There is no CLIMATE CHANGE emergency
It's man pretending to be mother nature...
Search on www.canada.ca “weather modification”…
Above sites are gems:
An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025: An Application of Value-Focused Thinking to Future Air and Space Capabilities (report from 12/1996
Weather Modification Information ACT
Canada-US agreement on weather and climate collaboration
When has man made every been superior to Mother Nature?
What's most interesting about this paper is the year in which it was published, 1996, which is 5 years after the breakup of the USSR. So who was the potential enemy that required this level of planning? As one indicator of the direction things were moving at the time take a look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
And as one indicator of the lack of insight western planners brought to the table:
"The program was credited for being one of the most successful disarmament programs in history, but its low set price for nuclear fuel caused Western companies to not invest in uranium refining capacity, resulting by 2022 in Russia's government-owned Rosatom becoming the supplier of about 50% of the world's enriched uranium, and 25% of the nuclear fuel used in the US."
The document looks like it was intended to impress someone, as opposed to describe an actual practical approach to the systems and concepts listed, but who were they trying to impress? My guess would be Congress. If you're going to run a Military Industrial Complex such as Eisenhower warned us about in 1961, then you have to impress the people who control the purse strings. That's my impression, because as an actual implementation plan the document is lacking in several key aspects.
First, where are you going to acquire the materials needed to implement the program? If Russia is no longer your prime adversary, that leave China as the new post-Soviet boogeyman. So, if western dominance is the objective, how does it make any sense to relocate most of your manufacturing capacity to China?
Then there's this:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-rare-earths-dominance-focus-after-mineral-export-curbs-2023-07-05/
Read that carefully because it contains all the information you need to know about US capabilities in the area of advanced weapons systems, all of which depend heavily on these minerals. Also, as a former investor in mining exploration, I can tell you that there's no practical alternative to replacing China as a supplier of most of these materials. They simply aren't there in any western nation in amounts that make it possible to replace what China supplies. In much the same way as providence provided half the world's oil to the Gulf States, she provided most of the world's rare earth minerals to China.
Another indicator of the lack of awareness of the paper's authors is the availability of the expertise needed to design and engineer the proposed systems. By 1996 a noticeable shift in graduate degrees away from science and engineering in favour of business and economics was already in place, a trend which continues to this day. I recall articles in the Wall Street Journal about how mathematicians and physicists were being lured by Wall Street into abandoning their defence related work to focus on so-called 'quantative analysis' which was the current buzzword for using computer systems and algorithms to game the markets. The financial rewards were such that no civilian or military program could compete. Today we see the result in the need to import such experts on H-1B visas, many of whom come from, you guessed it, China.
So your potential enemy is not only supplying 70-80% of your strategic minerals, but a good portion of your research teams as well, which has obvious implications for espionage as well as military preparedness.
Like I said, this paper seems designed to impress the enablers in Congress, most of whom are lawyers and in no way qualified to understand the contents, most of whom probably didn't read it anyway. As long as it's thick, has lots of charts and a plethora of fancy words and concepts, it gets the job done, which is to keep the money flowing to the corporations who provide the systems, and who also generously employ the generals and congress creatures who support them once they retire from office.
Meanwhile, the vanquished enemy of the Cold War emerges from the ashes in 2000, and forges ahead with actual practical approaches to the problems listed in this paper, to the effect that they are now at least ten years ahead in their development, with no sign of slowing down. The evidence for this is in the performance of Russian vs, NATO systems in the present Ukraine conflict. To cite one example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal
Bear in mind that it's Wikipedia's role to understate anything having to do with the Russian defence industry, but the basic facts are there. There's no defence against this type of missile, which obsolesces the aircraft carrier as a means of maritime power projection. Add to this the recent statement by Russia that, in response to supplying Russia's enemies with US weapons systems, they reserve the right to supply NATOs enemies with similar systems. This is a complete change in doctrine, where in the past Russia only supplied previous generations of their systems to foreign buyers, keeping the good stuff for themselves. Now nations such as Iran and China are being supplied with not only advanced missile defence systems, such as the S400, but also offensive systems such as the Kinzhal and similar platforms.
Many years ago Mao Zedong described America as a 'paper tiger' which at the time was arguably untrue, but today rings truer than ever. Still dangerous, mostly to her allies, but quite incapable of winning a conventional war against any but the most disadvantaged nations, such as Granada or Iraq. Of course winning isn't really the objective anymore. Protracted conflict enabling the arms industry to prosper is the real goal here, a goal which Russia and China are quite aware of, and doing everything in their power to disrupt. So far they are succeeding, which is why all the bellicose rhetoric and sheer panic coming out of Washington these days. People who are secure in their dominant position don't normally do that, they speak softly and carry a big stick.
Great links Cheri. Your on fire...Kman