Has anyone noticed these creepy new Air Force ads? Space the final battlefield?

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http://www.airforce.com/achangingworld/?eref=flash_pentagon

Apparently, the Air Force has some sort of inadequacy issues; the Lord's Air Force is really tired of being the Marine's and Army's bitch all the time.

"Air Dominance!" "Space Dominance!" "Cyberspace Dominance."

Very butch!

The part where they say our national defense is no longer from sea to shining sea, though, but to the shining stars is particularly scary.

Note that Lt. Gen. Edward Anderson, deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, said a couple years back, regarding the Chinese space program:

"In my view it will not be long before space becomes a battleground. Our military forces ... depend very, very heavily on space capabilities, and so that is a statement of the obvious to our potential threat, whoever that may be. I believe space is the place we will fight in the next 20 years. I think the Chinese are telling us they're there, and I think if we ever wind up in a confrontation again with any one of the major powers who has a space capability we will find space is a battleground."

http://www.omnicenter.org/warpeacecollection/airspacewar.htm#warinspace

Note also that the WaPo reported two years ago, that despite all the international treaties we've signed designating space as off limits for weapons:

"President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone 'hostile to U.S. interests.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701484.html?referrer=email

And by "Hostile to U.S. interests" he means . . . the Chinese.

Not the Russians, naturally, we're going to need them and their 1960's space technology to get our people up the ISS after the Space Jalopy is grounded in ten more flights. It seems our next generation of space craft are having some manufacturing over-runs and won't be ready in time.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_COTS_Enigma_999.html

And that $8.1 billion contract with Lockheed Martin for the Orion space craft is right on schedule, right? No?

Btw, isn't the Air Force's catchy new slogan "Above All" actually an exact translation of "über alles" in German?