In sci.space.policy Revision wrote:

"Jim Oberg"

Russia and US space cooperation:
Who pays the bill?
04/14/2005 15:23
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/...288_space.html


The concrete plans of the Pentagon mirror
the intentions of Bush administration to
accelerate space exploration for the benefit of the
national security.

If you occupy space, possess smart weapons, and have total situational
awareness, then an opponent is either going to think twice about engaging

Except that the smart weapons are more or less anything but and
nobody cares for yet another inoperable satellite

forces, or face a quick defeat when hostilities commence, without the US

provided teh US forces didn't run out of ammo midway through,
didn't blow themselves up or coillapse from exhaution and
depresssion...

having to resort to the nuclear option. So that leaves an adversary with
a couple of options... terror attack, or nuclear attack, neither of which
has a viable defense as far as I know. And then there also the political

Neither of which is needed anyways.

environment in the US that insists on low-priced energy in large
quantities, and the concurrent erosion of cultural and economic strength
due to unregulated immiigration. The national security impact of these
last two items seems at least equal or of greater impact than the
possibility of external attack, in my opinion.

There is no need fopr an external attack - wave enough US foreign dept
before teh noses of the congressmen and they will bend over and do anything
you want.

--
Sander

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