The suggestion that the SLS has military value no doubt strikes the
Pentagon as insane. It'll take years to prep for each launch and will
fly too rarely for AF, NRO, etc. to consider it reliable enough for
critical national security payloads, even if they could dream up a way
to use such gigantic capacity. And they can barely afford EELVs. What
is this thing going to cost per launch? Assuming the SLS is
successful, its utility will be limited to launching large habitats,
specialized modules like a preassembled lunar observatory, and long-
duration manned spacecraft. (I suspect they will end up launching
the humans separately.)

Matt Bille
www.mattwriter.com