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We Know What Space Wars Will Look Like
June 1, 2021
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Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics.
OPINION “The United States must now be prepared for conflict to extend to, or even to originate in or from, space.”
Instead of focusing on the pressing need to shore up vulnerabilities in current and near-term space capabilities, says one critic, Space Force and SPACECOM are all off trying to train for how they re going to go fight a space war.
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Theresa Hitchens on February 01, 2021 at 7:01 AM
CHPS lunar patrol satellite, AFRL graphic
WASHINGTON: Advocates of expansive US ‘spacepower’ via aggressive actions to “dominate” the heavens from Earth’s orbit to beyond the Moon are likely to find the Biden administration much less supportive of their dreams, say a range of former DoD and US military officials, insiders and long-time space policy wonks.