Practice makes Perfect: The Pentagon’s Space War!

The addled thinking of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency was on full display in late January when MDA officials conducted a missile defense war game on Capitol Hill.

In this war game, Midland, a fictional island nation located in the Sea of Japan, decides to attack its neighbors, South Korea and Japan. According to the formal briefing presented to participants and observers, this is because: “Tensions between Midland and Japan and South Korea have increased over oil reserves and fishing rights.” In this war game, Midland is not allowed to also attack North Korea because, well, Midland is North Korea. To be politically correct, MDA just doesn’t say so. Midland also attacks the United States, launching seven long-range missiles to “preclude U.S. involvement,” according to the briefing.
Your World At War

A recent Pentagon briefing claims the threat from enemy missiles is growing and shows missiles in 20 countries. But all but two of those 20 countries — Iran and North Korea — are either friends, allies, or countries from which we have no missile threat, e.g. Israel, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, South Korea, Moldova, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc.

The purpose of the recent war game — conducted just as President George W. Bush’s new defense budget was headed for Capitol Hill — was for members of Congress, their staffs and the press to see a missile defense fantasy, and then support that fantasy with billions of new taxpayer dollars.

In other words, when a new destructive weapons capability exists — however apparently diabolical or unprecedented it is — the historical record overwhelmingly documents that it will eventually be used.

Nor will any commander have all or perhaps even most of the ideal information he will require to make a certainly correct decision. Retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Dave Frost put it very well: “No operational commander can be sure he knows what he needs to know.”