Today is the day we remember when the Americans relied on a Welsh poet to rally humanity save Earth from aliens.
"Original Sin achieves the feat of bringing a breath of fresh air to an expert community accustomed to operating in a vacuum, rehashing reductionist postures, while shaking up an academic or scientific community whose refusal of political relevance anchored in a solid idealism is too often synonymous with disconnection from the issues it claims to describe, explain and understand."
https://politique-etrangere.com/2023/07/03/original-sin-power-technology-and-war-in-outer-space/
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
Cette recension a été publiée dans le numéro d’été 2023 de Politique étrangère (n° 2/2023). Guilhem Penent propose une analyse de l’ouvrage de Bleddyn E. Bowen, Original Sin: Power, Tec…
Yes the article is as bonkers as that front page splash.
‘Mr Prime Minister, we cannot allow a cosmic moon nuke gap!’
The Radio 5 Live episode of The Thick of It is possibly one of the best.
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A US FOBS will do little to stop China bombarding enemy bases across the region, will not help Taiwanese forces repel an amphibious invasion, and does not provide new capabilities for the US. Similarly for China - no new capability. Yet it's described as 'game-changing'...?
Also I'm not sure how much of a gap it is in the space surveillance network. In the Chinese FOBS test US systems were good enough apparently for an anon USSF source to say it 'defied the laws of physics' and landed within 12 miles of its target.
This is a particularly odd thing to say - ICBMs effectively provide the ability to strike anywhere on Earth through space. It's what US Prompt Global Strike was all about. And FOBS will provide no countermeasure to Chinese strike options, hypersonic glide or ballistic!
So the argument in that opinion piece is about 'more deterrence'. But a US FOBS is just irrelevant for deterrence and warfare as all it is is a different and redundant delivery method for US weapons which are already delivered via other, proven, more cost effective methods.
Alexander Clarkson