The Military Industrial Complex Led President Reagan to Create Star Wars

ORLANDO, Fla. - July 8, 2013 - PRLog -- President Carter had already dropped the budget to the lowest it had been in over 25 years.

The US military budgets would certainly be decreased.  What could the Aerospace Giants do to continue our enriched lifestyles?

They reasoned that seeking funds for new weapons in a peace time or seeking funds to “patch” existing weapons would not result in the magnitude of budgets that they needed.

They put a study together that showed the merits of pursuing a leap frog to the current weapons technology and jumping into technology of the future.  

They started preaching such a strategy to the US military, to Congress, to NATO, to any agency that would listen, and to the President.

The pitch got honed until it began to make sense.

The Strategic Defense Initiative, later known as Star Wars, was about to be born.

They pitched the President on the possibilities of amazing new technology. Perhaps the key pitch that really convinced him in the merits of pursuing a leap frog to current technology was about how the workings of the brain of a tiny insect could be used to develop technology to control the battle field.

President Reagan was sold.

The military budgets ceased the Carter decline and began to rise.

The military industrial complex was working; the military budgets were saved.

President Reagan had absorbed and understood our “pitches” and proposed a new program: The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983.  

SDI was to replace the insane old strategic plan of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) that had been in place for many years.

The President’s proposal was accepted by the military and Congress and SDI was set up in the Pentagon in 1984.

The day after President Reagan’s announcement the Washington Post published a quote from Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy describing the proposal as "reckless Star Wars schemes."

The name stuck, Reagan’s Star Wars was born.

The researchers at UnknownTruths Publishing Company reconstructed the key events in the decades-long steps that lead to Star Wars.

Three factors forced the United States to create and develop new technology:

Hitler’s creation of the ICBM, the V2 intercontinental ballistic missile;
The United States development and use of the nuclear bomb;
Stalin making Communism work.

These findings and assessments were published in the book Reagan’s Star Wars which is available in eBook, Paperback and Audio Book formats at Amazon and where books are sold.

A video is available at YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFTss6GW1pI and at https://vimeo.com/63685343



The findings in the book are of great interest because they describe the step-by-step events including the build up and demise of Communism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, Kennedy’s I am a Berliner Speech and Reagan’s Tear Down this Wall Speech.  

Reviewing how our leaders handled these issues can make us better aware of how we should handle current issues including:

The current Iranian issue regarding their attempt to get the atomic bomb;
The Syrian issue that can destabilize the region;
The Egyptian issue of overthrowing the President;
The North Korean issue of threats and saber rattling, and
The extremely critical Pakistani issue involving a very unstable government that already possesses the atomic bomb.

These current issues are severe.  But perhaps an even more critical, and long range issue is that of accelerating cyber attacks.  All of these issues threaten our national security and how we address them must be thought out with great care.

Handling these issues will require advanced technology; Star Wars was just the beginning.

Understanding the events of the past, and how they were addressed, can help the public understand what needs to be done.  Public support is required perhaps more so than at any time in the recent past.  The events chronicled in Reagan’s Star Wars may help with the public’s needed understandings.