» Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:48 pm To quote Arthur, King of the Britons: You're a looney!
Ok, we'll see whose acting like a loon right now.
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usspac/lrp/ch01.htm
US Space Command—dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investment.
Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.
The emerging synergy of space superiority-equal to land sea, and air superiority-will enable us to achieve Full Spectrum Dominance.
INTRODUCTION:
Navies and armies have evolved to protect national interests and investments. As sea commerce advanced in the 18th and 19th Centuries, nations formed navies to project power and to protect and enhance their commercial interests. Similarly, during the westward expansion of the continental United States, military outposts and cavalry emerged to protect our wagon trains, settlements and railroads.
Air power emerged differently because it evolved to support land and sea operations (e.g., communications and reconnaissance), not to protect national economic interests. Over time, however, air power became a separate instrument of warfare, protecting national interests and ensuring freedom of action in the air.
Eventually, space power will parallel both models. For several decades, it has mainly supported land, sea, and air operations—strategically and operationally. Early in the 21st Century, space will become another medium of warfare. As the United States relies more on space-based capabilities, space forces may protect the country's commercial assets in this medium.
Space power will help overcome the widening gap between increasing military commitments and diminishing resources. In fact, space power is vital to attaining the operational concepts of Joint Vision 2010. These operational concepts are described below, along with the contributions from space capabilities (Figure 2-1).
POLITICAL:
*The United States will remain a global power and exert global leadership.
*The globalization of the world economy will also continue- with a widening between 'haves' and 'have-nots'.
*The main causes of warfare will be nationalism, ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and scarce resources.
*The United States won't always be able to forward base its forces. One of the long acknowledged and commonly understood advantages of space-based platforms is no restriction of country clearances to over fly a nation from space.
*Widespread communications will highlight disparities in resources and quality of life-contributing to unrest in developing countries.
ECONOMIC:
*We need to turn to space as an essential program to support our economic competitiveness and to help our assessment of ways to reverse the negative trends in the environment.
*The global economy will continue to become more interdependent. Economic alliances as well as the growth and influence of multinational corporations will blur security agreements.
*The gap between have and have-not nations will widen, creating regional unrest.
MILITARY:
*Forward presence will continue to be important to shaping and preparing a region, but sovereignty issues may impede it.
*Coalitions will continue to be important to future US military operations, but the United States will keep the ability to act unilaterally if required.
*The United States won't always be able to forward base its forces. One of the long acknowledged and commonly understood advantages of space-based platforms is no restriction of country clearances to over fly a nation from space.
US Space Command—dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investment.
Integrating Space Forces into warfighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.
The emerging synergy of space superiority-equal to land sea, and air superiority-will enable us to achieve Full Spectrum Dominance.
INTRODUCTION:
Navies and armies have evolved to protect national interests and investments. As sea commerce advanced in the 18th and 19th Centuries, nations formed navies to project power and to protect and enhance their commercial interests. Similarly, during the westward expansion of the continental United States, military outposts and cavalry emerged to protect our wagon trains, settlements and railroads.
Air power emerged differently because it evolved to support land and sea operations (e.g., communications and reconnaissance), not to protect national economic interests. Over time, however, air power became a separate instrument of warfare, protecting national interests and ensuring freedom of action in the air.
Eventually, space power will parallel both models. For several decades, it has mainly supported land, sea, and air operations—strategically and operationally. Early in the 21st Century, space will become another medium of warfare. As the United States relies more on space-based capabilities, space forces may protect the country's commercial assets in this medium.
Space power will help overcome the widening gap between increasing military commitments and diminishing resources. In fact, space power is vital to attaining the operational concepts of Joint Vision 2010. These operational concepts are described below, along with the contributions from space capabilities (Figure 2-1).
POLITICAL:
*The United States will remain a global power and exert global leadership.
*The globalization of the world economy will also continue- with a widening between 'haves' and 'have-nots'.
*The main causes of warfare will be nationalism, ethnic separatism, religious extremism, and scarce resources.
*The United States won't always be able to forward base its forces. One of the long acknowledged and commonly understood advantages of space-based platforms is no restriction of country clearances to over fly a nation from space.
*Widespread communications will highlight disparities in resources and quality of life-contributing to unrest in developing countries.
ECONOMIC:
*We need to turn to space as an essential program to support our economic competitiveness and to help our assessment of ways to reverse the negative trends in the environment.
*The global economy will continue to become more interdependent. Economic alliances as well as the growth and influence of multinational corporations will blur security agreements.
*The gap between have and have-not nations will widen, creating regional unrest.
MILITARY:
*Forward presence will continue to be important to shaping and preparing a region, but sovereignty issues may impede it.
*Coalitions will continue to be important to future US military operations, but the United States will keep the ability to act unilaterally if required.
*The United States won't always be able to forward base its forces. One of the long acknowledged and commonly understood advantages of space-based platforms is no restriction of country clearances to over fly a nation from space.
The US Space Command released it's http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/usa/StrategicMasterPlan04.pdf to go beyond U.S. “control” of space to “ownership”. Ownership of space is “key to our nation’s military effectiveness:”
Tomorrow, ownership may mean instant engagement anywhere in the world. A viable prompt global strike capability, whether nuclear or non-nuclear, will allow the United States to rapidly strike high-payoff, difficult-to-defeat targets from stand-off ranges and produce the desired effect [and] to provide warfighting commanders the ability to rapidly deny, delay, deceive, disrupt, destroy, exploit and neutralize targets in hours/minutes rather than weeks/days even when U.S. and allied forces have a limited forward presence.
Which will reduce the need for overseas military bases that regularly arouse local antagonism.
Military anolyst http://www.nukewatch.org/media/more_media/07-00-02/07-15-02/highTech.html observes:
No target on the planet or in space would be immune to American attack. The U.S. could strike without warning whenever and wherever a threat was perceived, and it would be protected by missile defenses. Hypersonic drones would monitor and disrupt targets. Surveillance systems would provide the ability to track, record and anolyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.
