[Eepsy]

If I learned anything from reading Heinlein, I learned the importance of controlling the high ground....

[from occupied ga]

If I learned anything from reading Heinlein, I learned the importance of controlling the high ground....

Heinlein wrote FICTION. If you learned anything from him it should be how to write.

[jagusafr]

That, and “an armed society is a polite society”.

[PastorBooks]

You’re right, and I’ll bet that is why he wants it. There are long-term considerations.

[Moonman62]

If I learned anything from reading Heinlein, I learned the importance of controlling the high ground....

Unless the high ground is too far away. A suborbital spacecraft (Reagan's Orient Express) would be much more valuable to the United States than a Moon base, or a space station.