David Mitlyng

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of early American leaders ratified the Declaration of Independence...Today, the world is hooked on GPS.

GPS has practically become a “background feature of our everyday world," but "this state of affairs has allowed GPS to become one of the most systematically exploited technologies in the world." And it isn't isolated to just one bad actor; “There is every reason to believe China’s BeiDou global navigation satellite system has the ability to imitate American GPS signals."

The official definition of sovereign is “having independent authority and the right to govern itself,” most usually referring to countries. And independence, in this case, requires breaking the dependence on things they critically need but are out of their control...