A few weeks later, the Space Command released plans to go beyond US "control" of space formilitary purposes to "ownership," which is to be permanent, in accord with the Security Strategy.Ownership of space is "key to our nation's military effectiveness," permitting "instantengagement anywhere in the world… A viable prompt global strike capability, whether nuclear or non-nuclear,will allow the US to rapidly strike high-payoff, difficult-to-defeat targets from stand-off ranges and producethe desired effect… [and] to provide warfighting commanders the ability to rapidly deny, delay, deceive,disrupt, destroy, exploit and neutralize targets in hours/minutes rather than weeks/days even when US andallied forces have a limited forward presence," thus reducing the need for overseas bases that regularlyarouse local antagonism.