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Reddit mentions of The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
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Not your question, but in one book I read, the Japanese used a base on the dark side of the moon to launch anti-satellite projectiles. I guess it might be more accurate to say anti-space-station, because the target was a very large manned station.
For asteroid defense, your concept would make sense, but just like my fictional reference, the projectile would need small rockets and telemetry (for course correction). You can't just fire a gun and hit something. If you had an advanced "maglev" system, that could be viable, but I picture early space guns as something that would crush any functional equipment in the projectile.
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And yes, the US has a ton of unfair advantages for companies now, including an amazing logistics infrastructure. If you are interested in learning more about this, I highly recommend "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century"
I can also make a book recommendation. Check out The Next 100 Years. Might be up your valley.
> Friedman predicts that the United States will remain the dominant global superpower throughout the 21st century, and that the history of the 21st century will consist mainly of attempts by other world powers to challenge American dominance. Although mainly about the geopolitics and wars of the century, the book also makes some economic, social, and technological predictions for the 21st century.
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> Friedman claims that around the year 2050 a Third World War will take place, between the United States, the "Polish Bloc," Britain, India, and China on one side, and Turkey and Japan on the other, with Germany and France entering the war in its late stages on the side of Turkey and Japan. The war will probably be started by a coordinated Turkish-Japanese sneak attack against the United States and its allies. In the book, Friedman predicts that the attack will take place at a time in which the Americans will be taken completely off guard, and hypothesizes 5:00 p.m. on November 24, 2050 (Thanksgiving Day) as a potential time.[1]
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> In 2015, Stratfor published a decade forecast for 2015-2025, which revised the predictions made in the book on Russia and China. Rather than the Russian government completely collapsing, it envisioned that the Russian government would lose much of its power, and the country would gradually fragment into a series of semi-autonomous regions. In addition, while the book had postulated that Chinese fragmentation was more likely than the re-imposition of authoritarian rule, the analysis predicted that regional fragmentation was now a less-likely scenario for China, with the most probable result being the re-imposition of strict authoritarian rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_100_Years:_A_Forecast_for_the_21st_Century
However to some large extent, I agree with one of the critics, but that's just me. Personally I don't agree with some of his predictions but I thought you may enjoy it.
>The San Francisco Chronicle criticized the book's US-centrism and military emphasis: "Friedman's strangely provincial stance resembles some frightened insomniac who can't stop playing Age of Empires because he desperately needs to win before dawn."