Re: Future Space War

From: Abrigon Gusiq (abrigon_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:10:43 -0900
To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org

Military in the 22nd Century?

Will the continued joint action of the mulitary happen, to where the
current separate services will join and become more like branches of one
military. Much like how the US Army has Infantry, Aviatio, Adjutant
General and like branches.

Also will the services divide along jobs or what? Such as you have the
Fleet, who is into solar system defense and patrolling. Such as
protecting the various mining and like sites from dangers.

Basically the military to become more like home planet defense, and a
space guard (coast guard like)

Atleast until we either expand outside of our solar system, or some
enemy from space comes to give us a threat.

Mike

Andrew Swallow wrote:
>
> "Paul F Austin" <pfaustin@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:iGzmc.9846$cb.5196@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > I participated in a panel discussion on hardening satellite communications
> > at the FCC about two years ago. The upshot is that hardening the satellite
> > control links against jamming and spoofing is more urgent (because it can
> be
> > attacked more cheaply) and that satellite owners will not harden sats
> > against these kinds of threats unless required to do so by licensing
> > agencies.
> >
> Very little civilian infrastructure is built to survive nuclear war.
>
> (A certain British nuclear submarine was called HMS Revenge
> not HMS Police Action. We want you to deter nuclear war
> rather than fight one.)
>
> Spoofing can be prevented by encrypting the control
> channel. AES encryption, which is as strong as most
> military systems, can be performed using a single
> off the shelf chip. It can also be performed using
> software. Only decrypted commands with the correct
> time and date should be obeyed.
> www.jennic.com/site/ip_products/productbriefs/pdf/j-aes-cop.pdf
>
> Commercial firms will protect their equipment against
> attack when they consider it worth while. Time on
> satellites costs many dollars per hour. A blackmailer
> only needs to switch a satellite off for a short time
> before it becomes cheaper to build encryption in.
>
> Multi-million dollar solar powered communications
> satellites can be rendered useless by instructing
> the satellite to point its solar cells away from the
> sun and simply waiting for the batteries to go flat.
>
> A ground station used to jam the control channel
> of a satellite does not need to be in the front line,
> it can be in a military base a hundred miles behind
> the line.
>
> Since communication satellites have not been attacked
> by the military, terrorists or blackmailers neither they
> nor their insurance companies think it is worthwhile.
>
> Andrew Swallow