USAF General Warns Of Space War "In A Matter Of Years"

by Tyler Durden
Wed, 02/28/2018 - 02:45

It is only “a matter of years” before the US fights “from space,” the United States Air Force’s top brass warned. USAF General David Goldfein’s speech on Friday expressed the starkest prediction yet — more endless wars and a battlefield that could very well be in outer space.

In a keynote speech, Goldfein made the comments on February 23 at the Air Force Association’s 34th annual Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition in Orlando, Florida.

“[It’s] time for us as a service, regardless of specialty badge, to embrace space superiority with the same passion and sense of ownership as we apply to air superiority today,” he stated.

SpaceNews said Goldfein warned the audience it is not a question of if, but when, the war in outer space begins.

“I believe we’re going to be fighting from space in a matter of years,” he said. “And we are the service that must lead joint war fighting in this new contested domain. This is what the nation demands.”

SpaceNews further said, Goldfein has been an alarmist in past speeches about an imminent space war. However, the online publication that covers news in space and satellite industry considers his latest speech “more emphatic and stark about the role of the Air Force in space warfare.”

Goldfein’s broader message is that the Air Force has to prepare for decades of hybrid wars across air, space, and cyber domains. He added the Air Force is behind the curve when it comes preparedness in fighting cyber and space domains.

Goldfein embraces the idea, America’s endless wars will be fought on a multi-domain basis. “I look forward to discussing how we can leverage new technology and new ways of networking multi-domain sensors and resilient communications to bring more lethality to the fight,” he said.

Back in October, we reported how the US Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, called for a new strategy across multiple domains—space, cyberspace, air, land, maritime— in endless wars stretching from 2025 to 2040 timeframe. It seems as Goldfein is whistling the same tune of the US Army as the American empire is headed towards conflict.

To prepare for a fight on a multi-domain platform, the Air Force requires more money from taxpayers. Goldfein has instructed Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, the commander of Air Education and Training Command, to oversee the program to prep airmen for future space operations.

“We need to build a joint, smart space force and a space-smart joint force,” Goldfein said.

According to Spacenews, the Air Force is looking to spend some $44.3 billion in space systems over the next five years:

The narrative that the Air Force is more focused on space also is reflected in the budget proposal for fiscal year 2019. According to budget documents, the Air Force is seeking $8.5 billion for space programs — $5.9 billion in the research and development accounts, and $2.6 billion for procurement of new satellites and launch services. The 2019 request is 7.1 percent more than the Air Force sought in last year’s budget. Over the next five years, the Air Force projects to invest $44.3 billion in space systems — $31.5 billion in research and development, and $12.8 billion in procurement. That would mark an 18 percent increase over the $37.5 billion five-year plan submitted last year.

While America’s military-industrial complex is conditioning Washington for endless wars, and multiple domain battlefields that could very likely be in outer space. David Stockman rails against the out of control US military spending and says the combined “warfare state” and “welfare state” spending threatens “to kill the financial outlook of this country.”

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MK ULTRA Alpha Haus-Targaryen Wed, 02/28/2018 - 04:24 Permalink

I wonder how many know the US Army has just recently opened a base in Israel?

US Army Israel Command has opened it's first base in Israel.

How does a US Army air defense base in Israel have anything to do with the national security of the US?

This has been in the planning for the last ten years. How many more bases have the Congressional Zionist Jews and their neocon supporters planned for?

Bled Kosher.

 

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DipshitMiddleC… MK ULTRA Alpha Wed, 02/28/2018 - 09:59 Permalink

That isn't true.

 

it's a command center inside an existing israeli airforce base..hardly a "military base"

 

lets just say they will not be tolerating the behavior dindus toward their women. ive had marines tell me that when they trained with the IDF they weren't allowed to touch the jewesses and more importantly they also told the US marines they were bullet sponges.

 

bhwahah

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just the tip Haus-Targaryen Wed, 02/28/2018 - 07:29 Permalink

i'll attempt a nitpik at your question.  i think they have been this way for a long time, it's now just, "in your face".

it came out in vietnam, that a certain segment said, "don't knock it, it's the only war we got".  that was how long ago?

now, they have cover from media and the liars in congress are more polished in their propaganda.

so.  just to keep talking in circles here, it has the perception of getting worse.

OT

the reason i gave the answer i did, is because i just watched a youtube on US plan red.  if you're not familiar with that, it was the US war plan created in '27/'28 to go to war with britain.  it wasn't just the generals/admirals.  the US congress was talking about it.  and kept it pretty damn hush-hush as well, considering the planning and scope of the operations.  then the new york times ran a front page spread on the plan.  the rub of the thing was the run up to plan red, was eerily similar to the run-up in '38/'39.  it was like, we don't care who we fight, let's just fight.  and that's ok, if you're 12, and on a playground for recess, and you want to get the attention of the cute redhead with curls, but the shit they are talking about is more permanent.  and just to be more long winded, the video that i saw did not intend to do it, i don't think, but they inadvertently reported on some dots, that when the dots were connected to other information, almost gave me an "ah ha" moment of the rothchilds created the depression in the US to prevent the US from going to war with britain.

teach you to ask a question here.

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Mustafa Kemal Haus-Targaryen Wed, 02/28/2018 - 09:49 Permalink

"Has the MiC always been this bad or is it just getting worse? "

Worse.

You can measure it by the MIC budget 

the number of overseas military bases

the number of wars currently engaged in

They are feeling a little cramped by the earth.

Theyve destroyed the ME. South America, Europe several times, working on NK,  Lebabon and Iran, Russia and China.

DHS will do its job on the US.

They will fail, but I fear we all will pay heavily for the folly.

 

 

Im looking forward to the Parade!

 

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Greed is King Haus-Targaryen Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:44 Permalink

The MIC of every country has always been bad, but the American MIC made huge huge mega bucks out of WW2 and ever since have been paying the Politicians to fill their trough to overflowing, that means eternal enemies and eternal warfare is required, and if necessary, manufactured. So, in a perverse way, Russia is safe from America, it would`nt serve the MIC`s purpose to destroy its number one bogey man, they need the anti-Russia propaganda to scare the public out of its tax dollars.

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Parrotile 07564111 Wed, 02/28/2018 - 03:24 Permalink

There is also the Sary Shagan Terra-3 "superlaser" facility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra-3

Officially development stopped with the signing of the 1972 ABM Treaty, but a lot of work had been done, and the infrastructure was not destroyed, rather re purposed (for commercial use - housing two fairly low-powered lasers, as found by the CIA in the 1980's)

Forty-six years later, and technology (along with the precision of aquisition & tracking systems, and compensation for atmospheric distortion) has moved forward a VERY long way. We have already seen serious proposals for ground-based lasers as a potential asteroid defence system (the DE-STAR System)- so if we can ablate the surface of a small asteroid, moving very fast, at long ranges - I'd be less than shocked to hear that Russian technology exists to do essentially the same to orbiting objects - whose orbits are known and positions therefore predictable.

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-laser-weapon-earth-killer-asteroids.html

As to the Wiki entry on that radio telescope - seems "The International Community" is STILL having a big problem accepting that Crimea is once again part of Russia - despite the overwhelming decision by those "actually living there" to rejoin the Homeland.

"Ukraine and the majority of the international community considers Crimea and Yevpatoria an integral part of Ukraine, while Russia, on the other hand, considers Crimea and Yevpatoria an integral part of Russia."

Wikipedia - obviously NOT biting the hand that feeds it!

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Jack Oliver Wed, 02/28/2018 - 02:50 Permalink

Why would you ‘broadcast’ this SHIT ??? 

As a warning to Russia and China ?? 

Its only been 50 years since ‘Thunderbirds are go’ and they couldn’t even hide the FUCKING strings !!! 

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ted41776 Wed, 02/28/2018 - 02:57 Permalink

if these motherfuckers ever discover a gateway into other dimensions, you can be rest assured that they'd start shoving tanks and nukes down that hole faster than you can say what WMDs? how does that saying go? when the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer..... waging war in a fucking vacuum? really? while there are kids with flies on their faces starving to death on this earth?

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Hillarys Server Wed, 02/28/2018 - 03:12 Permalink

"And we are the service that must lead joint war fighting in this new contested domain. This is what the nation demands.”

Speak for yourself general.

I don't demand war from space.

I want the US to join hands with China and Russia and increase economic interdependence and cooperation.

I don't demand an imaginary enemy and perpetual war to line the pockets of the trillion dollar military industrial congressional media complex.

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JDFX Wed, 02/28/2018 - 03:20 Permalink

Hilarious. Mankind can't escape Low Earth Orbit.  This space you talk of, is between your ears. 

 

Why do you think modern day astronauts hope , repeat hope, to be able to go beyond low earth orbit and through the radiation belts ? 

 

Do you really think we did it SIXTY YEARS ago, but CANNOT do it now ? 

 

Look at the wires worn in the International space station .   It's FAKE ! 

 

 

 

 

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css1971 Wed, 02/28/2018 - 03:21 Permalink

It takes 10+ years to design, develop, test new aircraft never mind spacecraft. This means they already have  the military spacecraft required for space warfare and if they don't get to use them they'll have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Fireman Wed, 02/28/2018 - 04:12 Permalink

Get the civil war in Slumville reloaded already before you get kicked to bits by the combined forces of Planet Earth for countless crimes against humanity. USSA  has to be taken down, no other solution to this evil.

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Neochrome Wed, 02/28/2018 - 04:33 Permalink

It tells you what is the real human nature. Opening space would give to whole humanity resources for centuries just from mining asteroids. But it is clearly not just about resources. It is also about crushing your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Fucking space barbarians.