This passage from an era in which the construction of infrastructures was paramount to our era—in which emphasis is given solely to developing the performances of vehicles and projectiles—is far from being overestimated … As can be seen, military space is undergoing a radical transformation. The ‘conquest of space’ by military and scientific personnel is no longer, as it once was, the conquest of the human habitat but the discovery of an original continuum that has only a distant link to geographical reality.
Paul Virilio, “Military Space” in Bunker Archeology, 1997