Such a deployment would principally involve an orbiting constellation of space-based, kinetic-kill interceptors utilizing technologies that are one or two generations more advanced than those found in the Patriot, but which have been either fully validated or are nearly ready for production decisions.

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The latter crisis is in a sense unseen, but painfully real nonetheless in that nosebleed spending has surely robbed present and future generations of a far more advanced economic present and future, cancer and heart disease cures, and the transportation innovations that would have been far more likely to reveal themselves were the political class not so eager to spend the money of others.

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