On Wednesday, the Pentagon released the Defense Space Strategy document, which recommends policy positions for what they are anticipating will be an upcoming era of war-fighting in space, identifying China and Russia as primary adversaries.
The goal is for the US to maintain “space superiority” and develop a strategic environment in which the US military has a culture compatible with space war-fighting, where future US wars will just naturally include a dimension in space.
As always, the practical need of all of this is the big hole in these reports. The report notes China and Russia have, like the US, the capability to interfere with one anothers’ satellites, whether through cyber-attacks or more conventional means. It does not follow that this necessarily means space conflicts will result, or that capabilities beyond mutual deterrence are really needed.
As with the advent of the US Air Force, the US Space Force is stepping up the scale and complexity of hypothetical wars to such an extent that the cost of funding the program would grow substantially. This is almost certainly a favor in justifying the “need” for this space superiority, as it is another blank check for generations of runaway military spending.
What a diseased war loving culture.
Yup.
I would rather we tried for some moral superiority. LOL.
What’s sad is that we think we already have that.
in order to extent the war corporations ever growing profit, they always come up with new threats against the US hegemony ( national security ).
Russia, China, now space….. next will be the moon, mars, our solar solar system. What about the threat from the underground.
It’s not just about profit. They really are intent on conquering the planet, permanently!
And with Pence and Pompeo being part of the administration, what about heaven and hell?
Will Mars be joining NATO?
I think Mars is red….
Cancel culture time on all Martians!
Let’s put all the worlds Nukes in a big pile then give every nation a button to push if they feel exploited or bullied or just have had enough of the so called superior beings that have and would if they could enslave the “lessor” creatures on this planet.
And more big-business cronies get fat off the theft from the citizens.
…. Space Force might not secure Netflix superiority…
China and Russia have developed an arsenal of anti-satellite weapons; space superiority is just a buzz phrase with no meaning, unless the plan is to squat all the best orbital positions with junk.
How the Eurasians would react to that kind of space area denial, is not clear.