What was a conceptual cornerstone of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative is needed now in America more than ever in the face of rising threats from the Chinese Communist Party, a former Reagan administration official warns.
Michael Sekora, director of the once-classified Project Socrates, says the project was meant to find out what was making America weak—militarily and economically—and turn the tide around.
“When we founded Socrates, we had a twofold mission,” Michael Sekora told The Epoch Times in an interview in June. “Number one, determine the true underlying cause of U.S. economic and military decline; and number two, once we understood the underlying cause, develop the means to reverse the decline that would ensure America’s superpower status for generations.”…