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Star wars US tools of space supremacy

The expansion of space militarization forms a common thread with the explicit unilateral empire-building of the Bush administration. But just as Star Wars did not begin with the Missile Defense Agency, preventive war theory did not originate with Donald Rumsfeld. Advocates of military space always w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wirbel, Loring
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Pluto Press 2004
Subjects:
Ballistic missile defenses > United States
Astronautics, Military > United States
Space weapons
Space warfare
Space surveillance > United States
Militarism > United States
Military-industrial complex > United States
United States > Military policy
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Birth of Intelligence Policy and Space Use
  • 2. Civilian & Military Space Policies, Post-Sputnik
  • 3. Star Wars, Part 1: Safeguard, ABM, And Intelligence Struggles in Space
  • 4. Star Wars, Part 2: The Reagan Arms Buildup
  • 5. Intelligence Goes Real-Time
  • 6. Military Space Policy, Post-Challenger
  • 7. BMDO, 3+3, & The New Missile Threat
  • 8. 'In Your Face from Outer Space'
  • 9. Permanent War
  • 10. Reclaiming Multilateralism and Peace in Space

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