The New Arms Race
China launched a groundbreaking mission last year to soft-land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side space power to rival Russia, the European Union & the U.S. |
Now, we must recognize that the space race is no longer mere ornamentation over earthly military competition.
“The United States and China are rapidly building space warfare capabilities,” writes Bill Gertz in the Washington Examiner, “as part of a race to dominate the zone outside Earth’s atmosphere.”
Of course, much of this remains ground support. WHNT News 19 in Alabama quotes the Commander of the U.S. Space and Missile Defense Command at Redstone Arsenal — a Lieutenant General who “will soon become Deputy Commander of the U.S. Space Command in Colorado” — explaining that current space resources must be ever-ready in support of “the war fighter, the soldier on the ground.”
But the “satellites in space” he refers to, the ones with “very unique capabilities,” are not just about ground support. For when Donald Trump proposed a new Space Force military division last year, he wasn’t blowing smoke.
Billions of future dollars, maybe, but not smoke.
In the works?
- “AI for space war to stop anti-satellite weapons”;
- Capabilities to treat “Space [a]s a warfighting domain similar to air, land and sea”;
- Space planes, such as the in-dev X-37B;
The Chinese are looking for “space superiority,” says American intelligence, and of course “you know what this means,” as Bugs Bunny liked to say.
War?
At least war profits.
Even France is talking about militarizing space.
Brave new world? Or more of the same, just higher up?
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Paul Jacob (@Common_Sense_PJ ) is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service.
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