March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... principles to the greatest extent possible. Put simply, the United States will need to find ways to limit war in space However, the United States should not confine its deterrent and defensive efforts to the enforcement of these...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... notices its absence when it does not work.” [Neufeld, Cold War - but no war - in space] The political reality of outer space is at odds with the spirit of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Spacepower has gone from warning and targeting systems...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... of unimaginable extent, scope and nature. One US Air Force General is reported to have stated that after a war in space, “You go back to World War II... you go back to the Industrial Age”. Most of the above issues can only be resolved through...
16 March 2018
Trump suggests creating a Space Force to fight in space
..., President Trump talked candidly of creating a “Space Force,” a branch of the U.S military primed to deal with potential conflict in space. “The new National Strategy for Space recognises that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air...
24 June 2020
US steps up space weaponisation rhetoric
... can interpret it,” says Bleddyn Bowen, lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester in England and author of ‘War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, & Geopolitics’ out this year from the Edinburgh University Press. “All Russia and...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... not realise that our very way of life depends on space. Space has transformed how we communicate, navigate, produce food and ...The JSpOC needs to use its resources to fight and win wars in space. I have heard time and time again from DoD leadership ...
