Is Space the New Battle Front?

Defending the high ground is the next big plumb to be plucked by the World Wide Military Industrial Complex.

As the US puts more and more of its military and economic eggs in the space basket, its level vulnerability to the most rudimentary of missile and nuclear technology continues to increase. Attacking most of these space based systems can be accomplished in direct ascent without moving along the ground track that would expose the attacking missile to US land based anti-missile defence. Rudimentary physics allows an attacking power to easily and accurately calculate target position at any time and position in its orbit. A very few missiles with properly designed space denial warheads could actively deny the use of the most desirable orbits.

Space based systems are soft, high value, and easy targets. Most commercial systems are probably unhardened to EMP, if indeed that can be done at all.

The US continues to increase its dependence on these soft and easily attacked systems, and as a result will abrogating the space based treaties mentioned to allow the Military Industrial Complex to field extremely profitable orbiting systems, sold first in the black, and then openly sold by the pundits, to attack missiles in the boost phase of flight.

The militarists have re-ignited the cold war, the outcome however, is going to be much different this time around.

Conflict is first and foremost an economic endeavour. The US, through the greed and avarice of its military based economy and the complacency of its people has already lost the economic battle. We just don't know it yet.

While the Power Elite in the US has used the control of information to keep their trough full, our economic competitors have calculated a strategic approach to economic domination. Last year 6 percent of US GDP serviced interest on government debt. Extrapolating those interest costs out in the short term, most of which capitalizes our competitors, leaves us unable to meet even our most basic of security needs, to say nothing of defending the indefensible.

The military and scientific elite who are leading us to the precipice, will cash out and leave. Instead of dreaming of space dominance, the rest of us should be thinking of how we can salvage what is left.

Gavilan

"A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly. Thence the two extremes, of monstrous opulence and monstrous misery; all the enjoyment to a few, all the privations to the rest, that is to say, to the people; ------------------It is a greatness ill constituted, in which all the material elements are combined, and into which no moral element enters." From Morals and Dogma – Albert Pike 1871

We can insist on a coalition military presence in space to insure that everyone has access for scientific research and colonization. We can design tools and weapons to enable us to achieve this goal. For example, simple non-nuclear impact devices parked in nearby reverse Earth orbit could be maneuvered to destroy the U.S lower 48 in three hours. All life in Israel could be eliminated in minutes. These same devices could be used to excavate water reservoirs, sea level canals, and habitats on other planets.

But first, we need to reach a political accomodation with the Chinese, who will most likely have the first military base on the moon. When our military forces have been equipped with high-tech low-cost Chinese weapons, they need only to push a button to deactivate any weapon pointed at them.

Humans do not have the ability to persuade anyone to do anything unless they have the threat of deadly force to enforce their persuasion. Space will be a battlefield, but a strong coalition military presence there might keep the death toll low.

It will be only terrorism the culprit within the nations , not between different nations , we have treaties to work in oceans ,antartica , islands that are politically control by multiple nations , so space is altogether different , we have almost forgot cold war . space technology , unexplored technology are also matter of concern , not much is being known , if for ex US leads space programs it is in matter of interest for other agencies , nations to co ordinate & cooperate not to compete when away from earths atmosphere , but terrorism starts from our own community and system and mean only distruction , if such groups and outfits get access to the remote technologies it will be hard to stop them , so what we should think space programs should not be controlled within closed loop , but in open format( pre-programming protocols)with isolations(must do ,not necessity) and non synchronised way so it becomes difficult(restricted) to control from ground(earth) for unauthorised

From an "Alien" viewpoint, why are all of the weapons pointed towards Earth?

I mean as a most fearsome race of WAR mongers in this sector, just why are we not gettring rough with the rest of that Galaxy out there? All weapons are pointed at Human targets.

Just what are our leaders defending us from? Have you ever wondered how your hard earned TAX dollars were wasted?

Just what are our leaders defending us from?

Their own Hegelian tactics.

Brad