It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.
Global missile defenses. A network against limited strikes, capable of
protecting the United States, its allies and forward-deployed forces, must be
constructed. This must be a layered system of land, sea, air and spacebased
components.
• Control of space and cyberspace.
Much as control of the high seas – and the protection of international
commerce – defined global powers in the past, so will control of the new
“international commons” be a key to world power in the future. An
America incapable of protecting its interests or that of its allies in space
or the “infosphere” will find it difficult to exert global political
leadership.
• Pursuing a two-stage strategy for of transforming conventional forces. In exploiting the “revolution in military affairs,” the Pentagon must be driven by the enduring missions for U.S. forces. This process will have two stages: transition, featuring a mix of current and new systems; and true transformation, featuring new systems, organizations and operational concepts. This process must take a competitive approach, with services and joint-service operations competing for new roles and missions. Any sccessful process of transformation must be linked to the services, which are the institutions within the Defense Department with the ability and the esponsibility for linking budgets and resources to specific missions.
Originally posted by Pootie ... you will then realize what you have posted here was "a New Pearl Harbor" and that "absent this catalyzing event" their agenda would have taken a LONG time... Their words.
Originally posted by coughymachine
Originally posted by Pootie ... you will then realize what you have posted here was "a New Pearl Harbor" and that "absent this catalyzing event" their agenda would have taken a LONG time... Their words.
This becomes even more apparent when you realise that Roosevelt engineered the attacks on Pearl Harbor by deliberately provoking the Japanese.