Patrick McLanahan Collection #1 (174 page)

AMERICANS:

J
OSEPH
G
ARDNER
, President of the United States

K
EN
T. P
HOENIX
, Vice President

C
ONRAD
F. C
ARLYLE
, President's National Security Adviser

M
ILLER
H. T
URNER
, Secretary of Defense

G
ERALD
V
ISTA
, Director of National Intelligence

W
ALTER
K
ORDUS
, White House Chief of Staff

S
TACY
A
NNE
B
ARBEAU
, senior U.S. senator from Louisiana, Senate majority leader; Colleen Morna, her aide

G
ENERAL
T
AYLOR
J. B
AIN
, USMC, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

G
ENERAL
C
HARLES
A. H
UFFMAN
, Air Force chief of staff

A
IR
F
ORCE
G
ENERAL
B
RADFORD
C
ANNON
, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM)

A
RMY
G
ENERAL
K
ENNETH
L
EPERS
, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

M
AJOR
G
ENERAL
H
AROLD
B
ACKMAN
, commander of the Fourteenth Air Force; also commander of Joint Functional Component Command-Space (JFCC-S) of U.S. Strategic Command

L
IEUTENANT
G
ENERAL
P
ATRICK
M
C
L
ANAHAN
, commander of the High-Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC), Elliott AFB, Nevada

B
RIGADIER
G
ENERAL
D
AVID
L
UGER
, deputy commander of HAWC

C
OLONEL
M
ARTIN
T
EHAMA
, incoming commander of HAWC

M
AJOR
G
ENERAL
R
EBECCA
F
URNESS
, commander of the First Air Battle Force (air operations), Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base (ARB), Nevada

B
RIGADIER
G
ENERAL
D
AREN
M
ACE
, Air Battle Force operations officer, 111th Bomb Wing commander, and EB-1C mission commander

M
AJOR
W
AYNE
M
ACOMBER
, deputy commander (ground operations) of the First Air Battle Force, Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base, Nevada

M
ARINE
C
ORPS
M
ASTER
S
ERGEANT
C
HRIS
W
OHL
, NCOIC, First Air Battle Force

U.S. A
RMY
N
ATIONAL
G
UARD
C
APTAIN
C
HARLIE
T
URLOCK
, CID pilot

C
APTAIN
Hunter “Boomer” N
OBLE
, XR-A9 Black Stallion spacecraft commander, Elliott Air Force Base, Groom Lake

U.S. N
AVY
L
IEUTENANT
C
OMMANDER
L
ISETTE
“F
RENCHY
” M
OULAIN
, XR-A9 spacecraft commander

U.S. M
ARINE
C
ORPS
M
AJOR
J
IM
T
ERRANOVA
, XR-A9 mission commander

A
NN
P
AGE
, P
H
.D., former U.S. senator, astronaut, and space weapon engineer

A
IR
F
ORCE
M
ASTER
S
ERGEANT
V
ALERIE
“S
EEKER
” L
UKAS
, Armstrong Space Station sensor operator

IRANIANS:

G
ENERAL
H
ESARAK AL
-K
AN
B
UZHAZI
, leader of the Persian military coup

A
ZAR
A
SSIYEH
Q
AGEV
, heir presumptive of the Peacock Throne of Persia

L
IEUTENANT
C
OLONEL
P
ARVIZ
N
AJAR AND
M
AJOR
M
ARA
S
AIDI
, Azar Qagev's aides-de-camp

C
OLONEL
M
OSTAFA
R
AHMATI
, commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, Tehran-Mehrabad Airport

M
AJOR
Q
OLOM
H
ADDAD
, leader of Buzhazi's personal security team

M
ASOUD
N
OSHAHR
, Lord High Chancellor of the Qagev royal court and marshal of the court's council of war

A
YATOLLAH
H
ASSAN
M
OHTAZ
, supreme leader in exile of the Islamic Republic of Iran

RUSSIANS:

L
EONID
Z
EVITIN
, president of the Russian Federation

P
ETER
O
RLEV
, president's chief of staff

A
LEXANDRA
H
EDROV
, minister of foreign affairs

I
GOR
T
RUZNYEV
, chief of the Federal Security Bureau

A
NATOLI
V
LASOV
, secretary of the Russian security council

M
IKHAIL
O
STENKOV
, minister of national defense

G
ENERAL
K
UZMA
F
URZYENKO
, Russian chief of the general staff

G
ENERAL
N
IKOLAI
O
STANKO
, chief of staff of the Russian army

G
ENERAL
A
NDREI
D
ARZOV
, chief of staff of the Russian air force

W
OLFGANG
Z
YPRIES
, German laser engineer working with the Russian air force

9K89
—small Russian surface-to-surface missile

ARB
—Air Reserve Base

ATO
—air tasking order

BDU-58 Meteor
—precision-guided vehicle designed to protect payloads from the heat of re-entry through the atmosphere; can carry approximately 4,000 pounds

CIC
—Combat Information Center

coonass
—a person of Cajun ethnicity

E-4B
—National Airborne Operations Center

E-6B Mercury
—U.S. Navy airborne communications and command post aircraft

EB-1D
—B-1 Lancer bomber modified as an unmanned long-range supersonic attack plane

ETE
—estimated time en route

FAA Part 91
—regulations governing private pilots and aircraft

FSB
—Russian Federal Security Bureau, follow-on to the KGB

HAWC
—High-Technology Aerospace Weapons Center

ICD
—implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Ilyushin
—Russian inflight refueling tanker aircraft

MiG
—Mikoyan-Gureyvich, Russian military aircraft maker

OSO
—offensive systems officer

RQ-4 Global Hawk
—high-altitude long-range unmanned reconnaissance aircraft

SAR
—synthetic aperture radar; also search and rescue

Skybolt
—space-based anti-ballistic missile laser

SPEAR
—Self-Protection Electronically Agile Reaction network intrusion defense system

sun-synchronous
—an Earth orbit on which a satellite passes over the same spot at the same time of day

Tupolev
—twin-engine Russian jet bomber

USAFE
—U.S. Air Forces in Europe

VFR
—Visual Flight Rules

Vomit Comet
—aircraft used to fly parabolic flights to simulate weightlessness

XAGM-279A SkySTREAK
(Scramjet Tactical Rapid Employment Attack, or “Streaker”)—air-launched hypersonic attack missile, 4,000 pounds, 12 feet long, 24 inches in diameter; uses a solid rocket motor to boost the missile to Mach 3, then switches to a JP-7 jet fuel and compressed atmospheric oxygen scramjet to cruise at Mach 10; inertial and precision GPS navigation; satellite datalink operator mid-course reprogramming; ballistic flight profile max range 600 miles; after accelerating to Mach 10, releases precision-guided war
head with millimeter-wave radar and imaging infrared terminal guidance with auto-target discrimination or satellite datalink remote operator target selection; no warhead; two can be carried aboard EB-1C Vampire bomber in aft bomb bay; four carried internally or four externally by EB-52 Megafortress; four carried internally by B-2 stealth bomber

XR-A9
—single-stage to orbit “Black Stallion” spaceplane

STRATFOR M
ORNING
I
NTELLIGENCE
B
RIEF
, 18 J
ANUARY
2007—1216 GMT—CHINA, UNITED STATES—U.S. intelligence agencies believe China destroyed the aging Feng Yun 1C polar orbit weather satellite in a successful anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons test Jan. 11,
China Daily
reported Jan. 18, citing an article to appear in the Jan. 22 issue of
Aviation Week & Space Technology
. U.S. intelligence agencies are still attempting to verify the ASAT test, which would signify that China has a major new military capability…

 

…The new cloud of debris orbiting the Earth is an indication of things to come should two space-faring nations face off in a conflict. Especially in the case of the United States, space-based assets have become too essential an operational tool to be ignored any longer in times of war.

 

STRATFOR D
AILY
I
NTELLIGENCE
S
UMMARY
, 3 A
PRIL
2007—U.S./IRAN: U.S. attacks against Iran would not lead to a decisive military defeat of Tehran and would be a political mistake,
Russia's Chief of the General Staff Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky said. He added that it is possible for the United States to damage Iran's military, but not to win a conflict outright.

 

STRATFOR I
NTELLIGENCE
B
RIEF
, 7 S
EPTEMBER
2007—Cooperation between the Russian Federal Security Service and Iran's Interior Ministry will enhance Iran's border security, First Deputy Director-General of Russian Federal Security and Border Services Viktor Shlyakhtin said, according to an IRNA report. Shlyakhtin is in Iran to inspect Iranian-Russian projects in areas of Iran's Sistan-Balochistan province that border Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

RED OCTOBER: RUSSIA, IRAN, AND IRAQ—STRATFOR Geopolitical Intelligence Report, 17 September 2007—Copyright © Strategic Forecasting Inc.—…The Americans need the Russians not to provide fighter aircraft, modern command-and-control systems, or any of the other war-making systems that the Russians have been developing. Above all else, they want the Russians not to provide the Iranians any nuclear-linked technology.

 

Therefore, it is no accident that the Iranians claimed over the weekend that the Russians told them they would do precisely that.

 

…[Russian president Vladimir] Putin can align with the Iranians and place the United States in a far more complex situation than it otherwise would be in. He could achieve this by supporting Syria, arming militias in Lebanon, or even causing significant problems in Afghanistan, where Russia retains a degree of influence in the North…

 

STRATFOR I
NTELLIGENCE
S
UMMARY
, 25 O
CTOBER
2007, © S
TRATFOR
I
NC
.—During Russian President Vladimir Putin's Oct. 16
visit to Tehran, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asked him to order Russian experts to help Iran figure out how Israel jammed Syrian radars prior to the Sept. 6 air raid, a Stratfor source in Hezbollah said. Iran wants to rectify the problem associated with the failure of Syrian radars because Iran uses similar equipment, the source added.

 

RUSSIA, IRAN: THE NEXT STEP IN THE DIPLOMATIC TANGO—STRATFOR Global Intelligence Brief, 30 October 2007, © 2007 Stratfor, Inc.—…Russia has a fine-tuned strategy of exploiting its Middle Eastern allies' interests for its own political purposes. Iran is the perfect candidate. It is a powerful Islamic state that is locked into a showdown with the United States over its nuclear program and Iraq. Though Washington and Tehran are constantly battling in the public sphere with war rhetoric, they need to deal with each other for the sake of their strategic interests.

 

Russia, meanwhile, has its own turf war with the United States that involves a range of hot issues, including National Missile Defense, renegotiating Cold War–era treaties, and Western interference in Russia's periphery. By demonstrating that Moscow has some real sway over the Iranians, Russia gains a useful bargaining chip to use in its dealings with the United States…

 

ALTAY OPTICAL-LASER SOURCEBOOK, 28 December 2007—The Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instrument Engineering [of the Russian Federation] has established a branch satellite tracking facility called the Altay Optical-Laser Center (AOLS) near the small Siberian town of Savvushka. The center consists of two sites, one of which is now operational and the other of which is intended to go into operation in or after 2010.

 

The present site has a laser rangefinder for precision orbit determination, and, for the first time in Russia, a telescope (60 cm aperture)
there has been equipped with an adaptive optics system for high-resolution imaging of satellites. The second site will be equipped with a 3.12-meter satellite-imaging telescope generally similar to the one the United States operates in Hawaii.

 

…Successful implementation of the AOLS 3.12-meter system would allow satellites to be imaged with a resolution of 25 cm [9.8 inches] or better out to a range of 1,000 km [621 miles].