January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... for political objectives, so there is no such thing as a ‘space war’ - there is only war. Because wars on Earth are not decided solely by what happens in space, and space may not necessarily be where a war begins, spacepower in Earth orbit is likely...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... and contestable realm like coastal waters and oceans have been for continental powers” - Bleddyn Bowen, War in Space These relatively moderate differences between Dolman’s bluewater analogy and Bowen’s cosmic ‘coastal’ analogy lead to significant...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
.... This is particularly true for countries of differing cultures and historical sensitivities to past military conflicts. How to end a space war Wars are all ultimately about politics. It might be assumed that when the initial reasons for the start...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... satellites are being used for military purposes; space militarisation is leading to space weaponization; space weaponization is being supported by space war fighting capabilities; and space war fighting capabilities are being expanded and perfected...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...been increasingly strident talk about the need to consider outer space as a ‘war fighting domain’ after President Donald Trump announced at the ... he made in March to the effect that, ‘Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... human TV series as ‘historical documents’. Then there’s Mars Attacks (1996) as the antidote to over-the-top space war films that, in my view, foolishly assume we could beat a conquering fleet of alien spaceships capable of traversing interstellar...
