William B. Scott for a discussion about possible World War III scenarios
and the latest in military technology. He described one possible
scenario in which North Korea launches a missile to knock out space
satellites. This could also involve an electromagnetic pulse that
damages circuitry on the ground, greatly affecting Americans ability to
use ATM and credit cards. Such an attack is "like pouring molasses on
society-- everything slows down," he said.
Continuing the
scenario, Iran could take advantage of America's satellite loss by
launching a nuclear-tipped missile at Israel, and terrorist cells could
"spoof" GPS signals to cause airline crashes, he detailed. While no one
wants to take the U.S. on in a conventional war, the country is
vulnerable to space and cyberspace attacks, and has a lack of policy and
infrastructure in dealing with such "asymmetric warfare," he warned.
Scott
outlined a number of military technologies that could covertly exist,
or are not widely known, including: Blackstar Spaceplane-- A small
manned craft carried into high altitude by a larger plane, it could make
surprise suborbital journeys around the globe for surveillance or
military purposes, as well as possibly launch nano-satellites.
Black
Triangles-- Seen by numerous witnesses, these could be military blimps
with a hard surface-- a structure that can sit on the ground but contain
lighter-than-air gas. These stealthy ships could carry large payloads.
Hyper Velocity Missiles-- These so-called "Rods from the Gods," are 6
ft. long rods made out of titanium which if fired from a high altitude
would acquire so much kinetic energy they could do as much damage as
explosive warheads.
Wikipedia
World War III (WWIII or the
Third World War) is a hypothetical conflict that denotes a successor to
World War II (1939--1945). The conflict would be on a global scale, with
common speculation that it would probably be a nuclear war and
devastating in nature.
In the wake of World War I, World War II,
the commencement of the Cold War and the development, testing and use of
nuclear weapons, there was early widespread speculation as to the next
global war. This war was anticipated and planned for by military and
civil authorities, and explored in fiction in many countries. Concepts
ranged from the limited use of atomic weapons, to the destruction of the
planet.
Other historic conflicts as World War III
Norman
Podhoretz has suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War
III because it was fought, although by proxy, on a global scale, with
the main combatants, the United States and later NATO, and the Soviet
Union and Warsaw Pact countries providing political, military and
economic support while not engaging in direct combat.
Eliot
Cohen, the director of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, declared in
The Wall Street Journal, a month after the September 11 attacks, that
the struggle against terrorism was more than a law-enforcement
operation, and would require military conflict beyond the invasion of
Afghanistan. Cohen, like Marenches, considered World War III to be
history. "A less palatable but more accurate name is World War IV," he
wrote. "The Cold War was World War III, which reminds us that not all
global conflicts entail the movement of multi-million-man armies, or
conventional front lines on a map." In a 2006 interview, U.S. President
George W. Bush labeled the ongoing War on Terror as "World War III"
On
the July 5, 2011 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson
interviewed Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute (AEI), and said "some are calling the global war on terror
something else, something more like World War III." But Ledeen responded
that "it's more like World War IV because there was a Cold War, which
was certainly a world war." Ledeen added that "probably the start of it
[World War IV] was the Iranian revolution of 1979." Similarly, on the
May 24, 2011 edition of CNBC's Kudlow and Company, host Lawrence Kudlow,
discussing a book by former deputy Under-Secretary of Defense Jed
Babbin, said "World War IV is the terror war, and war with China would
be World War V.
