Comments on: Those space-warmongering Canadians http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/04/17/those-space-warmongering-canadians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=those-space-warmongering-canadians Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Dwayne A. Day http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/04/17/those-space-warmongering-canadians/#comment-7703 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:26:19 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=938#comment-7703 This article is rather surprising because it is well-researched and coherent. Usually far-left groups fail badly when it comes to military space issues because they completely misunderstand the issues and tend to focus on trivial stuff that is not really important, like nuclear power or ASATs. They miss the forest for the trees, which has the effect of making them ineffectual.

A lot of this article, however, makes sense, and they stay away from the hyperventilated rhetoric that typifies this kind of reporting, although they do exaggerate the importance of the Canadian RADARSAT satellite to the U.S. military. Also, although they state that the U.S. military buys a lot of the data, they don’t provide any real numbers. The person who wrote this did a careful media search, but doesn’t have any direct knowledge of the subject.

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