1996 USAF report Weather as a Force Multiplier Owning the Weather in 2025
USAF OWNING THE WEATHER IN 2025 reveals the USAF as either Totally Inept Nitwits or else as complicit tools in assaults against USA citizenry and country. Weather modification via HAARP and NEXRAD combined with localized Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) are technologies not mentioned in the report that massively further the claimed capabilities.
“Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025” is a research paper presented to the U.S. Air Force in August 1996. The document explores the potential of leveraging emerging technologies for weather modification to achieve military objectives by the year 2025. It discusses how controlling weather patterns could provide strategic advantages, such as enhancing friendly operations or disrupting enemy activities through localized weather manipulation.
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The original source of this document is the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), where it is cataloged under the accession number ADA333462.
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The full document is publicly accessible and can be downloaded from the NTRL website. Additionally, it is available through other repositories and websites that archive government publications. For instance, a PDF version can be found on the Alachua County website.
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This document reflects the research and perspectives of its authors as of 1996 and may not represent current U.S. Air Force policies or capabilities. Most likely, the capability to “own” (and thus “control”) the weather is much further along in attainment than is being publicly revealed.
See Weather Modification International https://weathermodification.com and also North American Weather Consultants http://www.nawcinc.com/ for examples of for-hire weather modification.
Exploring the 1996 USAF Report: “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025”
In 1996, a group of researchers from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) presented a thought-provoking report titled “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025.” This document explored how advances in science and technology could enable the military to manipulate weather patterns for strategic advantage. While purely theoretical, the report outlined a vision for weather modification as a tool for achieving dominance on the battlefield. Below, we delve into the techniques described in the document, their potential applications, and the ethical questions they raise.
Overview of Weather Modification Concepts
The report begins by emphasizing the strategic importance of weather in military operations. From the mobility of troops to the reliability of aerial missions, weather impacts nearly every facet of military strategy. The authors envisioned a future where weather itself could be controlled to:
- Enhance friendly operations: For example, clearing fog or clouds to improve visibility for aerial missions.
- Degrade enemy capabilities: This might involve creating severe storms to disrupt supply chains or disable communication infrastructure.
The document proposed using weather modification as a “force multiplier” to provide a decisive edge in conflict.
Techniques Explored in the Report
The report described various methods for weather manipulation, grouped into categories based on their intended effects:
1. Precipitation Enhancement and Suppression
- Cloud Seeding: The introduction of chemical agents such as silver iodide into the atmosphere to encourage rain or snow formation.
- Rain Suppression: Reducing precipitation in a targeted area to create drought-like conditions.
2. Fog and Cloud Manipulation
- Dissipation of Fog: Techniques such as heating the atmosphere with lasers or chemicals to clear foggy conditions and improve visibility.
- Cloud Modification: Influencing cloud cover to either block enemy satellite surveillance or enhance solar heating for strategic advantage.
3. Storm Modification
- Hurricane Steering: Altering a storm’s trajectory using advanced technologies to redirect it away from friendly areas or toward enemy zones.
- Thunderstorm Control: Reducing the intensity of storms to protect critical infrastructure or intensifying them to disrupt enemy activities.
4. Ionospheric Manipulation
- Techniques to modify the ionosphere—a critical layer of Earth’s atmosphere for communications and radar—using high-powered radio frequencies to disrupt enemy communications or improve allied operations.
5. Artificial Weather Generation
- Creating localized weather phenomena, such as artificial clouds or lightning storms, to confuse or damage enemy forces.
Potential Applications
The military applications of weather modification, as envisioned in the report, were wide-ranging:
- Operational Support: Clearing skies for aerial reconnaissance or satellite imaging.
- Logistical Disruption: Inducing heavy rains to flood supply routes or halt troop movements.
- Psychological Operations: Using dramatic weather changes to demoralize enemy forces or civilians.
- Force Protection: Mitigating the effects of natural disasters in areas of strategic importance.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations
While the report painted an ambitious picture of weather control, it also acknowledged significant challenges:
- Technological Feasibility: Many of the proposed methods would require breakthroughs in meteorological science and engineering.
- Unintended Consequences: Modifying weather in one region could have unpredictable effects on neighboring areas, potentially causing harm to civilians.
- Legal and Ethical Implications: Weather modification for military purposes could violate international treaties, such as the 1978 Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), which prohibits hostile environmental manipulation.
- Moral Concerns: Using weather as a weapon raises profound ethical questions about the responsible use of technology.
Current Relevance
Although the “Owning the Weather in 2025” report was a speculative exercise, it remains a fascinating glimpse into the potential intersections of technology and warfare. Some of the concepts discussed—such as cloud seeding—are already in use for civilian purposes like drought mitigation. However, there is no evidence to suggest that weather modification has been developed or deployed as a military tool on the scale envisioned in the report.
The document’s vision serves as a cautionary tale, highlighting both the promise and peril of advanced technologies. As humanity’s understanding of the atmosphere continues to grow, questions about the ethical boundaries of weather manipulation will likely remain at the forefront of scientific and military discourse.
Accessing the Original Document
The original “Owning the Weather in 2025” report is publicly available through the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) and other government repositories. It is cataloged under the accession number ADA333462 and can be downloaded from:
For those interested in the intersection of science, technology, and warfare, the document remains a valuable resource for understanding both the possibilities and the limitations of weather modification.
In 2025, US aerospace forces can ‘own the weather’ by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map. A high risk, high reward endeavor, weather modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather modification offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. Some of the potential capabilities a weather modification system could provide to a war fighting commander in chief (CINC) are listed in table 1. Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather modification capability: (1) advanced nonlinear modeling techniques, (2) computational capability, (3) information gathering and transmission, (4) a global sensor array, and (5) weather intervention techniques. Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future.
LOL Amusingly, the document is not readily downloable from its official “source”.
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