That, she knew, was about as far as the early astronauts regularly went a hundred years ago. Sally's three-month journey was nearly over in a few minutes they would dock in Low Earth Orbit - everybody called it LEO - and make the short trip down to Earth on a shuttle. At home, the sun was like a far-off orange, its light trapped in huge collecting mirrors. And now that Earth was getting closer, it looked better, especially with that big sun that kept rising and setting every 45 minutes. But now, she remembered, Mars was the other way, behind her, back toward her own "Pennsylvania" in the Fox Cluster group of colonies near Pluto. It was much more interesting than all that really old stuff about Earth that her mother was always trying to get her to look at. She liked images from the Greek Isle Colonies founded back in 2020, near Mars. 1, 2085, her 10th birthday, so at least she got to pick what scenes she wanted to see on the video screen. O'Neill as it throttled its ion-drive engines down from its 3 million-miles-per-hour cruising speed. You keep asking about these new worlds in space, and what it might be like for a child who's born there. Listening to his ideas about the future, you begin to get the feeling you're somewhere else. in History with Honors in Social Thought) and Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.).YOU'RE HAVING DINNER with physicist and space dreamer Gerard K. Pillsbury was educated at Stanford University (B.A. Pillsbury is the author of China Debates the Future Security Environment (NDU Press, 2000) and editor of Chinese Views of Future Warfare (NDU Press, 1998). Pillsbury is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Bush, Pillsbury was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, reporting to Andrew W. He also assisted in drafting the legislation to create the National Endowment for Democracy and the annual requirement for a DOD report on Chinese military power. As a staff member, Pillsbury drafted the Senate Labor Committee version of the legislation that enacted the US Institute of Peace in 1984. Pillsbury served on the staff of four U.S. policy during the Carter and Reagan administrations. The proposal, publicly commended by Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and James Schlesinger, later became U.S. In 1975-76, while an analyst at the RAND Corporation, Pillsbury published articles in Foreign Policy and International Security recommending that the United States establish intelligence and military ties with China.
During the Reagan administration, Pillsbury was Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning and responsible for implementation of the program of covert aid known as the Reagan Doctrine. Senior Fellow and Director for Chinese Strategy Michael Pillsbury is a distinguished defense policy adviser, former high-ranking government official, and author of numerous books and reports on China, including most recently The Hundred Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace the United States as a Global Superpower. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wake-up call as we face the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century. government has helped – sometimes unwittingly and sometimes deliberately – to make this “China Dream” come true, and he calls for the United States to implement a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders – as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the “hawks” in China’s military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. But what if the “China Dream” is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot?īased on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China’s secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
THE NEXT 100 YEAR SPACE WARFARE FREE
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China’s rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade.
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