By William Astore, Published by Antiwar.com, 20 November 2025 Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. American exceptionalism and megalomania, combined with threat inflation, creates a toxic brew that drives trillion-dollar war budgets and global violence. I was reminded of this as I reread a review I wrote in 2009 about
GPS 3F satellite artist rendition. Credit: Lockheed Martin By Courtney Albon, Published by Air and Space Forces, 5 November 2025 The Pentagon should establish a dedicated budget to support its Golden Dome missile defense shield’s positioning, navigation, and timing needs and assign a PNT lead to coordinate needed improvements to
Astranis is developing a geostationary commercial satellite called Omega that is being pitched to the U.S. military for broadband communications. Credit: Astranis By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 30 October 2025 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The U.S. Space Force is adopting a business model where the government owns satellites
U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile defence system could take decades to build and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) By Christian Davenport, William Neff and Aaron Steckelberg, Published by The Washington Post, 29 October 2025 Since ordering the Pentagon in January to erecta
An illustration of the Golden Dome. Credit: Arcfield By John T. Seward, Published by The Washington Times, 28 October 2025 The head of President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense program gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that described the secretive architecture of the project,
Northrop Grumman's concept art for the Evolved Strategic SATCOM program. (Northrop Grumman) By Courtney Albon, Published by Air and Space Forces, 23 October 2025 The Space Force expects to award $905 million in contracts over the next five years through a new Maneuverable GEO program, which aims to form a
On the left is a non-Earth satellite image of TRACERS-2, a spacecraft that is part of a NASA mission to study how the Sun's energy interacts with Earth's magnetic field, collected in August 2025. Intelligence about the spacecraft’s orientation and velocity helps analysts understand how the object is behaving. Credit:
Illustration of a Vantor satellite capable of Earth and space imaging. Courtesy Vantor By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 22 October 2025 Space Force signs selects Vantor to watch for naughty satellites, space threats. Satellite imaging company Vantor—formerly Maxar Intelligence—has signed a contract with the U.S. Space Force to
