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In a large, tin-roofed warehouse near Colorado's Rocky Mountains, members of a team of modern space warriors spend their days hatching plots to defeat the US military in extraterrestrial combat.
They're called Space Aggressors.
Their job is to act like the enemy during mock space battles to help US units prepare for a conflict that may one day extend into the cosmos.
[...] While attacks by the Space Aggressors are simulated, senior US military and intelligence officials warn the threat in space is very real.
[...] Some worry that disrupting America's vast network of satellites and ground-based systems could send US forces back to an antiquated era of targeting, communications, and navigation systems — deeply undercutting battlefield superiority.
This spring, rhetoric from US military officials about the need to bolster American defensive position, and even offensive capabilities, in space has ratcheted up amid concern that Russia and China are rapidly developing anti-satellite weapons.
"While we're not at war in space, I don't think we could say we're exactly at peace, either," Vice Admiral Charles Richard, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, known as Stratcom, told a conference in Washington DC in March. "We must prepare for a conflict that extends into space."
In his remarks, Vice Admiral Richard pointed to press reports that "China is developing an arsenal of lasers, electro-magnetic rail guns, and high-powered microwave weapons to neutralize America's intelligence, communications, and navigations satellites."
Source: 'Space Aggressors' Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @07:04AM (2 children)
My parents were Union Members, Ticket Democratic voters, why do you ask? Only in the beginning stages of dementia did Dad start complaining about the "at risk urban youth" (though he did not use such an euphemism), and much later that Mom called herself a Republican, mostly under the influence of an Opus Dei priest that somehow found himself exiled to the backwaters of, oh, pedofile!
So now I hope you are happy to know about my family. I sense that yours is probably much the same, and that you as well can blame right-wing talk radio and Faux News for the gradual degradation of the reasoning ability of your family members. If you cannot, you have my sympathies, and maybe you should look into gene therapy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @08:50AM (1 child)
Nope, I'm not American, but Americans such as yourselves are fascinating. The conservatives, I can understand, "My country right or wrong" or so they say; but the "liberals"? They're hell bent on being anti-conservative, opposing conservative view points for opposing sake, whether it makes sense or not. Latent daddy issues?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @12:04PM
I'm not the AC poster above but I am American... I laugh at the limpwristed conservatives and SJW'ers all the time. No one has any balls anymore and it's turning them into *ussies.