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Will the worlds next big conflict be in outer space? And if so what would a ‘Space Force’ do? This week, Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow in Heritage’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy helps explain.
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That was an excellent podcast. I’m especially interested in GPS since my Dad invented it. I have one minor quibble. COTS began under W’s administration not Obama’s.
To infinity and beyond!
I have not read Dean’s report, but a major alarm on this issue went off in my head back when LightSquared’s 5G network interfered with GPS by accident. That told me just how vulnerable we are, and how far behind we must be against any adversaries who have thought about this issue at all.
I remember 1991 and the specter of Gerald Bull’s “supergun” in Iraqi hands. We were more reliant on LOREN back then, but GPS was still important in flanking the Iraqis in the last 100 hours of that conflict.
We have propped in space our eyes, in two senses our ears (signals intelligence and our own communications), and our sense of direction. A gun or rocket hauling a payload of ball barrings mutes all these senses.