Argues that while most around the world are concerned with China's rise to supremacy, the real issue may be the fall of the populous nation due to overextending its military and economic designs.

"This book is intended to answer the question, "How did we get the Space Force?" The Air Staff assigned the book with that purpose statement given to the author. Rather than a technically-focused work emphasizing satellites, spacecraft, and strategies for the new domain, the resulting work is narrative in nature, following the legislative-administrative history as it pertained to space during the last quarter century leading to the creation of the...