His day job involves commenting on what’s happening in real time around the globe but David Ignatius, the highly respected foreign affairs columnist of the Washington Post, also uses his journalistic sources and methods as the basis for compelling fiction. Thus his latest spy novel “Phantom Orbit” offers great insights into the importance of America’s nascent Space Force and the untold consequences for space warfare.  That warfare he tells us as we weave from what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine, back to the elements of his novel, is a key reason that Ukraine has been able to track and defend itself against a better equipped Russian military.  We ask David to take us around the globe and into space to better understand the forces at play attempting to undermine American superiority technologically in low orbit, as well as the situation in the Middle East and U.S.relations with China.