As far as 2025 goes, Ignorance, I will bet you don't have a clue where that came from, who wrote it, or why.
The sites you got your info from...did they tell you? Did they just excerpt the good bits and toss it out there with the implication that it was some
sort of secret paper they'd dug up for you? That's what usually happens, because it's just not all that mysterious or conspiratorial if they
don't.
Before you get all hot and bothered, you should take a look at who wrote the paper, for whom, and for what reason.
2025 was written at Maxwell AFB by students at Air University, including a lot of AFROTC cadets. It was a "set of projected futures". It wasn't
some RAND analysis of current technology. It was a senior project.
But they never mention that, do they?
This and the appendix in Vol 4 Chapter 3 describing the "holographic projector" (btw, this idea came from a Hollywood producer they invited as a
speaker, not Sandia or something) are often cited but are always taken out of context.
Anyways, here is a URL for the website archives. It looks like they've messed around with the site and broken some of the links but if you use this
index page you can generally find anything. The links within the pages look like they're messed up, so you may have to return to the index to move
from page to page instead of using the links inside the pages themselves. Some work, some don't. You should read the preface material stem to stern,
there's a lot of it, to get a really good idea of the reasons that they wrote it. It doesn't describe on-going projects or "secret technology" -
they were trying to blue-sky what it might be like 30 years in the future. And no, I don't think they "revealed the true secret military
capability!!11!!" to the AFROTC cadets and new little LT's at tactics school.
csat.au.af.mil...
From the intro:
The Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Ronald R. Fogleman, tasked the Air University at Maxwell AFB, AL to look 30 years into
the future to identify the concepts, capabilities and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the
21st century. The Air University commander led a team of students and faculty from the Air University’s Air War College and Air Command and Staff
College; scientists and technologists from the Air Force Institute of Technology, located at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; Air Force Academy and AFROTC
cadets from around the country; and selected academic and business leaders in the civilian community across the nation in the 10-month effort to meet
General Fogleman’s tasking.
The resulting study is called Air Force 2025 or 2025 for short.
edit: formatting error
[edit on 22-4-2007 by Tom Bedlam]