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Analyst: U.S. Satellite Strike Was Justifiable; Critics Such As China, Russia, Are Off-Base

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Monday, February 25th, 2008

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China Is The Last To Carp About U.S. Anti-Satellite Operation, Analyst Says Pentagon Today Announces ASAT Shot Succeeded In Destroying Hydrazine Fuel Tank A coming wave of criticism -- assailing the United States for demolishing a dangerous, out-of-control satellite -- is unfounded and unfair, a military analyst stated. The analyst, Baker Spring, is a research fellow with the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. His monograph was published…

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