How many lives has GPS saved? Even if all it did was prevent one KAL007 type event a decade, that's already thousands

edit: Korean Air 007 was an airliner that was shot down by the USSR after straying into their airspace. It had a huge influence on the decision to make GPS available for civilian use.

Usually I'd agree with you, but this is a case of DoD wanting to preserve infrastructure for targeting drones vs corporations seeing $$$ in robotic deployment and automation so they can eliminate jobs. Who knows who will win.

The drones thing is hyperbole because (so far) they drop the bombs overseas, but my point is that they have an interest in preserving GPS domestically.

Deterrence is hard to measure, but US military superiority correlates with a period of relatively low global conflict.

Maybe so, but the evidence is weak at best. Some wars (like Iraq, Korea, Vietnam) were a sham. I'd feel more comfortable knowing nobody had nuclear weapons.

You'd feel more comfortable, but is that the same as actually being safer?

You could ask someone who was living in Japan in 1945.

Or someone living in Nanking in 1938.