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What do you want from DoD space projects? This includes USAF, AFRL, NORAD. Also, international mil.space cooperation and international issues.<br /><br />Further enhancement of GPS is obvious, plus other military communication and intel satellites. My one 21st Century critique is services interoperability, which is inherently space-based (comm, etc). AFRL has done some research on advanced launch and propulsion - quite innovative. What about suborbital "dropships" for the Marines? Or Rods from God? What level of weapons do you consider allowable in space? Air Force space fighters? Should they assume space security duties in the deeper future, or will or Corporate Overlords handle that internally? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Personally I think post-boost phase (esp. kinetic kill) missile defense is a fool's errand, while theater missile defense is where all our effort should be. If we're scared about North Korea, put theater-level defenses around the peninsula. That allows for surgical denial of NK launch and IRBM assets. Political effort has kept the US and Russia/CCCP at nuclear stand-off for generations, it works well and should be extended to other nuclear nations. <br /><br />Another point on global BMD is that it can be used to suppress peaceful space launch, whether by accident or policy. Is this a capability We, the People, want any government to possess? <br /><br />What new avenues would you like to see pursued in military space? What would you like to see done away with? What projects would you like to see expanded?<br /><br />Josh <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div align="center"><em>We need a first generation of pioneers.</em><br /></div> </div>