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(Daily Express)   US General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warns 'next Pearl Harbor' will probably be fought in space, also says Germans won't be so lucky this time (possible nsfw content on page)   (express.co.uk) divider line
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Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 8:19:06 AM  
13 votes:
No. It'll be at Singapore.

Stop trying to make space war happen where there are perfectly fine simmering conflicts down here already. No pudding until you finish your meat.
 
whyRpeoplesostupid [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 8:48:25 AM  
11 votes:
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as far as I'm concerned, we're still fighting YOU, asshole

retire or DIAF, just GTFO of my government
 
synithium
2020-12-04 11:37:04 AM  
9 votes:
Umm...do we have thousands of soldiers in space?

No?  Then that ain't Pearl Harbor.
 
89 Stick-Up Kid
2020-12-04 11:35:20 AM  
7 votes:
In other words, the space force needs more money?
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 9:47:58 AM  
7 votes:

whyRpeoplesostupid: as far as I'm concerned, we're still fighting YOU, asshole

retire or DIAF, just GTFO of my government


From everything I can tell, he is an honorable man and a good flag officer. But, I do have to agree. Biden should definitely wipe the deck and the General should go be on the board of Raytheon, Boeing, or/and some private equity thingy.
 
Ginnungagap42 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 11:59:52 AM  
6 votes:

Ishkur: Sooo... Space Japan is going to attack our starport on the far side of the moon? Is that what's going to happen?

I'm having trouble with the analogy.


Meanwhile...
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Blathering Idjut
2020-12-04 11:57:44 AM  
6 votes:

Mr. Breeze: maldinero: Blow shiat up in orbit, and let the pieces fall where they may.
Makes perfect sense to me.
What could possibly go wrong?

Milly's not wrong. Most people seem to equate space warfare to Space Marines and bullshiat like that. Honestly it will be more like an enemy state taking out a few satellites in LEO and GEO creating a Kessler syndrome making those orbits useless to satellites for decades. If you can't picture the devastating impact if that, then you're focusing on the wrong aspect of the Space Force's mission. Just because it was created under Trump doesn't make it invalid.


The Air Force was handling that fine.  Space Force is a useless waste of resources and should be folded back into the AF come January.
 
Mr. Breeze
2020-12-04 11:48:25 AM  
5 votes:

maldinero: Blow shiat up in orbit, and let the pieces fall where they may.
Makes perfect sense to me.
What could possibly go wrong?


Milly's not wrong. Most people seem to equate space warfare to Space Marines and bullshiat like that. Honestly it will be more like an enemy state taking out a few satellites in LEO and GEO creating a Kessler syndrome making those orbits useless to satellites for decades. If you can't picture the devastating impact if that, then you're focusing on the wrong aspect of the Space Force's mission. Just because it was created under Trump doesn't make it invalid.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 8:22:57 AM  
5 votes:
Is is 1984 again?!?! Jesus Christ. President Raygun will save us with Star Wars!!

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RasIanI
2020-12-04 12:11:01 PM  
4 votes:
The Next Pearl Harbor was on 9/11, General
 
hotrod2001
2020-12-04 11:49:32 AM  
4 votes:
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cendojr [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 12:17:33 PM  
3 votes:

Mr. Breeze: Blathering Idjut: Mr. Breeze: maldinero: Blow shiat up in orbit, and let the pieces fall where they may.
Makes perfect sense to me.
What could possibly go wrong?

Milly's not wrong. Most people seem to equate space warfare to Space Marines and bullshiat like that. Honestly it will be more like an enemy state taking out a few satellites in LEO and GEO creating a Kessler syndrome making those orbits useless to satellites for decades. If you can't picture the devastating impact if that, then you're focusing on the wrong aspect of the Space Force's mission. Just because it was created under Trump doesn't make it invalid.

The Air Force was handling that fine.  Space Force is a useless waste of resources and should be folded back into the AF come January.

The Air Force was handling it fine for the Air Force and AF assets, which is their MO. Not for the other branches that also depend on space, nor for the American commercial interests.


A big problem is Spaaaaace Force! is the size of a 1-star command, but elevation to service level makes it 4-star.  It's going to be super top-heavy, super redundant, or the responsibilities will be way out of line (for any given rank) with the rest of the services.

BiglyHands was one million percent thinking Space Marines with robot suits and space shuttles shooting laser beams.  What Space Force will actually do doesn't need a service level branch, it just needs a little nudging to be more joint.
 
stamped human bacon
2020-12-04 11:49:57 AM  
3 votes:

synithium: Umm...do we have thousands of soldiers in space?

No?  Then that ain't Pearl Harbor.


Soldiers weren't the target at Pearl Harbor... control of the Pacific Ocean was.
 
maldinero
2020-12-04 11:42:02 AM  
3 votes:
Blow shiat up in orbit, and let the pieces fall where they may.
Makes perfect sense to me.
What could possibly go wrong?
 
ifky
2020-12-04 11:34:59 AM  
3 votes:
Possibly on a very tall mountain.
 
Blahbbs [OhFark]
2020-12-04 12:19:44 PM  
2 votes:
Right now, more Americans are dying of COVID-19 every day than died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

EVERY. FARKING. DAY.
 
jsnbase
2020-12-04 11:57:43 AM  
2 votes:
I got this:

The next Pearl Harbor will be at Pearl Harbor. Otherwise it would be called something else.

/ What's a meta for?
 
Mr. Breeze
2020-12-04 11:56:12 AM  
2 votes:

LowbrowDeluxe: First country to openly take steps to break the moratorium on militarizing space suddenly real worried about military action in space.  News at Go fark Yourself O'Clock.


There's no militarization of space just because we have a branch dedicated to space. The purpose is not kinetic warfare in or from space. That's the "romanticized" definition of Space Force but it's not reality.
 
quizzical
2020-12-04 11:55:46 AM  
2 votes:

mercator_psi: Someone's been watching too much Moonraker.


More like book 5 of the Expanse series.
 
Comic Book Guy [BareFark]
2020-12-04 11:46:25 AM  
2 votes:

whyRpeoplesostupid: [Fark user image 850x566]

as far as I'm concerned, we're still fighting YOU, asshole

retire or DIAF, just GTFO of my government


Bingo.

Minute 1 of the Biden presidency better see retirement papers from Milley on the Resolute Desk.  Barring that, assign him to Alaska.  He can be king shiat of fark mountain over there.
 
Ishkur [TotalFark]
2020-12-04 11:44:23 AM  
2 votes:
Sooo... Space Japan is going to attack our starport on the far side of the moon? Is that what's going to happen?

I'm having trouble with the analogy.
 
NephilimNexus
2020-12-04 10:11:10 PM  
1 vote:
The first battle fought in Earth's orbit will also be the last one, because the debris from it will make launching anything into space impossible for the three thousand years or so.
 
Mr. Breeze
2020-12-04 11:53:40 AM  
1 vote:

stamped human bacon: synithium: Umm...do we have thousands of soldiers in space?

No?  Then that ain't Pearl Harbor.

Soldiers weren't the target at Pearl Harbor... control of the Pacific Ocean was.


Bingo. Thank you. Control of space is the target here.
 
LowbrowDeluxe
2020-12-04 11:51:42 AM  
1 vote:
First country to openly take steps to break the moratorium on militarizing space suddenly real worried about military action in space.  News at Go fark Yourself O'Clock.
 
Nullav
2020-12-04 11:49:13 AM  
1 vote:
Has anyone figured out why the hell Russia, China, India, or like...France would attack the US from orbit when ICBMs are a thing, other than "because they can...maybe"? I realize that defense is a continuous conveyor belt of money to a handful of states, but when it gets this farking obvious, it's time to calm down. Maybe order a few hundred more tanks to park at Fort Hood for a few decades.
 
PanicAttack [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-12-04 11:41:55 AM  
1 vote:
LOL. Gretchen Whitmer would probably have a different opinion.

What an out of touch assclown.
 
mercator_psi
2020-12-04 11:41:19 AM  
1 vote:
Someone's been watching too much Moonraker.
 
Galileo's Daughter
2020-12-04 11:36:17 AM  
1 vote:
Forget it, he's rolling.
 
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