Well, if anyone has ever read any of the Project for the New American Centuries report titled "Rebuilding America's Defenses", it is quite clear that they wish for the US to start weaponizing space.
Here's a link to the PNAC report from their own website:
http://newamericancentury.org/Rebuildin ... fenses.pdf
From page 12 of the report:
[quote:f8614]CONTROL THE NEW “INTERNATIONAL COMMONS” OF SPACE AND “CYBERSPACE,” and pave the way for the creation of a new military service – U.S. Space Forces –
with the mission of space control.[/quote:f8614]
Doesn't get much blunter than that.
[quote:f8614]To meet the requirements of the four new missions highlighted above, the United States must undertake a two-stage process. The immediate task is to rebuild today’s force, ensuring that it is equal to the tasks before it: shaping the peacetime environment and winning multiple, simultaneous theater wars; these forces must be large enough to accomplish these tasks without running the “high” or “unacceptable” risks it faces now. The second task is to seriously embark upon a transformation of the Defense Department. This itself will be a two-stage effort: for the next decade or more, the armed forces will continue to operate many of the same systems it now does, organize themselves in traditional units, and employ current operational concepts. However, this transition period must be a first step toward more substantial reform. Over the next several decades, the United States must field a global system of missile defenses, divine ways to control the new “international commons” of space and cyberspace, and build new kinds of conventional forces for different strategic challenges and a new technological environment.[/quote:f8614]
Here are quotes that various members of the administration have said about the weaponization of space:
http://www.mdwg.org.uk/Spacequotes.htm
[quote:f8614]
'We’re going to fight a war in space. We’re going to fight from space and we’re going to fight into space…’ General Joseph W Ashy, Commander-in-Chief of US Space Command, 5 August 1996
‘Dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US national interests and investment … [and] integrating space forces into war-fighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict.’ US Space Command, Vision for 2020, 1997
‘Space is the ultimate high ground of US military operations … Space force application systems [delivering attacks from space] would have the advantage of rapid global access and the ability to effectively bypass adversary defenses.’ Air Force Doctrine Document 2-2, ‘Space Operations’ (Official US Air Force policy)
‘We cannot fully exploit space until we control it.’ US Space Command, ‘Strategic Master Plan, Federal Year 2004 and beyond’, p. 5[/quote:f8614]
Here's your actual report that your link is based on:
http://www.peterson.af.mil/hqafspc/libr ... ned!v1.pdf
PNAC's members include Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, William J. Bennett, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Ellen Bork, the wife of Robert Bork, so pretty much what they say goes in the Bush administration.
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