Bruce Gagnon
Global Research
Global Research
Current US military space policy is primarily geared toward two countries, China and Russia.
In
May 2000 the Washington Post published an article called “For Pentagon,
Asia Moving to Forefront.” The article stated that, “The Pentagon is
looking at Asia as the most likely arena for future military conflict,
or at least competition.” The article said the US would double its
military presence in the region and essentially attempt to manage China.
The Pentagon has
become the primary resource extraction service for corporate capital.
Whether it is Caspian Sea oil and natural gas, rare earth minerals found
in Africa, Libya’s oil deposits, or Venezuelan oil, the US’s
increasingly high-tech military is on the case.
President Obama’s
former National Security Adviser, Gen. James Jones had previously served
as the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. In 2006, Gen. Jones told the
media,
“NATO is developing a special plan to safeguard oil and gas fields in the [Caspian Sea] region…. Our strategic goal is to expand to Eastern Europe and Africa.”In a past quadrennial National Intelligence Strategy report, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair claimed that Russia “may continue to seek avenues for reasserting power and influence in ways that complicate U.S. interests…[and] China competes for the same resources the United States needs, and is in the process of rapidly modernizing its military.”
Using NATO as a
military tool, the US is now surrounding Russia and easily dragged the
supposedly European-based alliance into the Afghanistan war and Libya
attack. The US is turning NATO into a global military alliance, even to
be used in the Asian-Pacific region.
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