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THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS STAR WARS, IS THE LARGEST RESEARCH PROJECT EVER DEVELOPED BY A WESTERN GOVERNMENT AND HAS BEEN A CRUCIAL PART OF US STRATEGY. AS A MILITARY PROGRAM, STAR WARS SEEKS TO RESTORE US MILITARY SUPERIORITY OVER THE SOVIET UNION; BUT AS A TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGY, STAR WARS AIMS AT RE-ESTABLISHING US CONTROL OVER THE DIRECTION OF TECHNICAL CHANGE, SETTING THE GROUND FOR NEW COMPETITION WITH WESTERN EUROPE AND JAPAN.

The Star Wars proposal resulted from the conjuncture of several factors: an organizational and technological base in the weapons laboratories and aerospace industry, effective advocacy by powerful individuals and organizations, and the need of the Reagan administration for a public relations response to the nuclear freeze. The bureaucratic politics, decision process, and social movements paradigms are most useful for explaining the initiation of the proposal. Rational analysis, pressure group, organizational process, and garrison state theories help us to explain the policy outcome.

Kein Film hat die Thirtysomethings und etliche Jahrgänge davor und danach so geprägt wie George Lucas' Weltraumoper. "Die Macht mit uns" erzählt mit amüsanten Stories, bizarren Episoden und aberwitzigen Details, wie Star Wars für eine ganze Generation Teil ihres Alltags und Lebensgefühls wurde.