Bangladesh, May 28 -- When Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office in 2025, his presidency wasted no time reviving one of the most ambitious and controversial military initiatives in US history. Within weeks of inauguration, Trump signed an executive order launching the “Golden Dome,” a sweeping missile defense shield designed to protect the United States from ballistic and hypersonic threats through a complex web of land, sea, air, and – most significantly – space-based systems.

Branded as a bold leap into the future of defense, the Golden Dome initiative has been hailed by Trump as the realization of President Ronald Reagans 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative, once derided as “Star Wars.” Reagans vis...