John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski examines what to make of United States Congressional Budget Office’s 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 22, 2026

John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski examines what to make of United States Congressional Budget Office’s 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 weekly review examines what to make of United States Congressional Budget Office’s 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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