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Washington's Superiority Strategy

The U.S. strategy in space is based on total superiority both with regard the resources that Washington deploys as well as its capacity to ?neutralize? the space resources of both friend and foe. [...]

Published on 19.09.2003 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Peter Teets

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