Posted on 02/09/2011 4:54:33 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Senior Pentagon officials are sounding concern over China's development of weapons designed to shoot down satellites or jam communication signals.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense for Space Policy Gregory Schulte said China's project was becoming a "matter of concern" for the United States.
Space, he told defense and intelligence officials while unveiling a 10-year strategy for security in space, "is no longer the preserves of the United States and the Soviet Union, at the time in which we could operate with impunity."
"There are more competitors, more countries that are launching satellites ... and we increasingly have to worry about countries developing counter-space capabilities that can be used against the peaceful use of space."
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Cut defense, add illegals & health care.
What could go wrong?
The anti-American Boy in cheif got it under control. Barak’s breaking all records for taking vacations and he’s got a good bassaball game, what more could we want? Michelle’s vege garden is doing well, the kids are doing well and so is the doggy. And just because the economy’s falling apart at the seams while Hussein Obama is making it worse, and he’s doing nothing about Egypt and Iran, why would China’s military growth worry you? Just shut up and eat what they tell you to eat, go buy yourself a GM electric car and don’t forget to buy Obama Care insurance, and you’ll be just fine.
We should have taken the high ground years ago. If anyone takes it before us, we’re royally screwed.
Gee I wonder who insisted we give them the technology? Could it have been “POLITICANS?”
...and don’t forget to cut the defense budget on the way to the beach.
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