Outer space

New Report Warns: US Must Prepare For Space Warfare

The developing stage for warfare is in cyberspace, but the next stage could well grow in a familiar frontier – space. The modern world is not merely using outer space, it’s utterly reliant on it. From GPS to communication satellites, we use space to relay messages, gather intel, control sophisticated machinery from across the globe – and knocking these targets out can be a very attractive prospect for a rogue actor.

A recent report from the Center for a New American Security highlights precisely these vulnerabilities and calls on the Pentagon to change its strategy with it comes to safeguarding space-bound strategic resources. The report warns that China, Russia, and other rivals to the West have noticed our reliance on space and are plotting ways to exploit it.

Space is “becoming a domain like any other — air, sea, land, and electromagnetic — in which the United States will have to compete and fight the ability to access and exploit the domain rather than assume safe and uncontested passage within and use of it,” the report reads.