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The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space | "We have to build capabilities that provide our leadership offensive and defensive options."
“We have to build capabilities that provide our leadership offensive and defensive options.”…
At the end of the movie (spoiler alert if you haven't seen this 60-year-old film), a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union results in the automatic activation of a secret Russian "doomsday machine" that will destroy all life on Earth. One of these defensive measures is resiliency, where the Space Force puts up constellations of hundreds or thousands of satellites to provide the surveillance, communication, and missile-tracking functions previously the domain of smaller numbers of billion-dollar satellites—big, juicy targets in the eyes of an enemy in conflict with the United States. The Pentagon is also concerned with the ability of potential adversaries, particularly China, to use their satellites to bolster their land, air, and naval forces, similar to the way the US military leans on its space-based capabilities.
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