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BEJING -- China will start building this year its own version of StarLink, a satellite internet constellation using low Earth orbit, with plans of launching some 26,000 satellites to cover the entire world led by state-run companies.Now that the military use of satellite-based communications systems for warfare in such places as Ukraine and Gaza is increasing, China will set up its own satellite network to compete with the U.S. as a "space power."

Thirty years ago Saigon fell. I was a company commander in the 2 nd Battalion, 508 th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82 nd Airborne Division. When our Vietnam veterans cursed the war, I remembered one of the greatest speeches I ever heard - the day the Vietnam peace was announced to my Winter Ranger class in ’73. The senior Ranger Sergeant cursed everything about the Vietnam War and everyone involved, friend or foe, in a poetic rant of imaginative, sincere, foul-mouthed hatred. He swore most passionately about the waste of his buddies’ lives. He blamed everyone and everything he knew to...

The Air Force Association 2005 Statement of Policy adopted by the delegates to the AFA National Convention meeting on Sept. 12, 2004, in Washington, D.C The Constitution of the United States of America gives great powers to the federal government. The first and most important responsibility of the government is to provide for the national defense. Since the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986, the President has been required to submit a National Security Strategy (NSS) to Congress annually. The NSS articulates the nation’s mid- and long-term national security strategy. The current NSS declares that the President should...

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Xynergy Hopes To Power Up The Planet With Solar Satellite Plant Beverly Hills - Mar 27, 2002 Xynergy Corporation said Tuesday that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Corporate Space Power Industries & Electric, Inc. ("CSPIE"). CSPIE has developed an innovative method of tapping solar power through space satellite laser transmission. Raquel Zepeda, CEO of Xynergy Corporation, commented, "We are very excited about working with CSPIE. As an energy provider, no doubt this company is literally soaring sky-high toward a most voracious and lucrative market." Collecting solar power 24 hours a day, these space satellites will...