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a cold war launch the space race that we capture our imagination and feed our dreams of cosmic exploration for decades to come. but crossing the fun tear the i'm the spear into space but also revolutionize life on earth. out of sight hundreds of kilometers above our heads a fragile network of satellites manages are interconnected society. of the one thousand satellites in orbit today almost half belong to the united states not only making the united states the most advanced space nation but also the nation's most dependent on its assets in space space is the backbone of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military

dominance in space and this conviction should drive our course for the next fifty years. the u.s. air force academy in colorado springs where the military space elite of tomorrow he's trained fisher and. people on the roman empire a little better caesar augustus than a hand in the empire earth during previous time. roads in fruit pirates no longer threatens ships on the high sea. life was so good during this time. that the fear even acquired. it was and is still referred to you yes the facts room on which means the roman peace. another period of he says a fire. is cold the pox amerikana. or the american

feeds. he refers to the period in which the mirror. where the world is the will come and. now days it seems the pipes america this thread. most of us only feel we were nice. to me the rest of you. walk out here morning and civil wars. the lord will take you out of the shadow will lead you. so it's is nice to know them as they can in the hills lose my completely for you. have been in the. mood.

my name's fair first class called thought oh i'm out there for scared of me i graduated forty four days and i'm just going to have part to make sure that everyone here can enjoy the freedoms. pax americana is a political view which simply says that because america is currently the sole superpower it has not only the ability but their response a guilty into the far future to maintain world peace. right. america now has the chance to establish an american empire a pax americana that will last for many many decades and one of the ways to do this

is to establish strong american control of space china carried out its first anti-satellite weapons test whether satellite about five hundred miles according to u.s. government officials after three misses china succeeded in shooting only weather satellites the test may be part of china's efforts to establish a military presence in space does this mean the spy satellites the united states their heads on could be shot down. left behind a trail of garbage circling in orbit now after little of the satellite. if you pull up. to. the test of a chinese anti-satellite weapon in january two thousand and seven alarmed many observers of both the vulnerability of america's satellites. the united states and

particularly its intelligence services worry about an attack on the united states it is not nuclear weapons chemicals it is not biological but it is technological. a surprise attack against an satellites is a catastrophic. scenario studied by the u.s. forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites the chinese could literally cripple the u.s. military. they could prevent the military from being able to communicate with its forces they could blind the u.s. intelligence community which uses electro optics satellites to term in military force movements around the world and they could also cripple the guidance systems that are used on precision guided munitions that are satellite guided. in many senses could be a kind of an electronic pearl harbor. without

space the u.s. would be unable to conduct any type of military operation in an effective way. the civilian space industry generates more than two hundred fifty billion dollars every year the destruction of even a single orbiting satellite could put at risk the economy daily lives and well being of millions of citizens. if you look at space lots of times you think about. most people. every day. when you open yourself.

to satellite t.v. and live news from around the globe. to use the. system for. traffic control and you can. email weather forecasting disaster monitoring. our entire life and satellites are sensual and we're not conscious until we lose that. there's a tremendous premium on the united states being able to provide other people from attacking our assets in space to ensure that we can continue to exercise for use of them and if necessary also to be able to deny others the use of similar assets for their own purposes. the world is changed as more and more countries develop a presence in outer space possibility of

a space battle the longer science fiction. the first two solutions the u.s. air force feeds from. this elite forces of the earth designs gone keeping watch over our interests i want to bring. the professor and head of the department of astronauts who is your post count and we've been continually teaching the fundamentals of astronautics to work today it's in every trip it is graduated from the air force academy almost forty thousand now have taken at least one course in order to park in this area right here what i call vows yok right and superimposed on this of course we have a hero. highly elliptical orbit military strategy it shows that if you want to

control the battlefield ied to be the first in seizing the high ground the most advanced frontier would be land sea air and space but personnel controls it has the advantage so made sure that we can deny our enemies space is a huge advantage. military forces have always relied upon high ground technology to gain advantage of. general in civil war in the united states. troops in the army especially in the union army used hot air balloons they're going to blow up the trees from sea for the enemy was and of course the first airplanes to be used in world war one were centrally reconnaissance craft they were designed to florio look and see really only one. space that has been called the ultimate high ground and the advantage to the state that can seize and maintain

the high ground is the same as holding the high ground throughout history whether there was a hill the mountain or in the latter half of the twentieth century the air space. implies the use of force weapons from space to do crowd is true sharing the protection of america's satellites in the face of potential threats is the responsibility of the us air force the united states is going to become the world's policeman does that title resonate with you do you have any reactions to that do you think is accurate if it were accurate how would it play out if you look at the first roles of the united states navy when it was established to a second battle piracy absolutely. if you look at. potential commerce in space law enforcement and things like that are going to be. an important mission was more and more countries start using space for security purposes

a military says is from sooner or later they're going to collide and sooner or later the space we come into the arena for will fit for good or bad and the same kind of thinks that we have close military force in the other environments will apply to space and jobs the stretch any analogy to the breaking point but the space the analogy i think is one of the more useful. as the dutch controlled the season the seventeen hundreds as the british tended to police and control the seas from the eighteen hundreds in one thousand hundreds and as the united states has done in the twentieth century and will do in the twenty first century and that is to ensure that commerce is unfettered pirates than others should they be out there are taken out. we can do the same thing for space we can do so in a way that is good for everyone and is good for ourselves it is policing the heavens for the good of all of your customers may your. view object when the

united states maybe deploys hundreds of heavily armed worship's in every one of the world's oceans no one accuses us of contributing to the weaponization of the sea because they know that the presence of our weapons ensures free transit for all who pursue their peaceful interests u.s. systems based in space could similarly patrol the commons for the good of all the u.s. air force has been charged with the mission. ensuring space access and space access in times of conflict. can the united states air force do this mission without weapons. my fellow americans tonight we're launching an effort which holds the promise of change in the course of human history i ask for your prayers. and your support.

thank you good night when i joined the staff of the committee on on services in the u.s. house of representatives back in one thousand nine hundred five my first assignment was to investigate and oversee the strategic defense initiative as was president ronald reagan's star wars program and this new national strategy represents a break from the dangerous. sure destruction at the height of the cold war. also known as star wars was a program conceived to destroy all enemy missiles by relying on orbiting systems u.s. interceptors or fired level one depends goes into action. at the time the prevailing view was that this was going to work that the technology was almost in hand and that this was going to change everything i remember the

briefing i got from my staff director he said you know not just anti-missile systems but all major weapon systems were going to move to space that space was the new high ground even then we talked about in that way where we're all major military operations we're going to be by the end of that century it was a debate of stellar proportions the nation's number one star gazer vs the pentagon's chief of star wars it philip protect the population of the united states it can be but the soviets overwhelmed outfoxed underflow i for one am not willing and able to just accept the idea that it can't work this day i never got off the drawing board the project was too far ahead of its time and the anti-ballistic missile treaty prevented the testing of the successful development of this to. bombs on target real time battle management that's what we're about and that's what we are able. to deliver through space air land and sea. the

capability of all those to come together we started the storm we've done that each conflict since can we get better and better and better. though planning to arm the heavens was put under wraps the use of military satellites for global communications in getting weapons to their targets was relied on more than ever. since the first goal for the military presence in space has only continued to grow becoming the keystone of all operations during the air campaign on baghdad in march two thousand and three seventy one percent of all weapons launched against the iraqi capital were guided by satellites. at the beginning of the twenty first century star wars resurfaced under a new name this solid defense. to free and allowed

to build a missile current account there are threats of today's world to move forward on ballistic missile defense cooperation much to go and we must employ effective missile defenses. to. track interest felt when president george took office here and here's how great people that surrounded him if i walk away it think that donald rumsfeld yeah i think that dick cheney. really really had said why i think get rid of saddam hussein the second. i thought of that as a. good morning. i just to clear the meeting of my national security council. we were viewed what i had discussed with my friend president vladimir putin the course of many meetings. many months. and that. the need for

america. to move beyond the one nine hundred seventy two. anti-ballistic missile treaty. when george w. bush became president immediately he gave six months notice to russia that we are pulling out united states is pulling out of the a.b.m. treaty yet tribalistic missile treaty that limited the united states's ability to test and deploy anti-satellite weapons so-called missile defense systems and other space technology at the pentagon today are warning that space will become the next big battlegrounds to meet the challenge defense secretary donald rumsfeld is making space a top pentagon priority putting a four star general at the head of a new air force space command to take charge of all military space activity including any new anti missile defense pay careful attention to protecting and promoting our interest in space pentagon officials say is the first step toward eventually putting weapons into space. the united states is the leader research and

development of space weapons. secrets and in the black budgets of the pentagon these covert programs cost many billion dollars a. month technology's benefit from this financing. starfire has been used primarily in the past to do research on satellite tracking also they've done a lot of work in astronomy with range finding of stars he use the laser to be able to help tell you where the star is and how far away. in the budget documents from the air force there's also been mention of the use a starfire for anti cell at weapons activity. the air force told congress that it had no intentions of using starfire for anything related to and he said it weapons however they are doing it just to make the laser beam very.

skinny. and make it stay very stable as it goes up and they're going to target that on a salad. if you're tracking infallibly you don't need a very skinny laser beam in fact you want kind of a lie because you want they think she catch it in the middle and. so. many of us here are concerned that this kind of a test is actually an anti-satellite weapons test and discussed. in april of two thousand and five the air force launched an experimental satellite its name was the tax s s eleven. theoretically this experimental microcephalic has the ability to disrupt other nations satellites.

has it done so no. could it do so pressure ok but in reality. we don't know. one of the things i think people need to know is that most technology that's used in space can be used either for weapons purposes or it can be used for totally benign good purposes lasers for tracking good idea more precise tracking small microsatellites that can go around a big cell it take pictures good idea is it helps you figure out what went wrong with your satellite and that's hard to do right now good idea that same little microcell a that's going around a big sell it could be set up to go around another person sell it and run into it and kill it. the technology doesn't know

whether it's a weapon or whether it's you know a benign use. the question is going to come down to the intent of the people who are building these systems. and the anti-missile shield is regarded by some critics as being the visible face of nursing space weapons program. seldomer sold by critics of elvis. and military war games this is the nation's launch ballistic missiles on american cities. possible impact of san francisco shores but in reality who is capable of pulling off such an attack against the usa the interesting thing is that the threat is actually shrinking not increasing the ballistic missile threat is declining there are far fewer ballistic missiles in the world now than they were fifteen years ago there were fewer countries with ballistic missile programs there

were fewer hostile countries to the united states with ballistic missile programs. when you start when you look at it it really comes down to work to a handful of states who programs through we worry about north korea and iran basically and they only. we have medium range missiles that is they can reach the united states. from ronald reagan on birds every president has three funding for missile defense under different guises using various funds costing at least two hundred billion dollars. are u.s. taxpayers getting what they pay for. it's a con it's a con missile defense is the greatest fraud in the department of finance and believe me it's had a lot of competitors i really i really believe this i've. missile defense is the longest running fraud in the in the history of the u.s.

department of defense. if ballistic strikes are so improbable why seek to repel them such cocks in from space. what if missile defense is a disguise for ambitions beyond simply destroying this one. there's going to be an inherent in the satellite capability with any ballistic missile defense system regardless of whether it's located in space or elsewhere. and i think that that's effectively zero boyd of attardi you know ballistic missile in some senses is more difficult than targeting a satellite and therefore targeting a satellite is almost always ok filippi that's associated with missile defense system. in february two thousand and eight the united states destroyed a disabled satellite of its own using missile defense interceptors. in the us

demonstrated that these interceptors also called kill vehicles can obliterate any satellite in low earth orbit but missile defense is a trojan horse that has nothing to do with defense whatsoever it's all about projecting power it's about office i've been to the bases in colorado springs and i've personally seen over the door where it says master of space. and i read the documents vision for twenty twenty and a whole array of other military space command documents that have said for years that us will control space that we will dominate space that we will deny other countries access the space we five percent of the world's population in the united states are going to deny other countries access to space i mean absolutely provocative i would tell you that we are so. dominated space that the. pretty

a country that would come up against just. the synergy with their land it's unfortunate is and in our ability to control the battle space and seize the high ground is devastating.