U.S. Reckless Moves for Space War under Fire

[jjcarroll]

The U.S. imperialists are disclosing their wild ambition to misuse modern science and technology for turning outer space into a theatre for carrying out their strategy for world supremacy, observes Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article. It says:
The warlike Bush administration is putting spurs to the militarization of outer space by spending a stupendous amount of funds despite unanimous rebuff and opposition of the public at home and abroad.
The U.S. is now hell bent on the moves to militarize space in quest of its world supremacy.
The U.S. Department of Defense is pushing forward at a final stage the development of air-based laser weapons capable of destroying inter-continental ballistic missiles at the phase of their acceleration under the plan to expand the Missile Defense System not only on the ground but in outer space in the days ahead.

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[sackville]

Fits is nicely with the whole PNAC-inspired "full spectrum dominance" lark

"I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as 'full spectrum dominance'. That is not my term, it is theirs. 'Full spectrum dominance' means control of land, sea, air and space and all attendant resources."

[cyberianpan]

Is the whole star wars programme a wind-up ? I'm quite skeptical that it bears any relation to reality. I'd like to see any of it described in anything approaching useful detail.

cYp

[jmcc]

Is the whole star wars programme a wind-up ? I'm quite skeptical that it bears any relation to reality. I'd like to see any of it described in anything approaching useful detail.

Wouldn't you have to have some kind of Cosmic clearance for that? Space has always been militarised.

Regards...jmcc

[AFJROTC Cadet]

So, invest in companys that get contracts from the U.S.govt

then its good

[The OD]

Weird! I'm actually sitting here reading 'The Star Fraction' by Ken McLeod which, funnily enough, has the theme of 'SD' or Space Defence, a series of orbital guns which enforce 'peace' on a very strange world, set not too far into the future. Its quite chilling to be reading the reality of it now as the grim US/UN controlled future has some parts that are likely.

From Wikipedia:

The Star Fraction is Ken MacLeod's first novel. The action takes place in the UK, about halfway into the 21st century. The world is controlled by the US/UN, a sort of benign meta-dictatorship which doesn't so much rule directly, as enforce a series of basic laws on a vast number of microstates. Many of the microstates are in a near-constant state of low-intensity warfare. Among the laws enforced on them is a prohibition on certain directions of research, such as intelligence augmentation or artificial intelligence; precisely what is prohibited is of course secret, and as violation of the prohibitions will result in swift and efficient death of everyone directly involved, scientific research is a dangerous proposition at best.

The novel is notable for its treatment of revolution. The main characters - a trotskyist mercenary, a libertarian teenager from a fundamentalist microstate, and an idealistic scientist - find themselves caught up at the center of a global revolution against the US/UN. Events may cause the paranoid US/UN to make a 'clean break' with the earth, knocking the planet back to the stone age with the orbital defense lasers.

Before anyone moans about the spoiler warning, all this is dealt with in the first 40-50 pages, I am only half way through so I dont know whats coming?

[Gladstone]

a missile shield is hardly "space warfare"

They're just trying to protect their country from ballistic missiles, in fact I'd prefer they kept to DEfensive military operations like this, as opposed to the imperialst wars they seem to constantly start.