Then there's the 'use it or lose it' angle to consider and the fact the US has the most to lose in all of this:
And it almost did us in during the Cuban Missile Crisis.Ĭombine multiple players jockeying for position, a close connection between space and nuclear weapon command and control, and a new domain that blunts the advantages of incumbants, and you get a fertile breeding ground for crisis. Certainly the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor fits the bill. Wars result when one side miscalculates how the other side will respond. There's a theory of what causes war among major powers that goes like this. China’s and Russia’s space commands are close on the heels of the United States, and according to the Secure World Foundation, the United States has idled certain of its offensive-technology programs while China and Russia actively test the same capabilities. > Since 2015, Russia, China, India, Iran, Israel, France, and North Korea have all established military space programs. It looks a lot more like the world of the early 1910s and 1930s. The world today looks nothing like the world of the 1960s.
It has never been updated, and was written for a world divided into two Cold War spheres of influence. There is this document called the Outer Space Treaty that was written at the dawn of the Space Age. The main takeaway from this article is that the militarization of space if moving fast.
