DOES CHINA HAVE MILITARY AMBITIONS FOR THE MOON?

The idea was straightforward and simple from this magazine editor’s standpoint—parlay the buzz about China’s lunar ambitions into a conjectural story about the weapons and tactics of a lunar battle. But my “battle for the moon” scenario started to fall apart immediately­—mostly because the moon is of such little military utility.

Yeah, those “high ground” analogies don’t really take account of astrodynamics.