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Salam, Eri. On 10/27/06, Arief Nugraha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1038 > > - The US will deny access to outer space to anyone it classifies as > 'hostile' > > Last week in Washington, the website of a little-known organisation > called the US Office of Science and Technology Policy carried a > low-key announcement about President George Bush signing an order that > set out his administration's position on "freedom of action in space". > > With the war in Iraq and the North Korea nuclear crisis dominating the > headlines, this received relatively little play in the news media: > since the moon landings, the final frontier has lost much of its > former allure for the public. > > Yet experts on the issue of deploying weapons beyond the earth's > atmosphere were quick to interpret this new doctrine - the first > revision of US strategy for a decade - as a unilateral declaration of > American hegemony. > > And in far-flung corners of the world, those who noticed the > announcement were aghast. "Now America wants it all," said the Asia > Times. "The US is turning space into its personal colony." > > The order makes it crystal clear that the US will deny access to outer > space to anyone it classifies as "hostile to America's vital > interests" - a definition not necessarily confined to the Axis of Evil > club. Freedom of action in space, it adds, is considered to be as > crucial to the US as conventional air and sea power. A spokesman for > the National Security Council was happy to elaborate: "Space has > become an even more important component of US economic, national and > homeland security." > > According to Michael Krepon of the respected Henry L Stimpson Centre, > which specialises in the study of space weapon development, the White > House's muscular new policy will inevitably reinforce international > concerns about America's intentions "to develop, test and deploy space > weapons". > > Krepon points out that the concept of warfare in space goes back well > beyond the controversial 'Star Wars' initiative launched by Ronald > Reagan in the early 1980s, which envisaged the deployment of a battery > of anti-missile shields above the earth. "It's no coincidence that > interest in space warfare re-emerged after the Cold War ended," Krepon > told The First Post. > > As he sees it, America's top priority is to protect the military's > existing satellite communication and navigation systems, which are > potentially highly vulnerable: "A $2 bag of marbles correctly inserted > into space could wreck a hugely expensive satellite." > > But though the Bush administration insists that it remains committed > to the peaceful exploitation of space by all nations and has no plans > to develop a new space arsenal, Krepon argues that the order signed by > the President has moved the whole issue significantly further forward: > "Clinton's policy opened the door to developing space weapons... but > that administration never did anything about it." > > Over at the Centre for Defence Information, an independent think-tank, > the director, Theresa Hitchens, is more blunt: the new White House > doctrine, she says, "kicks the door a little more open to a > space-fighting strategy." > > FIRST POSTED OCTOBER 26, 2006 > > -- tix-oi sak-khet se-veh ("Live Long and Prosper") [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Milis Penggemar Star Trek Indonesia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-startrek "...to boldly go where no Indonesian has gone before." ----------------------------------------------------------- Website: www.indo-startrek.org Email: indostartrek @ yahoo . com Forum: www.indo-startrek.org/forum Friendster: www.friendster.com/indost =/\= ================================================= =/\= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-startrek/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-startrek/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
