why global defence should be our major defence

In 1983 Ronald Reagan delivered his speech initiating the Strategic Defense Initiative system dubbed 'Star Wars', this envisioned a hi-tech defense ground and space defense network, but throughout the years it has changed from global to regional, Ronald Reagan who among other things claimed to have seen UFO's when he was a child living in California had hinted at clear aims to make SDI as a global defense against the unknown, in 1986 he had even offered the Soviets the technology they were working on, Gorbachev had this to say:

"Excuse me, Mr. President, but I do not take your idea of sharing SDI seriously. You don't want to share even petroleum equipment, automatic machine tools or equipment for dairies, while sharing SDI would be a second American Revolution."

Now that the Soviet Union is gone the Cold War is over (theoretically), America has lost a lot of initiative since the 1990's and the Military Industrial Complex has gone out of control, building tilt rotor aircraft to fight insurgents in pickup trucks and failed fighter jets that cost a fortune.

But what about Star Wars?

The system has since been renamed and moved to regional defense with the suggestions of $6.6 billion to be spent on ballistic missile defense systems to protect mainland USA against attacks from North Korea or "accidental" launches from Russia or China.

The money for all of this can be put to much better use, technologically the world today is tiny, better economic ties should be made between east and west considering its the start of a new century and we've pretty much spent the last nine years being indifferent to the other side of the world one way or another.

The SDI should be resurrected on a global scale, with interlinked missile and radar bases spread across the world along with satellites and space vehicles with kinetic energy and/or laser weapons in space because we don't know what is out there and if there is anything hostile it would be better not to be caught with our pants down and at least be able to mean a little bit of business.



Maybe in practical terms the $300 billion plus spent on the War on Terror would go a long way funding different guided surface launched missiles, along with that simple kinetic energy weapons mounted on space vehicles would be a start, and when something gets a good kick start there is no telling on how far its development would evolve over a fifty year period. *


F-15 Eagle launching ASAT anti satellite missile

Along with this interlinked system a shared colony on the moon along with short range defensive missiles would help spread the system along way and give it a good start on its evolution, while ideas similar to these have been played around with its about time they got a solid start!

* I suppose that can't be said about after the moon landing