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Authors: John Lasker
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needed “power projection in, from and through space.” What that means is, the US should someday be able to maneuver a satellite over a target on Earth’s surface and melt it with a future particle beam. At the time, Rumsfeld hadn't even been appointed Bush’s Secretary of Defense yet.
Apparently, Rumsfeld was certain the enemies of the free world could wipe-out the US’s 400-plus number of satellites. Nuclear detonations in Earth’s orbits are plausible. It is a space-combat related strategy both Russia and the Chinese have prepped for, but would they ruin the orbits surrounding Earth for centuries to come? Or was Rumsfeld in many a defense contractor’s pocket? The Rumsfeld report indeed had major corporate influence: 7 of the 13 commissioners of the report were either working for defense contractors, or used to work for the defense industry.
As mentioned earlier, the US military contends in no way, shape or form is it developing space weapons. But what was so blatant at the start of the Bush era, was the Pentagon’s call for commencing the era of space combat. In 2000, the Air Force’s “Transformation Plan” asserted more firmly than ever that the Air Force intends to weaponize space. Indeed, all sorts of high-profiled US military officers and their commission studies were pushing for space weapons during the early days of the Bush administration. “In my view it will not be long before space is a battleground,” said in 2003 Lt. Gen. Edward Anderson, who at the time was head of US Northern Command.
Others weren’t willing to wait another second. “The time to weaponize and administer space for the good of global commerce is now, when the United States could do so without fear of an arms race there,” said Everett Dolman, Associate Professor of Comparative Military Studies, at Maxwell AFB in Alabama, during a 2004 interview with Space.com. “Space weaponization can work. It will be very expensive. But the rewards for the state that weaponizes first and establishes itself at the top of the Earth's gravity well, garnering all the many advantages that the high ground has always provided in war – will find the benefits worth the costs.” Dolman also made this statement in his book: “Who controls Low-Earth Orbit controls Near-Earth space. Who controls Near-Earth space dominates Terra. Who dominates Terra determines the destiny of humankind.”
Even at the end of the Bush administration, considered by many to be one of America’s worst, the MDA was still pushing for weapons in space. A constellation of killer satellites would just “be another layer in the missile defense,” said MDA’s leader Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering in 2008. The Pentagon during the Bush administration once even planned for a constellation of 50 to 100 killer satellites to begin production in 2016. If such a plan were ever approved by Congress it would mean billions for Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
Full Spectrum Dominance in pace is still being championed by many factions in the Air Force and the Pentagon. But not everyone, said Hitchens of the Center for Defense Information. Yet because China has publicly admitted it’s developing anti- satellite capabilities and then shot down its own satellite in 2007, “these Space Hawks are emboldened now,” said Hitchens. But the outcome of their space desires is nowhere close to being decided, she said. Because there are some factions within the Air Force, the Pentagon, against space domination, she said.
“There is a debate ongoing about the wisdom, the affordability and the do-ability about implementing a full-up space-war fighting strategy,” she said. The cost to create, launch, and maintain a Full Spectrum Dominance program in space would run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, she said. First you
Apparently, Rumsfeld was certain the enemies of the free world could wipe-out the US’s 400-plus number of satellites. Nuclear detonations in Earth’s orbits are plausible. It is a space-combat related strategy both Russia and the Chinese have prepped for, but would they ruin the orbits surrounding Earth for centuries to come? Or was Rumsfeld in many a defense contractor’s pocket? The Rumsfeld report indeed had major corporate influence: 7 of the 13 commissioners of the report were either working for defense contractors, or used to work for the defense industry.
As mentioned earlier, the US military contends in no way, shape or form is it developing space weapons. But what was so blatant at the start of the Bush era, was the Pentagon’s call for commencing the era of space combat. In 2000, the Air Force’s “Transformation Plan” asserted more firmly than ever that the Air Force intends to weaponize space. Indeed, all sorts of high-profiled US military officers and their commission studies were pushing for space weapons during the early days of the Bush administration. “In my view it will not be long before space is a battleground,” said in 2003 Lt. Gen. Edward Anderson, who at the time was head of US Northern Command.
Others weren’t willing to wait another second. “The time to weaponize and administer space for the good of global commerce is now, when the United States could do so without fear of an arms race there,” said Everett Dolman, Associate Professor of Comparative Military Studies, at Maxwell AFB in Alabama, during a 2004 interview with Space.com. “Space weaponization can work. It will be very expensive. But the rewards for the state that weaponizes first and establishes itself at the top of the Earth's gravity well, garnering all the many advantages that the high ground has always provided in war – will find the benefits worth the costs.” Dolman also made this statement in his book: “Who controls Low-Earth Orbit controls Near-Earth space. Who controls Near-Earth space dominates Terra. Who dominates Terra determines the destiny of humankind.”
Even at the end of the Bush administration, considered by many to be one of America’s worst, the MDA was still pushing for weapons in space. A constellation of killer satellites would just “be another layer in the missile defense,” said MDA’s leader Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering in 2008. The Pentagon during the Bush administration once even planned for a constellation of 50 to 100 killer satellites to begin production in 2016. If such a plan were ever approved by Congress it would mean billions for Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
Full Spectrum Dominance in pace is still being championed by many factions in the Air Force and the Pentagon. But not everyone, said Hitchens of the Center for Defense Information. Yet because China has publicly admitted it’s developing anti- satellite capabilities and then shot down its own satellite in 2007, “these Space Hawks are emboldened now,” said Hitchens. But the outcome of their space desires is nowhere close to being decided, she said. Because there are some factions within the Air Force, the Pentagon, against space domination, she said.
“There is a debate ongoing about the wisdom, the affordability and the do-ability about implementing a full-up space-war fighting strategy,” she said. The cost to create, launch, and maintain a Full Spectrum Dominance program in space would run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, she said. First you
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