https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/if-the-space-force-won-t-fight-aliens-who-the-hell-wil-1833079619
Late last week, military news site Task & Purpose confirmed a disturbing fact:
the newly created U.S. Space Force has no intention of fighting aliens. Despite
the recent uptick of military UFO sightings, the Pentagon appears uninterested
(at least officially) in the possibility of hostile aliens. But if an alien
invasion does take place, which arm of the Pentagon would respond? The answer:
probably all of them.
revelation last year that U.S. Navy fighter jets encountered alleged UFO craft
If the unidentified flying objects described by Navy pilots, as well as military
and civilian personnel for the past seventy years, are really of
extraterrestrial origin and unfriendly, how would the Pentagon deal with them?
https://youtu.be/3RlbqOl_4NA
If UFOs suddenly descended from the skies, toasting the Statue of Liberty, the
Great Mall of America, and the Golden Gate Bridge with death rays, the Pentagon
would need to convene some sort of study group to quickly determine what kind of
threat it was dealing with. If that happens, forget the Air Force.
Ironically, the service that would most likely take the lead is the U.S. Navy.
Why the Navy? Aliens would likely come from vast distances, traveling light
years in long distance voyages, to smash puny humans. The U.S. Navy is unique
among the services in planning similar, though much, much shorter voyages. Both
on the outside, while in space the pressure is on the inside of the vehicle.
From an operational and technical standpoint, aliens and sailors have a few
things in common.
There are other reasons the Navy might take the lead. Seventy-one percent of the
(remember, the 2004 sighting included reports of a 737-sized object on the
surface of the ocean) the Navy is unique in having manned aircraft, surface
ships, and submarines prowling above, on, and below the surface of the ocean.
establishing a military presence for weeks or months, to investigate and monitor
for enemy activity.
bombers could only remain on station for mere minutes or hours before returning
theoretically capable of traveling extraordinary distances in a blink of an
If humans could lure aliens into a set-piece battle the Air Force could bring a
meantime the Space Force, nestled under control of the Air Force, would
position, navigation, and timing/GPS satellites, communication satellites, and
other space-based assets.
The Army would be the service responsible if aliens attempted a landing in the
would spring into action, attempting to destroy the aliens with fire and
maneuver. It would be in many ways similar to countering an airborne landing,
flow of alien reinforcements. The Marines could also get in on the alien
one would like to think aliens would be smart enough to avoid that region and
the prospect of their own 18-year war altogether.
Of course, all of this is contingent on the U.S. military being on par with
alien technology... which, frankly, is extremely unlikely. The universe is
billions of years old, and other races could easily have a head start of a
million years or more on us. And certainly, any species capable of interstellar
flight is far more technologically advanced.
Consider that a handful of 21st century tanks could crush an army from the 11th
century, or even the 19th century for that matter. Even a difference of a
minor alien expedition/hunting trip/bachelor party.
If aliens do exist, ultimately it may not matter if they are hostile or not. Our
destruction at their hands would be about as inevitable as destruction from an
extinction-level meteor impact. They could even be friendly, the combination of
advanced, destructive technology and violent tendencies leading to intelligent
life self-screening itself from interstellar travel. (That would be bad news for
Pentagon has a plan to fight aliens after all.
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