Space war game improves joint warfighting capability
“The phrase “space war game” lends a notion that the game is focused on a
military fight in space, but that is not the case, game officials said.
“Our focus is how best to use space assets to coordinate the joint
terrestrial fight,” General Darnell said.
The war game aims to ensure the United States maintains its ultimate
high ground — space superiority, officials said.”
The heroic city of Portland, Oregon may drop out of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. They’re “worried that the task force could lead to illicit surveillance of local citizens”, as NPR puts it.
Also, check any of these stories. They’re definitely not on board the Bush bandwagon up in Portland. What can they possibly be thinking?
Iran: Next Target of US Military Aggression
Selected articles and essays
Michel Chossudovsky, Editor
Global Research E-Monograph and Reports Series, No. 3, February 2005
PREFACE
The Bush administration has officially identified Iran and Syria as the next stage of “the road map to war”.
Targeting Iran is a bipartisan project, which broadly serves the interests of the Anglo-American oil conglomerates, the Wall Street financial establishment and the military-industrial complex.
The broader Middle East-Central Asian region encompasses more than 70% of the World’s reserves of oil and natural gas. Iraq possesses 11% of the world’s oil and ranks only second to Saudi Arabia in the size of its reserves
The announcement to target Iran should come as no surprise. Already during the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated “in war theater plans” to invade both Iraq and Iran:
“The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman’s National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command’s theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM’s theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States’ vital interest in the region – uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil.
(USCENTCOM, http://www.milnet.com/milnet/pentagon/centcom/chap1/stratgic.htm#USPolicy , emphasis added)
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(MSNBC)
New book reveals military code names
A new book that reveals hundreds of secret code names has created a stir
in the Pentagon, reports NBC’s Lisa Myers.
The Center for Public Integrity
“Over the years, those unhappy with my investigations have tried just about everything to discourage our work. They have issued subpoenas, stalked my hotel room, escorted me off military bases, threatened physical arrest, suggested I leave via a second-story window, made a death threat personally communicated by concerned state troopers who asked that we leave the area immediately (we didn’t), hired public relations people to infiltrate my news conferences and pose as “reporters” to ask distracting questions, attempted to pressure the Center’s donors, and even brought expensive, frivolous libel litigation that takes years and costs millions of dollars to defend.”
