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tough. russia look we want the us a little bit the world's first earth have a lot what if one. of. the cold war launched the space race that would capture our imagination and feed our dreams of cosmic exploration for decades to come.

but crossing the punchier the on the sphere into space could also revolutionize life on earth. out of sight hundreds of kilometers above our heads a fragile network as 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 us air force academy in colorado springs where the military space elite

of tomorrow has trained future and. people wrote you better caesar augustus than any empire earth during previous. roads improve pirates no. only see. why it was so good during this time. that the period acquired. it was and is still referred to you yes the heights rumana which means the roman peace. another period of he says a fire. it is cold the pox americano. or the american feeds. you refer to here in the mirror. where the world has. come

about. now days it seems the summer of this thread. most of us only feel we were. me to. walk out every morning and civil wars of. the lord will take you to the palace of the shadow. so it says and i see if it goes i'm shaken in the hills lose my completely for you should have been in the. mood. when i was fed first class called total america there for scanning me. forty four

days and i'm just going to my 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 the responsibility 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 on an old weather satellite about five hundred miles

according to u.s. government officials after three misses china succeeded in shooting down one of its own teaching 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 depends on could be shot down. left behind a trail of garbage circling in orbit now after the fall of the satellite. picture leave a small ball you could cripple us what they're up to. the test of a chinese anti-satellite weapons in january two thousand and seven 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 that is not nuclear weapons it has got chemicals it is not biological

but it is technological. a surprise attack against its satellites is a catastrophic. scenario studied by the u.s. armed forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites the chinese could literally cripple the u.s. . 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 determine 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 times you think about the hubble telescope. most people don't realize that they use every day. when you open yourself to make. money out of the. satellite t.v. and live news from around the. time your line of positioning system sees the lan traffic control and even in your home. weather

forecasting faster monitoring. our entire life as an satellites there sensual we're not conscious of that until we see. there's a tremendous premium on the united states being able to provide all the people from attacking our assets in space and to ensure that we can continue to exercise full use of them and if necessary also to be able to deny others use of similar assets for their own purposes. the world has changed as in the war in the war in countries develop a presence in outer space possibility of a space battle science fiction. force new solutions u.s. air force fees from. this elite forces in the earth design sky keeping watch over

our interests of the rest. of. the crew for us from head of the part of the astronauts who is your force academy we've been continually teaching the fundamentals of astronautics through our kids and every kid if it is graduated from the air force academy almost forty thousand now have taken at least one course in order to parchman this area right here in what i call valid stock right and superimposed on this of course we have a hero. iley elliptical orbit military strategy it shows that if you want to control the battlefield even be the first in seizing the high ground the most advanced frontier whether it be land sea air and now space the person who controls it has the advantage so they ensure that nobody can deny our enemies space is

a huge advantage. military forces have always relied upon high ground technology to gain advantage of. general and civil war in the united states. troops in the army especially in the union army used hot air balloons to get above the trees and see where the enemy was and of course the first airplanes to be used in world war one were centrally reconnaissance aircraft they were designed to 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 a mountain or in the latter half of the twentieth century the air space.

implies the use of force weapons from space to crown as china 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 type 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 was that combat piracy absolutely. if you look at. potential commerce in space law enforcement. things like that are going to be. an important mission because more and more countries start using space for security purposes and military purposes sooner or later they're going to collide and sooner or later the space we come another rino for wolf it will go to. the same kind of ethics that we employ its mission falls

the other environments will apply its face a tough stretch any analogy to the breaking point but the speccy 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 nine hundred 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 on fetter pirates and 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 that swelling of your dress with a. few object when the united states navy deploys hundreds of heavily armed warships 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 armed 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 this was president ronald reagan's star wars program and this new national strategy represents a break. or sure destruction at the height of the cold war as they are also known as door wars was a program conceived to destroy all enemies by relying on orbiting systems u.s. interceptors of wired 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 who said 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 a nation's number one star gazer vs the pentagon's chief of star wars it cannot 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 entitled to missile treaty prevented the testing of the successful development of the. 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 in each conflict soon and 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 and guarding weapons to their targets was relied on more than ever. this is 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. to build a missile prepared to carry different threats today's world to move forward on

ballistic missile defense cooperation must develop and we must employ effective missile defenses. factored out of when president or because he had here. people that surrounded him it all away it think that donald rumsfeld yeah i think that dick cheney. really really had to. lie i think get rid of saddam hussein the second like to build a hold of the. good morning. i just replied to meeting of my national security council. we were viewed what i've discussed with my friend president vladimir putin over the course of many meetings. many months. and that has been. for america. to move beyond the one nine hundred seventy two. anti-ballistic missile treaty. when george w. bush became president mediately he gave six months notice to russia that we were

pulling out united states was pulling out of the a.b.m. treaty we had totalistic 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 a warning that space will become the next big battleground to meet the challenge defense secretary donald rumsfeld is making space at the 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 it's the first step toward eventually putting weapons into space. the united states is the leader of the search and development of space weapons possible secret and hidden in the black budgets of the pentagon these covert programs cost many billion dollars and. what

technologies 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 on the air force there's also been mentioned you know they use a star fire for and sell it weapons actually. the air force told congress that it had no intentions of using starfire for anything related to you and he selling weapons however they are doing it just to make the very ski. and make it stay very stable as it goes up and they're going to target that on a salad. if you're tracking

it sally you don't need a very skinny laser beam in fact you want kind of a light because you want to make sure you catch it in need right. so. many of us here concerned that this kind of a test is actually an anti-satellite weapons test in disguise. in april of two thousand and five the air force launched an experimental satellite its name was the tax s s clever. theoretically this experimental microsatellite has the ability to disrupt other nations satellites. has it done so no. could do so will press the ok but in

reality. we don't know. if. one of the things that 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 micro satellites that can go around the big sell it take pictures good idea because it helps you figure out what went wrong there sally and that's hard to do right now good idea that same little micro sallade that's going around the base salary could be set up to go around another person sully and run into it and. 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 the systems.

the anti-missile shield is regarded by some critics as being the visible freeze of the american space weapons program. seldom or sold by critics available. in military wargames dissident missions launched ballistic missiles on american cities. possible impact of severstal sources 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 are 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 whose programs we worry about north korea and iran basically

and they own. they have medium range missiles that is they can't reach the united states. from ronald reagan on birds every president as third funding for missile defense under different guises various funds costing at least two hundred billion dollars. are u.s. taxpayers getting what they pay for. it's a cot it's a con missile defense is the greatest fraud in the department of france 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 cox and from space. what if missile

defense is a disguise for ambitions beyond simply destroying missile. there's going to be an inherent anti 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 voidable. listed missile in some senses is more difficult than targeting a satellite and therefore targeting a satellite is almost always ok for delivery that's associated with a 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 vehicle can obliterate any satellite in low earth orbit 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 that 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 the u.s. will control space that we will dominate space but we will deny other countries access to 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 dominant in space that it's a. pity a country that there would come up against. the synergy with air land and sea forces and in our ability to control the battle space and seize the high ground is

devastating question is that so much of which are called his wife on it so here it is the brink of bankruptcy time is running out for the american budget deficit failure to raise the debt ceiling would have to try to structure constant.

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