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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
The War Room ^ | Brett Tingley

Posted on 12/19/2019 4:24:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast’s lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

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Kwast delivered a lecture at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2019, titled “The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force.” Kwast’s wide-ranging speech described the power of new technologies to revolutionize humankind, referencing the competitive advantage the discovery of fire offered to early humans and the strategic value that nuclear weapons offered 20th-century superpowers. When it comes to current revolutionary technologies, Kwast says the “the power of space will change world power forever” and that it’s up to the United States military to leverage that power...

Around the 12:00 mark in the speech, Kwast makes the somewhat bizarre claim that the U.S. currently possesses revolutionary technologies that could render current aerospace capabilities obsolete:

"The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."

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KEYWORDS: kwast; militaryspace; spaceforce; trumpdod; usaf
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To: RoosterRedux

without going back to check, my recollection is that elon musk is talking about one application of starship being mass civilian point to point transport anywhere on the planet within about one hour...


81 posted on 12/19/2019 8:16:16 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: George Rand

Radiation kills so does starvation, dehydration, and hostiles with weapons. The analogy is apt. How so you know what is or is not on the moon? Been there? Look around, there are lots of things that say all is not as it seems.

You sound like one of those guys always demanding proof and documentation for everything anyone says without bothering to do any looking on your part. Maybe you aren’t, but you sound like you accept everything the MSN and establishment says as gospel.


82 posted on 12/19/2019 8:18:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: RoosterRedux
Beam me up Scotty. 😆
83 posted on 12/19/2019 8:24:57 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RoosterRedux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0


84 posted on 12/19/2019 8:34:53 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: RoosterRedux; All

Dr Steven Greer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NpkckISywA&list=PLdB5_JQvO-7JI34PlBsWx_LNAtZMbnaok


85 posted on 12/19/2019 8:58:23 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: TStro

Yes, there are many sightings witnessing them enter or exit an inter-dimensional portal.


86 posted on 12/19/2019 9:11:53 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Like a Warp Field. That’s why the Starship USS Enterprise wasn’t equipped with Seat Belts.

How come they were always getting thrown around the bridge then? (grin)

I always thought that was the cheeziest part of Star Trek. At the speeds they were running, even the slightest lateral acceleration would throw them right through the skin of the craft.

87 posted on 12/19/2019 9:15:48 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: chrisser

Lol


88 posted on 12/19/2019 9:50:51 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: Future Snake Eater

Maybe it’s just me being shallow but “Space Force” is supposed to conjure images of zooming around in rockets and firing lasers and stuff. Sitting in a cubicle looking at a screen somehow misses a little bit.


89 posted on 12/19/2019 9:53:25 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Justa

Sounds good to me. . .as far as I know. . .as I am in no way a scientist.


90 posted on 12/19/2019 10:03:10 AM PST by Hulka
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To: wastoute
"space Force" does conjure up Buck Rogers images. But thats not it at all, at least not for several decades if not centuries.

Space has been a force multiplier for the armed forces for decades now. Its implementation however, has been at times disparate and overlapping. The navy has a Navy Space component, the Air Force has a Space Command component, the Army has something as well. There have been many re-orgs over the decades to try to consolidate, coordinate, and and prevent unnecessary duplicity between these components, but still its not as efficient as it could be.

The standing up of the Space Force is the latest attempt to make the necessary inclusion of space environment and assets available to the warfighter as force multipliers without wasting tax dollars. I am all for that.

The flip side is that, unlike the other services, the space force will be a desk and cubicle, sometimes console, cadre of engineers and systems acquisition specialists and operators, not direct combatants. I think the other services who are tip of the spear, deploy spending time away from family, etc, may have a bit of problem with calling this a sister service. In fact, these deploying combatants will lose CONUS assignment opportunities as a result. After spending 3 years overseas, now there are fewer 'shore' tours because a bunch of them just got hogged up by suit and tie folks who never have to deploy.

But the bottom line probably comes back to being more efficient with the national treasury tax dollars while staying ahead of our adversaries in the exploitation and enemy denial of space.

91 posted on 12/19/2019 10:09:40 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Fla.Deporable

32-years?

Maybe he misspoke. Anything over 30-yrs requires an act of congress.

What rank was he?

Where did he take is poly’s and how often?

Where was he stationed where this supposed technology was seen?

These are not classified info or even EEFI, so, he is free to answer.


92 posted on 12/19/2019 10:10:07 AM PST by Hulka
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To: TADSLOS

And as Eisenhower said in that same speech, academia is an even greater threat,


93 posted on 12/19/2019 10:11:38 AM PST by Hulka
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To: PapaBear3625
Perhaps a manned version of the X-37 Space Plane?

Let's consider that.

The circumference of the Earth in miles is 24,901. So that means that a manned re-entry vehicle has to achieve speeds well excess of 24, 901/mph. Don't even know to begin to estimate rate and time of acceleration and deceleration.

Color me sceptical but curious....

94 posted on 12/19/2019 10:17:24 AM PST by Covenantor (https://www. are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Arones

Hal Puthoff would be a good guy to talk with. I was using layman terms since I am not a scientist and he is truly a deep thinker and was trying to tell me you can avoid being limited to speed of light when you no longer have mass, and I think he said isolating means you don’t have mass getting in the way. I think that is what he said, but ya know, it was a personal conversation in Austin, TX, back in 2002 (https://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/puthoff.html).


95 posted on 12/19/2019 10:22:44 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Covenantor

low earth orbit speed is 17k mph


96 posted on 12/19/2019 10:44:48 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Covenantor

the typical time to get into low earth orbit via rocket is 10-12 minutes


97 posted on 12/19/2019 10:47:38 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Hulka

Scalar field technology.


98 posted on 12/19/2019 11:42:40 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

I thought CA had canceled the bullet train and the President had used the money for the “wall”... /s


99 posted on 12/19/2019 12:02:39 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Openurmind

Exactly. . .whatever that is.

;-)


100 posted on 12/19/2019 1:16:01 PM PST by Hulka
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