Sep 11, 2019, 01:29pm
What Really Keeps Military Space Leaders Up At Night
Charles Beames
Watching the latest freshman class enter college this month, born after 9/11, should remind us all that an entire generation has now passed since Washington, D.C. and New York City were attacked. Every year, we memorialize the day with a moment of silence, thousands of American flags and an outpouring of national pride, grief and unity. The vicious attacks with little more than box cutters and four commercial jets would embroil us in a worldwide conflict, costing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. For those of us who worked as senior government officials at the time, September 11 was a strategic surprise, an entry etched at the bottom of a list that goes back to the earliest days of recorded history. With each strategic surprise on that list, a nation is roiled and world history takes an unanticipated turn. Forever afterwards, historians and statesmen debate the cause and impact of each of these events in the context of the present. Why did this happen? And perhaps more importantly, how could we have been so vulnerable?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesbeames/2019/09/11/what-really-keeps-military-space-leaders-up-at-night/#556682ac4778
