There was definitely graft, but central goal of the SDI program was to frighten the USSR into throwing a bunch of resources at countering a fictitious weapon system. Some even credit SDI with accelerating the Soviet Union's collapse.
I doubt The Space Force has anything like as well thought out a strategy behind it as SDI did. What thinking has gone into it is a lot less likely to be about sending Space Marines to occupy Mars than about placing orbital weapon systems and targeting other orbital weapon systems. A decent sized ball of steel dropped from orbit makes almost as nasty a mess as a low-yield nuke, minus rending the target uninhabitable for millennia.
$8 billion for something we already do is nonsense.
Space force: your logos mock Trump's new frontier
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This is the perfect time to introduce war by proxy. We and the nation we are at war with choose a few champions and roll up characters in Traveler and then fight it out over PBEM. With Trump as GM, hahah
FYI, my character has a Gauss Gun reserved
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