The June decision date is a charade. It will take at least 19 tests to determine if the NMD is even feasible but only three will have been attempted by June. Star Wars II is clearly on the fast track. Five months later, the USAF launched the first NMD test from a base in California. Ultimately, you can see the Air Force deploying systems that can deny space capabilities to our enemies.
Every time there is an arms race, the arms industry wins.
Water, helium-3, and strategic minerals have been detected on the moon. Not all business in space is welcomed. That had to be stopped. US News fretted. Had the satellite not crashed into the Pacific Ocean, US News clearly implied, the DOD would have been impelled to shoot the company's satellite out of orbit.