The purpose of this reference text is to provide information about space systems and their use for US Army and joint military operations. The intended primary users are US Army Command and General Staff College students, although military commanders, staff officers, Noncommissioned Officers, instructors, and anyone else applying space-based systems for military purposes may also find it useful. Military space operations are truly joint in their nature. There are many references to policies, programs, operations, and applications from many US Government organizations, the military services, and commercial entities. The format and contents provide a central reference regarding the environment of space, the capabilities and limitations of US satellite systems, space applications that support the military strategic, operational, and tactical levels, and space support planning considerations. In addition, the text provides a cursory background in space law, space policy, orbital mechanics, and threats to US dominance of space. The scope of this book provides a fundamental knowledge of space and space systems. The intent is for this to be a single reference source. Primary information is on space systems used by the US military. Because of the proliferation of space systems, information about other nations' systems is included on a limited basis. This reference excludes classified information to allow wider dissemination and access.

The Giggle Factor (GF). Mention "Planetary Defense" and you'll soon understand. Even without invoking the sinister vision of alien beings arriving to enslave or destroy humanity, the eyebrows of serious and senior members of the national defense and scientific communities go askew when the subject is broached, whether at cocktail parties or congressional budget hearings. Even the most ardent supporters of defending the Earth from cataclysmic cometary or asteroidal impacts share occasional public or private chuckles with colleagues and skeptics-behavior considered unthinkable when discussing means to avert or mitigate the catastrophic epidemics, wars of aggression and genocide, and terrestrial natural disasters that have peppered man's history on Earth.

Concern exists among an increasing number of scientists throughout the world regarding the possibility of a catastrophic event caused by an impact of a large earth-crossing object (ECO) on the Earth-Moon System (EMS), be it an asteroid or comet. Such events, although rare for large objects (greater than 1 kilometer diameter), are not unprecedented. Indeed, the great upheaval and resulting ice age that marked the extinction of the dinosaurs is thought to have been caused by the impact of a 10 km diameter asteroid. In 1908 a stony asteroid of approximately 50 meters diameter exploded in the air above the Tunguska River in Siberia, producing an equivalent yield of 15-30 megatons of TNT, and leveling over 2,000 square miles of dense forest. Such an event is thought to occur approximately every century. It is only a matter of time before the world finds itself in a crisis situation-a crisis involving the detection of a large ECO, leaving little time to react and resulting in global panic, chaos, and possible catastrophe. Collectively as a global community, no current viable capability exists to defend the EMS against a large ECO, leaving its inhabitants vulnerable to possible death and destruction of untold proportion and even possible extinction of the human race. In this regard, a planetary defense system (PDS) capability should be resourced, developed, and deployed. At this time Planetary Defense is not an assigned or approved mission of the Department of Defense or the Air Force. Such a system would consist of a detection subsystem, command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence (C4I) subsystem and a mitigation subsystem. There are many potential variations of these subsystems which, with advances in novel technologies, will be available by 2025 to develop a credible PDS. We propose a three-tier system developed sequentially in time and space. Such a system would serve not only as a means to preserve life on earth, but also help to unite the global community in a common effort that would promote peaceful cooperation and economic prosperity as related spin-offs and dual uses of novel technologies evolve.

Author Sean Keyhoe details his meeting with a government 'insider' who entrusted him with a dossier of top secret information that has been hidden for decades, accidentally lost in the attic of his previous residence. Now for the first time, this information is being released to the public. He needs your help in identifying when and where these photographs were taken. Prepare to be shocked and amazed at these stunning photographs from circa 1947. Are these actual images from Roswell? Were they taken in the secret inner rooms of Wright Patterson Air Force Base? This book also presents a collection and evaluation of transcripts of popular UFO incidents and testimonials. The author attempts to address the topic of UFOs and Aliens in a logical and straightforward manner. Insightful and level-headed; this book will be of interest to those who are new to UFO research, those who are merely curious on the topic and also to those who are experienced UFO researchers.

The story shows how two efficiency experts for a global agency on Earth, year 2,412, spend several years trying to un-ravel serious problems with Global Earth's Jupiter Program, a 100 year-old deep-space voyage of vast resources and wealth, to harvest raw-minerals and rare or very useful gases and frozen liquids, in humongous quantities. Daniel Deveroux and his associate Al Mendoza, work for Planetary Program Proficiency. But with the crash of the 'Ferrous-2' at an orbiting Titan-moon base, and other monsters lurking as solutions, in the strange world of long-term deep-space labor, unions, space-religions, and dangerous conditions, even 300 years from now. By the end of their research, hidden mysteries deep within Jupiter's hellish features, connect to un-happy distant galactic neighbors, with strange and 'alien' plans of their own for Jupiter's riches, and a gathering of eagles, to fight for human rights to the local planetary system.

Tom Luong is a Vietnamese American born in his native country just after the Vietnam War ended and raised mainly in California. Tom was born in November 11, 1976. His parents were refugees of the war and fled Communist Vietnam in the late 70's and was awarded sponsorship with a relative to live in Orange County in Southern California in late 1981. Like many Vietnamese that fled the Communism, his Dad (Mike Manh Van Luong born in 1949; Mom, Nancy Ngat Thi Le born 1954) was a POW during the war and this affected Tom in many ways. To understand about how his Dad felt during the war, Tom joined the US Army at one point and underwent basic training and was later deployed to South Korea. Tom later went to film school to hopefully make films someday about the war. After working with Julian Phillips on the first movie script, he expanded to writing books. Tom went to many colleges to gain a thorough understanding of the physical world and has a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona in 2001. He completed film studies in 2008 and directed his first feature film "The Grounded" in 2011. Tom is a futurist and likes to make movies about the future of Human existence.