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Appendix A: Scenarios
Appendix A: Scenarios
Pages 149-156
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reception of ISR signals and imagery. Although our naval forces could surely inflict similar disruptions on an adversary's space systems, the impact of potential loss of significant access by friendly forces, including those of the United States, is not diminished.
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Further, to the best of the committee's knowledge, the combined impact of substantial GPS jamming from multiple sources against naval forces has not been well characterized but is expected to be significant. Electronic jamming of communications satellites by interfering with received communications signals at either the relaying satellites or at the airborne or surface vehicles themselves can also be highly effective, depending on the antijam protection level of the communications networks.
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. Comms ISR GPS Uplink Jammed X Kinetic Attack GPS Jammed, Downlink Comms Dazzling Jammed X High Power Ground Jammer GPS Jammer Mobile ISR Ground Jammed Jammer Airborne ISR & Comms Jammer Airborne LOS Range Sea Surface Surface Jammer LOS Range Airborne LOS Range FIGURE A-1 Space access scenario.
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assets most vulnerable and/or closest to the jamming sources are disabled immediately, and our naval forces have only limited access to situation awareness data from the front. Further, reception of command direction from the Missions Operations Center is denied except for those forces with priority antijam circuits and systems.
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With its comparatively large disposable incomes, generous bribes, ruthless actions, false promises, and cunning nature, FFP initiated the final stages of its campaign, to replace the country's government and to expel all foreign law enforcement and military personnel. The FFP's main job was to clear the area and keep the USCG Gallatin (WHEC 721)
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consul early the next morning after a clandestine night raid by the SEALs from the USS New York cut the anchor lines to several of the blocking vessels. The circling surface craft flowed through the breach, landed on the beach, and discharged troops, who made their way rapidly
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The Fukushima Daiichi power plant suffered damage to nuclear fuel, the reactor pressure vessels, and the primary containment vessels of multiple reactors. There was also a large release of radioactivity, about one-sixth of that associated with Chernobyl.2 For reference, the Fukushima Daiichi power plant was designed to withstand an 8.2 earthquake and a 5.7 meter tsunami.3 The report of independent assessment of the events associated with the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident is now public.4 The key finding from this independent report is that the accident was "a profoundly manmade disaster -- 1 According to James Mori of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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."6 Clearly, a combination of conflicts of interest and inattention to contingency planning and safety procedures significantly contributed to the incident. Although heroism and public cooperation were much extolled at the time, the lack of material, contingencies, and C2 capability were later identified as contributing to the scale of the disaster -- in particular, to the nuclear meltdown.7 Several key lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident include the following: • TEPCO was too quick to cite the tsunami as the cause of the nuclear accident and to deny that the earthquake had caused any damage.
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