Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the likelihood of war with Iran and his hope that the US military would simply refuse, the Democrats refusal to check the President’s war powers since pleasing the Israel Lobby is more important to her than stopping another aggressive war, the fact that the CIA says Iran is years away from the ability to make a nuclear weapon, the fact that the CIA knew for certain that Iraq had no weapons before the war, why they invaded, and how to withdraw from Iraq.
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Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years – from the John F. Kennedy administration to that of George H. W. Bush. He is a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
I can just listen to this guy speak all day long because I know he was an insider (still has lots of contacts inside) and knows all the dirty tricks that goes on behind the scene.
I just don’t get why the 30%ter will not listen to the things that this guy says. Can people be that dumb?
According to the former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge the US will get an Advanced First-Strike Capability against Russia and China by 2011 when the anti-missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic are finished. According to Bob Aldridge – http://www.plrc.org the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. I include a letter Bob Aldridge agreed to and his article on First-Strike Capability.
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Claus-Erik Hamle
Dear Sir/Madam
I´m writing to you to draw your attention to the USA now has a first-strike capability. With 4545 warheads on Minuteman-3´s, Trident-2´s, and MIRVs or smart bombs on B-2 bombers (and 360 ALCMs in reserve), all of them MIRVs linked to NAVSTAR, the USA can cross-target approximately 1,200 hard targets in Russia and China and obtain an almost 100 % probability of kill with an accuracy of 30-40 metres against silos and command centres, etc.
According to the former Trident missile engineer Robert C. Aldridge the USA now has a disarming first-strike capability. And, according to Robert C. Aldridge, the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously.
The first nation with a nuclear missile shield would de facto have “first-strike capability”. Quite correctly, Lt. Colonel (USAF ret.) Robert Bowman, formerly Director of US Air Force missile defense program, called missile defense, “the missing link to a First Strike”.
It seems that no one outside a handful of Pentagon planners or senior intelligence officials in Washington discusses the implications of Washington´s pursuit of missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic or its drive for Nuclear Primacy. The missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic will be operational by 2011.
I believe that you will agree with me that a first-strike capability is very dangerous even if it´s not intended for specific use.
I hope that you´ll discuss the problem of the USA´s first-strike capability with your colleagues.
Yours faithfully
AMERICA´S NUCLEAR STRATEGY: DEFENSIVE OR FIRST STRIKE ?
By Bob Aldridge
E-MAIL bob@plrc.org
1. SATELLITE WARFARE has been advancing with a little known annual budget for years, while ballistic missile defense technologies are also applicable against satellites. Now, under the euphemism of “Space Control”, the Pentagon wants to increase spending. In a US first strike, destroying an enemy´s early warning and communications satellites would hinder getting the launch command to his missiles before they are destroyed.
2. AMERICA´S LONG-RANGE NUCLEAR MISSILES — both land-based and submarine-based — are said to deter another country from striking first. Yet the pinpoint accuracy of those weapons makes them deadly against extremely hard targets such as missile silos — targets which must be destroyed in a first strike before the missiles are launched.
3. SUBMARINE WARFARE missions — mainly intelligence gathering — have increased, claims the Pentagon. It now wants to increase the current inventory of 56 attack subs to 68 by 2015. These subs can also track the reduced number of Russian missile-launching subs which are confined to the Barents Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, and destroy them on command.
4. BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE is presented as needed to guard against a small number of missiles such as an accidental launch by a nuclear power or a strike by a rogue nation. But what is being developed would just as easily intercept enemy missiles that survived a US first strike.
5. COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, AND INTELLIGENCE has been vigorously pursued by the US military. These are necessary to integrate and coordinate the previous four items.
The systems itemized above are the five essential ingredients of a first-strike capability. The US is vigorously pursuing each one and some are at a high degree of perfection. As the old axiom goes: actions speak louder than words. In this case, a country´s intentions are more accurately determined by the capabilities it seeks, rather than policy statements it promulgates. America has, or is very close to achieving, a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability.
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