Star wars : US tools of space supremacy / Loring Wirbel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wirbel, Loring, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballistic missile defenses--United States.

Ballistic missile defenses.

Astronautics, Military--United States.

Astronautics, Military.

Space weapons.

Space warfare.

Space surveillance--United States.

Space surveillance.

Militarism--United States.

Militarism.

Military-industrial complex--United States.

Military-industrial complex.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 174 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 were on the front line of those demanding global dominance. Loring Wirbel argues that the seeds for the current space supremacy doctrine were sown at the end of the Cold War, in the early days of the Clinton administration. Examining the evolution of space-based tools, Wirbel shows that missile defense strategy is part of a dangerous US move to wage endless preventive war and demand global supremacy over allies and adversaries alike.Star Wars: US Tools of Space Supremacy provides a fresh look at the role of space as an enabler of the Bush administration's plans for endless preventive war. It debunks the benign notions of missile defence, and expands the definition of space supremacy beyond that of weapons in space, to include the unilateral misuse of space-based intelligence, communications, and targeting technologies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611725532

9781849642095

1849642095

9781281725530

1281725536

9781435661295

143566129X

OCLC:

666932758