Arthur you have a serious need to do some research as to the militarization of Low earth orbit and the commercialization of the same. If you think there is No national security value to maintaining a commanding presence in LEO then you have buried you head in the proverbial sand. Think of the following…Weather sats. Communication sats. Geoscience sats. Surface mapping…you think Google earth and all those sat images came from nowhere? I will not even bother with the REAL imagining stuff.