The Boeing X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator is a prototype space shuttle unmanned developed by NASA beginning in 1999, aimed at developing new technologies for takeoffs and orbital receipts and atmospheric to prepare the replacement of the U.S. space shuttle . It is a small craft weighing less than 6 tons, with a cargo hold, and with a large orbital maneuver capability.
The X-37 is fully automated and is derived from the X-40A expanded by approximately 20%. In 2004, Following the removal of the project budget, the X-37 is taken up by the DARPA, the U.S. military research agency. In 2006, for financial reasons, it passes control to the Air Force U.S. has since continued its development. Its first flight took place on atmospheric 7 April 2006 in California, at Edwards AFB . The first launch took place in orbit the 22 April 2010 [ a ] . The missions that could fill the X-37 to serve the air force are not known because the project is now classified as confidential. We suppose it could be used in the fight against hostile satellites.
abnormally high temperatures in central Russia has already caused enormous economic losses. A fifth was destroyed crops and food prices could increase significantly leading the fall. Moscow is caught in the smoke from the fires of peatlands. The experts' forecasts are far from reassuring: droughts, hurricanes and floods will be repeated more often and be more violent. Alexei Kokorin, Program Director Climate and Global Energy Fund for Nature (WWF), explained that "the current trend (the drought) will not stop, it is not by chance ..." That
an employee of an influential international organization working in different regions of the world under the cover of environmental programs is so well informed is very significant. And that is not reducible to the famous "global warming" which is the subject of intense debate scientists and others. The theory of "global warming" as a natural cycle requires at least evidence, whereas the current heat wave, observed, moreover, exclusively in the territory of Russia and its neighboring areas, could Deputy hear more natural scientific explanations.
The problem of controlling the weather, as a form of social regulation, has been discussed since the 1970s by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book Between Two Centuries. It is clear that the American geopolitical expert could not but ask the question on the possibility use various forms of climate impact both on social and geopolitical. Other authors have also written serious about this, although for obvious reasons, it is unlikely that information about the discoveries in the field of creating and testing a weapon climate being disclosed one day.
In 2000, Michel Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, wrote about the possibility of a partial change of climate as a result of the use of a new generation of "non-lethal weapons." Americans work on the ability to control the climate in various regions of the world, this technology is developed under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP), capable of causing phenomena such as droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes land and floods. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, an instrument of expansion that can selectively destabilize ecological systems and agricultural countries and regions targeted. The basic technique known program is a system of transmitters designed to study electromagnetic processes in the ionosphere and composed of 360 radio transmitters and 180 antennas with a height of 22 meters. Emitting in the sky 3600 kilowatts station became the most powerful facility in the world can act on the ionosphere. The program, launched in 1990, is funded by the Directorate of Marine Research and the Research Laboratory of the U.S. Air Force with the participation of the largest universities.
All this gives substance to rumors and assumptions. We could still continue to laugh Hugo Chavez said that the devastating earthquake in Haiti by the implementation HAARP , but similar assumptions have been made after the earthquake in Sichuan province of China in 2008. In addition, a series of facts shows that the U.S. program that aims to change the climate in countries and regions in a systematic character is now affecting the space environment.
For example, April 22, 2010, the X-37B unmanned U.S. has been launched on the orbit of the Earth and could, according to some sources, carry on board new models of laser weaponry. The New York Times, Pentagon officials strongly deny any relationship between the camera and any offensive weapons but admitted that he intended to attend military ground operations and complete various missions auxiliaries. The X-37B was built 11 years ago already under a NASA program, and in 2006 this program was sent to the U.S. Air Force under the seal of secrecy defense in for its intended purpose and budget.
requirements to lift the veil of secrecy defense on the experiments conducted in Alaska have never ceased to be expressed in the United States and other countries. In Russia have similar requirements never been expressed so noisy. Nevertheless, it appears that climate change in the service of political interests are far from being a myth, and soon Russia and the rest of the world would face a new kind of threat. Developments in the field of climate arms seem to reach the "expected output capacity, resulting in droughts, destroying crops and causing the territory of the" target "a series of anomalous phenomena.
A scenario for 2025
technology and cyber space warfare is so new and untested that even the most bizarre scenarios may soon be overwhelmed by a reality still difficult to conceive. However, if we use just the type of scenarios that the U.S. Air Force itself has used in its 2009 Future Capabilities game, we can get "a better understanding of how air, space and cyberspace coincide in the art of war "and then start to imagine how the next world war could actually be delivered!
It is 11:59 p.m. on Thursday for Thanksgiving in 2025. While crowds flock to online shops and they hammer the gates of Best Buy for big discounts on the latest home electronics from China, technicians from the U.S. Air Force, the Space Telescope Monitoring Maui [ Hawaii], cough on their coffee while their widescreen suddenly become black. At thousands of miles, cyber command center in Texas, the cyber fighters quickly detect malicious binary codes which, although launched anonymously, shows the thumbprint separate Army People's Liberation of China.
This first open attack had been planned by anyone. The "malicious software" takes control of robotics aboard a U.S. drone solar powered, the "Vulture," while flying at 70,000 feet above the Straits of Tsushima between Korea and Japan. Suddenly he pulls all the modules of rockets that are below its gigantic scale of 135 meters, sending dozens of missiles lethal plunge harmlessly in the Yellow Sea, thus effectively disarming this terrible weapon.
Determined to meet sudden for once, the White House authorizes retaliatory strikes. Confident that its system of satellites F-6, "split and free-flying" is impenetrable, the commanders of the Air Force in California transmit codes robotic fleet of UAVs space X B-37 orbiting at 450 kilometers above the Earth, ordering them to launch their missiles triple terminator on the 35 Chinese satellites. No response. Near panic, the U.S. Air Force launches its Falcon hypersonic cruise vehicle in an arc of 160 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean and then, just 20 minutes later, sending the computer codes to take missiles against seven Chinese satellites in low orbit. The launch codes are suddenly inoperative. As
as the Chinese virus is spreading irresistibly across the architecture of F-6 satellites and supercomputers that these second-class Americans are unable to crack the code devilishly complex malicious program, the GPS signals crucial to the navigation of ships and U.S. planes in the world are compromised. Fleets of aircraft carriers begin to circle in the middle of the Pacific. Squadrons of fighter planes are grounded. Drones fly aimlessly reapers to the horizon, crashing when their fuel is exhausted. Suddenly, the United States is losing what the U.S. Air Force has long called "the ultimate high ground combat" space. Within hours, the world power that has dominated the planet for nearly a century has been defeated in World War III without causing human casualties.
A new world order?
Although future events are more dull than what is suggested by these four scenarios, all trends point to a significant decline much more striking of U.S. power by 2025 that all Washington seems now consider.
While the allies [U.S.] in the world are beginning to realign their policies to meet rising Asian powers, the cost of maintaining the 800 or more military bases abroad will simply become unsustainable, eventually forcing Washington to withdraw gradually against the heart. With China and the United States who are in a race to the militarization of outer space and cyberspace, tensions between the two powers will certainly rise, making military conflict by 2025 at least plausible or less guaranteed.
To further complicate things, economic trends, military and technological briefly described above will not act so clearly isolated. As happened with the European empires after the Second World War, these negative forces will prove undoubtedly synergistic. They combine so completely unexpected, create crises that Americans are totally unprepared and threaten to send the economy into a sudden downward spiral, pushing the country into economic misery, for a generation or more.
As U.S. power fades, the past offers a range of possibilities for a future world order. At one end of the spectrum, the rise of a new global superpower, albeit unlikely, can not be ruled out. However, China and Russia appear both self-referential culture, writings abstruse non-Roman regional defense strategies and legal systems underdeveloped, challenging their key instruments for world domination. So in this case, no superpower seems to succeed in the United States. In
a black version of our cons-utopian future world, it is conceivable that a coalition of transnational corporations, multilateral forces like NATO and an international financial elite to develop a supranational network instability that would make any sense to the very idea of national empires. While companies and denationalized elites led multinational so usurped such a world safe from the urban enclaves, the multitudes would be relegated to land, rural or urban, abandoned.
In Planet of Slums [planet slums] Mike Davis offers at least a partial view from the bottom to the top of such a world. His argument is that the billion people (two billion by 2030) already crammed into fetid slums like favelas around the world, will be "wild and cities bankrupt Third World [...] the characteristic of the battlespace 21st century. " Then as darkness settles on some future super-slums, "the empire can deploy Orwellian technologies of repression," while "type of helicopter gunships hunting hornet enigmatic enemies in the narrow streets of the slums ... Every morning the slums responded with suicide bombers and eloquent explosions. "
the middle of this spectrum of possible futures, a new oligopoly might emerge between 2020 and 2040, with rising powers China, Russia, India and Brazil working with declining powers like Great Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States, to impose an ad hoc global domination, similar to the rough alliance of European empires that ruled half of humanity in 1900.
Another possibility: the rise of regional hegemons in return to something reminiscent of the international system in place before the modern empires are formed. In this neo-Westphalian world order, with its endless opportunities for micro-violence and uncontrolled exploitation, every hegemon dominates its immediate region - Brazil in South America, North America Washington, Pretoria, South Africa, etc.. The space, cyberspace and the deep sea, removed from the control of the former "policeman" warming, the United States, could even become the new common global, controlled by a Security Council expanded UN or other ad hoc institution.
All these scenarios extrapolate future trends existing on the assumption that the Americans, blinded by the arrogance of decades of power without historical precedent, can not take or not take steps to manage uncontrolled erosion of their position World.
If the decline of America is in fact a trajectory of 22 years between 2003 and 2025, while the Americans have already wasted most of the first decade of this decline with wars that have diverted the problems in the long -term and, in the same way that water is consumed rapidly by the desert sands, trillions of dollars wasted terribly necessary.
If there is only 15 years, the risk of wasting them all is still high. Congress and the President [U.S.] are now at an impasse, the U.S. system is overwhelmed by the money of large corporations that block plants, and little suggests that any issue of importance, including American wars, the national security state America's bloated, his impoverished educational system and its energy supply archaic, will be treated seriously enough to ensure the kind of soft landing that would maximize the role and prosperity of the United States in a changing world.
empires of Europe are gone and the supreme power of the United States continues. It seems increasingly unlikely that the U.S. will get something that looks one way or another to the success of Britain, to shape a world order managed to protect their interests, preserve their prosperity and bears the mark their best values.
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