US plans new space weapons against China

[Daning]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... pon114.xml

The Pentagon is spending billions of dollars on new forms of space warfare to counter the growing risk of missile attack from rogue states and the "satellite killer" capabilities of China.

Congress has allocated funds to develop futuristic weapons and intelligence systems that operate beyond the Earth's atmosphere as America looks past Iraq and Afghanistan to the wars of the future.

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[Victoria]

есть ли [жизнь на Марсе?] нефть в Китае? или уголь подойдёт? а может какие другие equities?

[Daning]

а может какие другие equities?

Prepared by Wolfowitz, then under secretary of defense, for his boss, Secretary of Defense Cheney, the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) was designed as a basic policy guide for Pentagon budgetary and organizational planning over the next five years. The Wolfowitz text basically spelled out a plan for permanent U.S. military superiority and world dominance.

“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed by the Soviet Union,” the document began. This task would require “that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”