March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... principles to the greatest extent possible. Put simply, the United States will need to find ways to limit war in space However, the United States should not confine its deterrent and defensive efforts to the enforcement of these...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... notices its absence when it does not work.” [Neufeld, Cold War - but no war - in space] The political reality of outer space is at odds with the spirit of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Spacepower has gone from warning and targeting systems...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... of unimaginable extent, scope and nature. One US Air Force General is reported to have stated that after a war in space, “You go back to World War II... you go back to the Industrial Age”. Most of the above issues can only be resolved through...
16 March 2018
Trump suggests creating a Space Force to fight in space
..., President Trump talked candidly of creating a “Space Force,” a branch of the U.S military primed to deal with potential conflict in space. “The new National Strategy for Space recognises that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air...
24 June 2020
US steps up space weaponisation rhetoric
... can interpret it,” says Bleddyn Bowen, lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester in England and author of ‘War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, & Geopolitics’ out this year from the Edinburgh University Press. “All Russia and...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... and also to de-escalating tensions The treaty was, however, drafted at the height of the Cold War when space activity was the preserve of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The creation of a ...
