Early this month the U.S. guided-missile destroyer Stout arrived home after a mission in the Black Sea and visits to Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania. It also engaged in naval maneuvers with Israel and Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean in August. Regarding the Black Sea operation, a local American newspaper wrote, "This was the ship's first deployment with the ballistic missile defense system - a technology designed to track and destroy missiles that can travel more than 600 miles...." [27]
The extension of American global missile shield designs into the Middle East and Southeastern Europe is an integral part of global geostrategic plans which were summarized concisely and penetratingly by a Bangladeshi writer last November:
"The current NMD [National Missile Defense] project involves using radars in Alaska and California in the US and at Fylingdales in the UK, and in Greenland. The latest plan of deploying a radar base in the Czech Republic is basically relocating the existing radar base at the Kwajalein Atoll [in the] Marshall Islands. Besides, the US plans to install 10 more interceptors in silos in Poland.
"Even after 1991, [the U.S.] did not go for closing down its military bases scattered around the world, but rather continued expanding the network in many strategic positions.
"In Eastern Europe it basically filled the vacuum created by the end of the Warsaw Pact.
"Moreover, Central Asia, a very crucial passageway in the global oil supply chain, also came under the purview of US dominance. These deliberate moves created lots of irritation among regional powers like Russia and China.
"Surely the proposed radar base in the Czech Republic and missile interceptors in Poland are not to protect the US from Iran or North Korea's missiles but are to ensure the US plan to establish and exercise stringent control over the world using its prevailing 725 military bases." [28]
1) Agence France-Presse, August 27, 2009
2) United Press International, August 27, 2009
3) Reuters, August 20, 2009
4) Czech News Agency, August 20, 2009
5) Czech News Agency, September 11, 2009
6) Azeri Press Agency, August 28, 2009
7) Associated Press, September 2, 2009
8) Chosun Ilbo, September 3, 2009
9) National Security Presidential Directive and Homeland Security
Presidential Directive
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-66.htm
10) Wikipedia
11) Global Security, September 3, 2009
12) Trend News Agency, September 13, 2008
13) Defense News, September 27, 2008
14) Fox News, November 10, 2008
15) Tehran Times, October 14, 2008'
16) Press TV, December 7, 2008
17) Haaretz, January 10, 2009
18) Haaretz, November 27, 2008
19) Jerusalem Post, September 7, 2009
20) Ibid
21) Russian Information Agency Novosti, September 12, 2008
22) Turkish Daily News, March 12, 2008
23) Nezavisimaya Gazeta, May 14, 2008
24) Hurriyet, November 22, 2008
25) Strategic Culture Foundation, September 4, 2009
26) Ibid
27) Virginian-Pilot, September 5, 2009
28) Sultan Mohammed Zakaria, Global hegemony and the victims
Daily Star, November 1, 2008
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