Alfred W. McCoy, HuffPost: The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons For World Dominion.
Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century.
[This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.]
Not quite a century ago, on January 7, 1929, newspaper readers across America were captivated by a brand-new comic strip, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It offered the country its first images of space-age death rays, atomic explosions, and inter-planetary travel.
“I was twenty years old,” World War I veteran Anthony “Buck” Rogers told readers in the very first strip, “surveying the lower levels of an abandoned mine near Pittsburgh... when suddenly... gas knocked me out. But I didn’t die. The peculiar gas... preserved me in suspended animation. Finally, another shifting of strata admitted fresh air and I revived.”
Staggering out of that mine, he finds himself in the 25th century surrounded by flying warriors shooting ray guns at each other. A Mongol spaceship overhead promptly spots him on its “television view plate” and fires its “disintegrator ray” at him. He’s saved from certain death by a flying woman warrior named Wilma who explains to him how this all came to be.
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WNU Editor: What was science fiction 100 years ago has become reality today.
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In order to keep its dominance on the battlefield, the US would first need to gain dominance on the battlefield. Such articles of faith are far from certain.
The US military/defense isn't configured properly nor are resources allocated propetly. The main threats are as follows, 1.)an all out nuclear attack by Russia, 2.)an attack by Islamic terrorists against the US mainland involving the use of suitcase mnuclear weapons, "dirty bombs," or some combination of this, and 3.)an invasion of the US by Russia, China, Russia and China, or Russia, China, and some combination of their allies.
With regards to threat scenario 1 now that Russia has deployed nuclear weapon "moles" that are buried off of the US cossts our response time to launch a counterattack has been reduced from perhaps 15 minutes to 2 minutes at the most to perhaps on seconds. This is based on the math of how fast Russian missiles travel and the reduced distanes they'd need to travel.
I appreciate a majority of what you said. There is a catch to nuclear war between Russia and US, though. We both have deadhand systems.. which means if one goes, we all go. If the US is taken down by conventional force, the US (and other nuclear states) drag us into the stone age. There is no winner anymore.
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