I wasn’t planning for this to be my debut post here on Lifeboat.com. It was a draft in advance of the NATO Chicago meeting. But Lifeboat’s administrator thought enough of it to post it somewhat in advance of my intention, unfortunately without supporting detail. Ample links can be found in the article authored by Ben and sourced in his comment, however. Other supporting information will come in my subsequent posts on this subject.

Also, Roger’s observation about the capabilities and capacity of NATO’s ballistic-missile defense (BMD) systems is cold comfort – in fact, that’s why these systems are so destabilizing. They appear to be designed and situated to intercept the disorganized, ragged retaliatory response resulting from A NUCLEAR FIRST STRIKE. As such, they are gravely destabilizing, particularly because they effectively vacate US-Russian ABM treaties going back to the 1970s.

I agree with Ben that the Russians have taken a constructive line in their proposal for planetary defense, and that they are serious about it. To that, I would add that Lifeboat can and should gain traction from this. It’s not unlike the re-framing of the Cold War into a Peace Race by the Kennedy administration, which led to a useful spurt of socio-economic development in the spaces where resources and arms sales weren’t up for grabs.

So, I’m happy to have something on the boards here at last, and glad for the opportunity. It’s a refreshing change from my experience at another futurist outlet, where my work (copywrited and registered prior to submission for “development assistance”) appeared with nice four-color artwork, in a luxury of detail – and with somebody else’s name on it.

I recently completed an article on this subject, presenting a bit more background a details. It can be found here:
http://larouchepac.com/node/22615