(Just kidding...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

In a 1997 article, Norman Spinrad wrote that Pournelle had written the SDI portion of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Address, as part of a plan to use SDI to get more money for space exploration, using the larger defense budget.[37] Pournelle wrote in response that while the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy "wrote parts of Reagan's 1983 SDI speech, and provided much of the background for the policy, we certainly did not write the speech ... We were not trying to boost space, we were trying to win the Cold War". The Council's first report in 1980[38] became the transition team policy paper on space for the incoming Reagan administration. The third report was certainly quoted in the Reagan "Star Wars" speech.
He is sometimes quoted as describing his politics as "somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan".[39] Nevertheless, Pournelle opposed the Gulf War and the Iraq War, maintaining that the money would be better spent developing energy technologies for the United States.
Pournelle is also known for his Pournelle chart, a 2-dimensional coordinate system used to distinguish political ideologies that he initially delineated in his dissertation. It is similar to the Nolan Chart, except that the X-axis gauges opinion toward state and centralized government (farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil"), and the Y-axis measures the belief that all problems in society have rational solutions (top being complete confidence in rational planning, bottom being complete lack of confidence in rational planning).

Now they are split into camps that support the Reagan administration`s Strategic Defense Initiative, the so-called ``Star Wars`` defense against intercontinental missiles, or urge alternatives such as cooperation in space with the Soviet Union.

As befits their status as 20th Century seers, they and their opinions are being accorded careful attention by powerful individuals in and out of government, including President Reagan.

``People are listening to science-fiction writers more than they did,``

said James Gunn, an expert in the genre at the University of Kansas. ``An element of soapbox missionary work has existed in science fiction back to the days of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. But today authors like Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein have become credible advocates because, as Asimov says, we live in a science-fiction world and people are just starting to realize it.``

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-02/features/8501270085_1_missile-defense-star-wars-authors

Recently the authors Robert A. Heinlein and Jerry Pournelle have been promoting the ``High Frontier`` proposed by Army Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham, retired, in which hundreds of orbiting battle stations, some manned, would be used to shoot down enemy missiles.

The Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy included Sci-Fi authors: Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Robert A. Heinlein, Gregory Benford, Dean Ing, Steven Barnes, Jim Baen, Larry Niven