John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski examines what to make of U.S. Congressional Budget Office Golden Dome cost being nearly an order of magnitude larger than the original $175 billion estimate, what strategic choices the estimate suggests we need to make, and how well it might protect against locally lofted drone strikes against U.S. homeland targets.

May 16, 2026

John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski examines what to make of U.S. Congressional Budget Office Golden Dome cost being nearly an order of magnitude larger than the original $175 billion estimate, what strategic choices the estimate suggests we need to make, and how well it might protect against locally lofted drone strikes against U.S. homeland targets.

John Batchelor-NPEC review examines what to make of U.S. Congressional Budget Office Golden Dome cost being nearly an order of magnitude larger than the original $175 billion estimate, what strategic choices the estimate suggests we need to make, and how well it might protect against locally lofted drone strikes against U.S. homeland targets.

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