Hypothesis on alien life gains heft

Recently, Professor Paul Springer of the U.S. Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama was a guest on an Australian talk show titled "U.S. Military Making Plans for an Alien Invasion." Springer, a former professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who has a doctorate in military history from Texas A&M University, said his superiors had authorized him to discuss Pentagon plans to counter an alien invasion.

During the interview, Springer was asked, "What do you think would be the alien plan? What would they do first?" He replied: "That really depends on why they are here in the first place. If they are here for extraction of a specific resource, for example, they might just want to eliminate any resistance that might block them from their objective. If, on the other hand, their goal was actual occupation and conquest, then they would probably have to prioritize anything they perceived as a threat to their own dominance. So they would probably start by wiping out as many communications networks as possible and eliminating as many weapons that might represent some form of threat whether to them or to the resources they are trying to extract. So they might very well want to counter every nuclear weapon, not because it represented a threat to them but because it might destroy whatever they're here to collect."