Via Democracy Arsenal comes this priceless quote from a military hearing:
The Air Force believes “we must establish and maintain space superiority,” Gen. Lance Lord, who leads the Air Force Space Command, told Congress recently. “Simply put, it’s the American way of fighting.” Air Force doctrine defines space superiority as “freedom to attack as well as freedom from attack” in space.
No no no. That’s the Empire’s, or at the least, the Enterprise’s way of fighting. So unless America really does transubstantiate into our pop culture, there’s nothing Norman Rockwell about a moon bristling with Lockheed-Martin produced weaponry.
Update: Suzanne Nossel makes the great point that nobody, in fact, can attack us from space. Maybe this is some sort of aftershock from Ronald Reagan’s obsession with an alien invasion?
