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Meh. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home in Biggers Canyon, they're not much bigger than that satellite.

Anti-satellite weapons are very important to someone trying to disrupt a modern fighting force like the US forces, which are highly reliant on network centric warfare through GPS to coordinate its ground, air and sea power in any campaign.

China was the first nation to shoot down a satellite a few years ago, this of course spooked the US as it meant its GPS system could be taken out at will in a possible future naval conformation between China and Taiwan.

Since then the US has been itching to do the same, and now they did. AST weapons could mean a new cold war in space weaponization between super powers. In fact though many nations and members of the security council of the UN have signed countless treaties banning the weaponization of space, nothing was said about weapons designed to take out spy satellites or GPS satellites.

I expect the Star Wars program to resume soon as well.

Isn't it beggar's canyon?

^ yes.

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Really? Hmmm. I don't know.

I suppose they would have beggars on Tatooine, but why would they be hanging out with the womp rats in a canyon?

When Rumsfeld came in it was supposed to be all Star Wars, high tech stuff... and it's turned out to be the opposite. Low-tech politics and social networks and IED's. It's the geopolitics, stupid. Better to engage root causes than rely on the latest BFG.