going to fight from space and
we're going to fight into space. That's why the US has development
programs in directed energy and hit-to-kill mechanisms. We will engage
terrestrial targets someday - ships, airplanes, land targets - from
space."
On April 18, 2002, the Center for Defense Information's Theresa
Hitchens headlined, "Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian
Roulette," saying:
Weaponizing space "could actually undermine, rather than enhance,
(America's) national security....There is nothing to be gained, and
potentially much to be lost, by (pursuing) a momentous change in US
space policy."
Co-founder and coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space, Bruce Gagnon warned:
"If the US is allowed to move the arms race into space, there will be
no return. We have this one chance, this one moment in history, to
stop the weaponization of space from happening. The peace movement
must move quickly, boldly, and publicly," what so far hasn't happened,
most people mindless to the danger.
First revealed in the 1998 US Space Command document, Vision for 2020,
it was later released in 2000 as DOD Joint Vision 2020 calling for
"full spectrum dominance" over all land, surface and sub-surface sea,
air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems with
enough overwhelming power to wage and win global wars against any
adversary, including with nuclear weapons preemptively, ultimately
from space, America wanting unchallenged control.
The Pentagon's Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) plans an array of
sophisticated weapons to achieve it, some operational, others being
tested, and new ones under development for its Operations Plan (OPLAN)
8010-08 Strategic Deterrence and Global Strike use, the US Strategic
Command's (STRATCOM) Strategic War Plan.
Since at least WW II, America's strategy has been permanent war, a
topic discussed earlier, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/03/americas-permanent-war-agenda.html
On June 17, Space.com's Jeremy Hsu headlined, "Air Force Sees
Hypersonic Weapons and Spaceships in Future," saying:
"A recent (Air Force) scramjet test has hinted at a future where
hypersonic vehicles," traveling five times the speed of sound, fly
around the world and in space, an "experimental X-51A Waverider,"
achieving the longest ever Mach 5 flight on May 26, using a rocket
booster and air-breathing scramjet.
Charles Brink, head of the Air Force Research Laboratory's X-51
program envisions future hypersonic weapons flying "600 nautical miles
in 10 minutes," including in space. NASA's James Pittman, principal
investigator of its hypersonics project, hopes to have "large vehicles
for access to space using air-breathing propulsion."
Earlier X-43A hypersonic scramjet test flights reached Mach 6.8 in
March 2004 and Mach 9.6 in November that year - about 7,000 MPH. The
X-51A project uses a more sophisticated scramjet engine, but hasn't
yet matched or broken the X-43A's record, nor can it reach orbit, a
goal Boeing Phantom Works/Defense hypersonics director Joseph Vogel
hopes to achieve in the next 15 - 20 years, saying he expects the
technology will be able to fly missions not possible today, the X-51A
showing early promise.
In April, after years of development, the Air Force successfully
launched the X-37B, its robot space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft
traveling like an aircraft at Mach 5 - perhaps another future space
weapon. Global Security.org's John Pike told Space.com that projects
like the X-37B may "represent the tip of a space weapons program
hidden within the Pentagon's secret 'black budget,' or they might be
nothing more than smoke and mirrors," intended to deceive America's
rivals, fueling a space arms race, hoping they'll "waste money chasing
down dead ends."
For its part, the Air Force denies wanting the X-37B for an orbital
weapons delivery system or for surveillance. Others disagree,
journalist Sharon Weinberger saying "the most daring job of a space
plane, and the one least discussed, is (its) role (as) a bomber,
(letting it) fly over targets within an hour of launch to release
cone-shaped re-entry vehicles that would both protect and guide
weapons through the atmosphere."
It would also be able to "carry 1000 or 2000-pound re-entry vehicles
armed with precision munitions like bunker-busting penetrators or
small-diameter bombs (including mini-nukes more powerful than the atom
bombs destroying Hiroshima or Nagasaki), or simply use the explosive
impact of kinetic rods cratering at hypersonic speeds to destroy
targets."
On the other hand, the X37B's main function may be a test platform,
perhaps for developing even more destructive space weapons, part of
America's permanent war strategy, waging future ones from space, using
technologies adversaries can't match.
OPLAN-08 - The Pentagon's Strategic War Plan
OPLAN 8010-08 is a "family of plans" against six or more potential
adversaries, including Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and
other "terrorist" states. In 2002, the Bush administration asserted
the right to:
"do whatever is necessary to deter the use of (undefined) weapons of
mass destruction against the United States, its allies, and its
interests. If a weapon of mass destruction is used against the United
States or its allies, (or it such use is imminent or threatened), we
will not rule out any specific type military response," including
first-strike nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
Under Obama, the policy remains in force. His May National Security
Strategy "reserve(s) he right to act unilaterally if necessary to
defend our nation and our interests." In other words, to wage
preemptive wars, using first-strike nuclear weapons "to keep the
American people safe (and advance the nation's) values and ideals,"
ones pursuing unchallenged global and space hegemony, ruling it by
intimidation and war.
OPLAN 8010-08 - Updating SIOP
Unlike the Cold War's Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), OPLAN
8010-08 contains "more flexible options to assure allies, and
dissuade, deter, and if necessary, defeat adversaries in a wider range
of contingencies." It includes conventional strike options, but it's
mostly nuclear, custom designed for each potential adversary.
The nuclear options include the Emergency Response Options (ERO),
Selective Attack Options (SAO), Basic Attack Options (BAO), and
Directed/Adaptive Planning Capability (DPO/APO) options, specific
details, of course, highly classified.
Options range from limited ones to massive "shock and awe" strikes
against many targets, by manned and drone aircraft, ICBMs, and from
attack submarines and surface ships, using hundreds of strategically
located warheads.
The Pentagon's National Target Base includes four categories -
military forces, WMD infrastructure, military and national leadership,
and war supporting infrastructure - a post Cold War strategy to deter
all so-called WMDs, the Bush administration saying America:
"has made it clear for many years that it reserves the right to
respond with overwhelming force to the use of weapons of mass
destruction against the United States, our people, our forces and our
friends and allies. Additionally, the United States will hold any
state, terrorist group, or other non-state actor fully accountable for
supporting or enabling terrorist efforts to obtain or use weapons of
mass destruction, whether by facilitating, financing, or providing
expertise or safe haven for such efforts."
The policy remains unchanged under Obama, OPLAN 8010-08 for preventive
or retaliatory "strategic deterrence" and preemptive "global strike."
STRATCOM describes the former as its "first line of operation....that
includes nuclear force operations." The latter expands national and
theater operations globally, the terms Prompt Global Strike and Global
Strike used interchangeably, whether with conventional or nuclear
weapons, or if prompt or deliberate.
The Air Force's nuclear/conventional command is called Global Strike
Command, using America's full attack capabilities to destroy targets,
including WMDs preemptively, STRATCOM's counterproliferation strategy
designed to destroy all WMDs "before they can be used....(a)
preemptive....counterforce....or offensively reactive" strategy.
While claiming to "put an end to Cold War thinking (by) reduc(ing) the
role and number of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy,"
Obama's National Security Strategy puts old wine in new bottles,
rebranding it to appear softer while keeping hardline policies in
place, backed by a growing arsenal of globally positioned
sophisticated weapons, asserting the right to use them preemptively
against perceived threats.
During the Cold War, MAD (mutually assured destruction) held both
sides at bay. Today's strategy includes "more flexible options (for) a
wider range of contingencies (with weapons) to optimize performance,"
meaning destroy an adversary's capabilities preemptively, then target
another.
With America on a nuclear hair-trigger, it's reinvented MAD in new
form, threatening potential global nuclear winter, defined as "a long
period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would
follow a full-scale nuclear war, a layer of dust and smoke in the
atmosphere cover(ing) the earth and block(ing) the rays of the sun,
(causing) most living organisms (to) perish."
Anti-nuclear expert Helen Caldicott says "one single failure of
nuclear deterrence could end human history (quickly). Once initiated,
it would take one hour to trigger a swift, sudden end to life on this
planet." Only nuclear disarmament and abolition of nuclear weapons can
stop it.
In their joint July 1955 Manifesto, Albert Einstein and Bertrand
Russell put the nuclear threat bluntly:
"Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and
dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or
shall mankind renounce war? (The) best authorities are unanimous that
a war with H-bombs (or today's arsenal) might possibly put an end to
the human race." For some, it will be instant, but "the majority (will
experience) a slow torture of disease and disintegration." It's our
choice. So far we've made it badly.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at
sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with
distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the
Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and
Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy
listening.
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
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On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
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