Early in President Trump’s first term, Retired USAF Lt. General Jim Abrahamson joined this writer in urging a revival of America’s space-based defense initiatives.
As the two surviving directors of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), we knew the possibility of truly effective space-based defense had been positively evaluated and to some extent demonstrated during our watch.
President Trump had indicated he intended to increase funding for developing and deploying our ballistic missile defense (BMD).
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