WASHINGTON –
The Pentagon is rushing to expand its capacity to wage war in space, believing that China and Russia’s rapid advances in space operations pose a growing threat to U.S. troops and other military assets on the ground and U.S. satellites in orbit around the earth.
Details of the Pentagon attack remain top secret. But Defense Department officials have increasingly recognized that the initiative reflects a major shift in military operations as space increasingly becomes a battlefield.
The United States will no longer simply rely on military satellites to communicate, navigate, track and target terrestrial threats, tools that have given the Pentagon a major advantage in conflict for decades.
