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To: isopatch who wrote (85631)	1/29/2001 10:21:38 PM
From: isopatch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 95453

OT/For Defense/China mavens. From the UK Telegraph. By Bill Fenton, in Washington "THE Pentagon has held its first war games in space and discovered that it could be vulnerable to a serious defeat, military planners said yesterday. The five-day exercise, aimed at finding out how to defend America's satellites and destroy those of a potential enemy, is thought to have had alarming results. Set in 2017, the deadly serious game - acted out in Colorado - involved two countries, codenamed Red and Blue, but obviously representing China and the United States. Maj Gen William Looney III, commander of US air force space operations, said: "We don't normally play space. The purpose of this game was to focus on how we really would act in space." The military has been reluctant to talk about the results of the war game, but it is believed both sides used "cyberattacks" - efforts to disable each other's mainframe computers. The "Chinese" side also tried a pre-emptive strike by buying up all the commercial satellites it could find, blocking a vital source of support that the Pentagon has come to rely on. Unexpected side-effects of the war game are thought to have included the new tactic of hijacking an opponent's satellites and using it to broadcast propaganda." telegraph.co.uk