Mark Hat, VICE: We Asked a Military Expert What Would Happen if There Were a War in Space
Earlier this month, at the annual Space Symposium, members of the US military quietly but clearly voiced their concern that war is coming to space. Soon after officials announced that the Pentagon is looking for $5.5 billion to build up its space defense systems by 2020, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James straight up admitted that, looking at the layout of modern space exploration, the US now believes it's facing new and evolving threats to everything it owns above earth.
"We need to be ready," James said, according to National Defense Magazine. 'We must prepare for the potentiality of conflict that might extend from earth one day into space."
This isn't just bluster from one corner of the government. This year, Congress urged the Secretary of Defense and Director of National Intelligence to start studying offensive space weapons in addition to defensive systems. The funds allocated for these studies weren't huge—but the very concept of openly pushing for space weaponization is an interesting developing.
WNU Editor: The end result of any conflict in space will be debris floating in space that will make space travel/satellites in space/etc. a risky endeavor for generations.
2 comments:
Hence the US Air Force's X-37B. Said it before, they are establishing backup communications. I can't believe the Chinese or Russian's haven't tracked its journey, or maybe they have. Behind the moon is probably the only place to hide albeit not particularly safe.
Near earth orbit or geosynchonous orbit is all good.
It just depends on who has the bigger battalions.
1/2 our country said they do not want battalions. So I guess we lose.
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