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Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary - Constraining the Military Uses of Space (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary - Constraining the Military Uses of Space (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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"Space has been militarized for over four decades. Should it now be
weaponized? This incisive and insightful book argues that it should
not. Since the cold war, space has come to harbor many tools of the
tactical warfighter. Satellites have long been used to provide
strategic communication, early warning of missile launch, and arms
control verification. The U.S. armed forces increasingly use space
assets to locate and strike targets on the battlefield. To date,
though, no country deploys destructive weapons in space, for use
against space or Earth targets, and no country possesses
ground-based weapons designed explicitly to damage objects in
space. The line between nonweaponization and weaponization is
blurry, to be sure-but it has not yet been crossed. In Ne ither
Star Wars nor Sanctuary, Michael E. O'Hanlon makes a forceful case
for keeping it this way. The United States, with military space
budgets of around $20 billion a year, enjoys a remarkably favorable
military advantage in space. Pursuing a policy of space
weaponization solely in order to maximize its own military
capabilities would needlessly jeopardize this situation by likely
hastening development of space weapons in numerous countries. It
would also reaffirm the prevalent international image of the United
States as a global cowboy of sorts, too quick to reach for the gun.
O'Hanlon therefore asserts that U.S. military space policy should
focus on delaying any movement toward weaponization, without
foreclosing the option of developing space weapons in the future,
if necessary. Extreme positions that would either hasten to
weaponize space or permanently rule this out are not consistent
with technological realities and U.S. security interests. "
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