It looks like the US is hard a work developing next-gen weapons. This article from the guardian talks about next generation global reach weapons including drones and space based weapons. This kind of important development is the stuff that our military will be doing in the future. Better defense for our nation. The best benefit is described in the first paragraph of the article:
Allies to become less important as new generation of weapons enables America to strike anywhere from its own territory
These kind of developments have a tendency to cause uproars from the global community. This is unfortunate as they shouldn’t cause concern for our allies. Terrorists and countries that support terrorism are something else entirely.