Originally published on the CGS blog on September 30, 2007.
Check out Jack Hitt’s Rolling Stone article, “The Shield,” and the interactive demonstration of how the Star Wars shield works. Here’s the lede:
The Shield Star Wars began as a Reagan-era fantasy. Under Bush, it is now the most expensive weapons system in the history of man. It has never been successfully tested. It will never be finished. And it is completely unnecessary.
An expensive, unsuccessful, interminable, unnescessary Reagan-era fantasy? Sounds like a winning public policy/national security decision to me!
