Regardless of the article, space superiority is the new air superiority in that if you don't have it, you only ever have permission from whomever does. Over sp

Regardless of the article, space superiority is the new air superiority in that if you don't have it, you only ever have permission from whomever does. Over space scale distances, the only meaningful sovereignty is the cryptographic integrity of your networks, which, as it turns out, can have 20min or greater RTT latency, so you also need a high degree of autonomy. There's also the small matter of the entire substrates of those networks being produced by fabs and on equipment controlled by a rival superpower. Post quantum algorithms and key distribution are going to literally define sovereignty in less than 30 years, and we haven't landed on one for standardization yet. I get that a lot of americans want to forfeit their governments role in the world, but I'd invite them to consider the alternatives. What bothers me is that we've seen supersonic missiles from both China and Russia in the last couple of months, and officially the multi trillion dollar US military is mystified by them, while some random guy on hackaday just built a supersonic trebuchet for two hundred dollars. Someone should call him and tell him his country needs him, because its military is too busy navel gazing to do its one job.