The U.S. military won the Cold War and the standoff in the Persian Gulf thanks to superior forces on the ground, in the air and at sea.
Many people feel the military has no business in space.
We may be faced with a Pearl Harbor in space. It was the worst failure in space communication history, and it offered a glimpse of what an intentional attack on a U.S. satellite might do. His space panel reports its findings today. In 1998, the Rumsfeld commission on missile defense warned that North Korea, Iraq and other rogue nations were much closer to deploying ballistic missiles than intelligence agencies had predicted. Its report persuaded a skeptical President Clinton to propose building land-based missile interceptors.