1996 Air Force Study "Fictional Scenario"

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1996 Air Force Study \"Fictional Scenario\"

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On June 17, 1996, the U.S. Air Force released Air Force 2025, “a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future.” In the unclassified study, the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama posed several “fictional representations of future situations/scenarios” likely to arise.

In 2009, according to a figure in the Air Force 2025 report, influenza kills 30 million people.

In Chapter 5, the authors present a timeline figure representing “plausible history.” In 2009, according to the figure, influenza will kill 30 million people. “A similar influenza pandemic occurred in the past,” a footnote explains, making a reference to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919, described as “one of the worst human catastrophes on record. It has been estimated that more than 20 million people around the world died during the epidemic, and of the 20 million people who suffered from the illness in the United States, approximately 850,000 died.”

“The influenza virus is unique among viruses in being able to undergo so much antigenic change that an antigenically novel virus can sweep around the world in a year or two, giving rise to significant morbidity and mortality,” another footnote states.

It is interesting to note that the source of the Air Force’s fictional pandemic is described as unknown and it is not “determined if the virus was a natural mutation or bioengineered. Many feared the latter.”
 
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Re: 1996 Air Force Study \"Fictional Scenario\"

infopop. thanks for the link. That was the most interesting read I've had in a decade.

Not only is the comment about 30M dead from possible engineered flu in 2009 relevant, but also... terror attack in 2002 (ooops off a year)....recession in 2010 (oops off a year)....earthquake in Cali in 2004 making martial law (well we got Katrina in 2005, but I think martial law was foiled because gov'ment didn't account for highways being clogged with fallen pine trees). Reads like history, yet I had to keep going back to see that it was written in 1996.

I also found it interesting how the Airforce chief of staff who requested 5th scenerio decided to suddenly retire just about the time the study was completed. He went on to start his own consulting company where the motto is "honesty". Huh.

I also found it interesting how America World View variable for the chief of staff requested alternative reality was centerline, and while Bush years where extreme global view, Obama years are looking extreme domestic view... The balance point depicted in Halfs and Half-nots will be upon us shortly...might just take one more domestic issue to centerline it, as planned.

Overall though, seems like a playbook for world politics over past decade. I can track it clearly on the 3D grid supplied in preface. Very interesting, indeed. Thanks.
 
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