Commander Stryker, call your service

"Interceptors, immediate launch."

Why colonise the Moon?  According to Mechanix Illustrated in 1948,

The aggressor who sets up the first interplanetary outpost on the moon (sic) can dominate not only the world but the entire solar system.

That statement raised a few eyebrows on Jupiter.

Moonbase 2

Architecture and Vision unveils its design for the future American moonbase.

Still no word on when the interceptors will be on line.

Moonbase of Moondoggle?

This article by Gregg Easterbrook in Slate is a bit too cynical for my tastes, but it does raise the important question of whether the proposed US moonbase would, like the International Space Station, end up being built merely to justify its own existence.

Lt. Ellis, Call Your Service.

The United States is planning to establish a base on the Moon.

What the purpose of such a base will be or whether it will be manned by babes in purple wigs has yet to be decided.