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Space capabilities provide reconnaissance, surveillance, communications, weather and navigation. They greatly augment our warning and intelligence capabilities. If we fail to deter war, space systems will improve our ability to deliver weapons, and to assess damage.

— Bernard Schriever Speech at the USAFA Military Space Doctrine Symposium (1981)

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