The SpaceX Dilemma: Can Commercial Dominance Become a National Security Risk?
“SpaceX certainly has the US government over the barrel.” — Clayton Swope, Centre for Strategic and International Studies In the classical realist framework, states are the primary actors in international relations - sovereign, rational, and ultimately self-reliant when it comes to security. What happens, then, when a state cedes its military infrastructure to a private corporation? This is the operational reality the United States confronts in 2026 as it struggles with an...
