Mar 5, 2025
Hopefully, the responses to President Trump’s Jan. 27, 2025 order to establish an Iron Dome for America will properly and fully employ a more realistic evaluation of both near-term and far-term space-based defenses.
Feb 21, 2025
Since we withdrew from the ABM Treaty and all basing concepts are now permitted, that space-based defense concept should be revived and developed with today’s much more advanced technology.
Feb 11, 2025
We need the much more effective, globally capable, missile defenses that can quite affordably be deployed in space!
Jan 31, 2025
Now is the time to return to the future! The naysayers still abound as illustrated by several recent press reports, including by individuals who ought to know better.
Dec 10, 2024
In his first term, President Trump launched the US Space Force, but, alas, to my knowledge it has not included developing a space-based intercept capability. Nor has it included an air-based defense capability like Raptor Talon of the SDI era.
Oct 23, 2024
The world is less safe now than at any time in history, but technology has also rocketed ahead with the ability to deploy on-demand and maintain space-based missile defenses, at far lower cost than today’s regional and far less effective ground-based missile defenses.
Oct 9, 2024
Today’s technology should enable much more capable systems. Regrettably, those efforts were annulled for political reasons three decades ago. I fear that Space Command is continuing to abide by that political restraint.
Sep 9, 2024
It's critically important we turn to relying on the private sector for rapidly advancing technology, rather than totally relying on significantly more lethargic government development efforts.