"Space: The Final Frontier ... for War?" Topic
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Tango01  | 25 Sep 2018 9:49 p.m. PST |
""Space is a war-fighting domain." It's a mantra that U.S. officials have been stating ever since the Chinese blew up their own weather satellite during an anti-satellite missile test in 2007. Eleven years on, it's a phrase that U.S. President Donald Trump repeated in March in making the case for the creation of a Space Force. Although there is a growing awareness of the militarization of space — and that the area around Earth is indeed a potential theater of war — the Space Force debate remains a predominantly bureaucratic and organizational one. But while enhanced defense in space is important, it alone will not solve the root danger of the growing risk of an extraterrestrial war among terrestrial powers. Earth's immediate environs have become vital for humanity, and critical in particular to the world economy and the telecommunications network that supports it. Accordingly, it is important to avoid a war in space, especially since debris from destroyed satellites would cause massive collateral damage to other objects in orbit around our planet. Avoiding conflict in space, however, will require both a sound defense policy and a concerted international diplomatic effort…."
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| Part time gamer | 25 Sep 2018 10:15 p.m. PST |
Where Man Goes, War Grows. Its Who we are. |
| Tango01 | 26 Sep 2018 11:34 a.m. PST |
Sad… but true…. Amicalement
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