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But the Pentagon report also found that nonnuclear conventional weapons were becoming an increasingly important element of the military's arsenal, to be used in what planners call long-range global strikes.

As part of a weapons modernisation strategy personally directed by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon is drawing up plans for a 'sub-orbital vehicle' launched like a spacecraft, which Rumsfeld describes as 'valuable for conducting rapid global strikes'.

As part of its program to modernize the military, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld directed the Pentagon last month to look into "sub-orbital space vehicles" that "would be valuable for conducting rapid global strikes," according to a planning document issued under his name.

He headed the U.S. Strategic Air Command from 1948 to 1957 and built it into a global strike force.

"Four simple words describe our mission: global strike, precision engagement," Brig.

Only once has it been linked to a global strike – a plan to bomb Times Square.

Yet as global strike contingency planning has moved forward, so has the nuclear option.

The March 15 global strike reportedly involves more than 100 countries and over 1,600 separate events.

The Air Force's global strike concept was taken over by Stratcom and made into something new.

The goal of the project is to enable the military to carry out what it calls a "prompt global strike".

Prompt global strike, or PGS, would deliver a precision-guided conventional weapon anywhere in the world within an hour.