War is Boring – A hot topic during the Space Symposium at The Broadmoor this month was India’s anti-satellite test, which shocked some leaders and solidified arguments that space is quickly becoming the next war zone.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan embraced the theme in his speech that kicked off the symposium. “The next war may be won or lost in space,” he said.
Russia and China, too, have anti-satellite technologies. They are including space in war plans.
The race is on to reconfigure the American military’s leadership in space with the new U.S. Space Command at Peterson and Schriever Air Force bases.
But what no one is talking about are the tools America possesses to defend American satellites and to threaten enemy spacecraft.
