Defense

As President, Harry Braun will continue to maintain America 's military superiority, but he will stop the production of any new weapons of mass-destruction, and the existing inventory of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons will be destroyed, provided that other countries agree to do likewise. Conventional weapons are far more appropriate to successfully resolve any military conflict, and few Americans are aware of just how formidable America 's conventional military assets are. For example, the U.S. has 10 Supercarrier naval task forces, and the rest of the world has none. The U.S. has more tanks, aircraft, space weapons systems and intelligence gathering services than the rest of the world combined. And wait until you see the next generation of robotized combat vehicles that are now on the drawing board. But the war Vietnam provided an insightful and important lesson about the limits of military power, and that even primitive people have pride and will fight against impossible odds to defend their country against foreign invaders. Unfortunately, this lesson was not learned by the Bush administration, and lessons that are not learned must be repeated, in this case in Iraq . It is unfortunate for all of the innocent people killed that Bush was a wealthy party boy in college, and not a student of history.

As President, Harry Braun will issue a new directive to U.S. armed forces that will involve protecting the American people by defending Spaceship Earth's biological life support systems. Given that over 90%of the global ocean ecosystems are already dead, the U.S. Navy and Air Force will be given the responsibility to protect the remaining 10% from the vast fleet of several million unregulated fishing vessels that are hunting the oceans into extinction. Until such time as the Windship and OTEC systems can be deployed on a scale to provide a permanent sanctuary for the fish and other marine organisms, only the U.S. Navy and Air Force have the capability to protect the remaining ocean ecosystems. The Navy is already evaluating OTEC systems as ideal sea-based facilities that could fuel and feed the fleet. The Army and Marines will also have an equally important role to play in defending what remains of America 's old growth forests and wilderness areas, as well as the borders of the U.S. The Braun administration will also end Bush's privatization efforts that result in taxpayers paying corporate security policeman $1,200 a day on no-bid cost-plus contracts.