{"id":120236,"date":"2023-10-21T06:59:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=120236"},"modified":"2023-10-21T06:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:59:45","slug":"huge-space-war-between-us-russia-and-china-looms-with-satellite-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/huge-space-war-between-us-russia-and-china-looms-with-satellite-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge \u2018space war\u2019 between US, Russia and China looms with satellite attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Space, we’re told, is the final frontier. This fact is not lost on superpowers like the United States, Russia and China, three countries who, some experts suggest, could yet go to war.<\/p>\n

This war, they say, will take place here, on planet Earth. But what about the war in space? Is this possible? And if so, what would it look like?<\/p>\n

According to General Chance Saltzman, the Chief of Space Operations for the US Space Force, the space around our beloved planet is set to become a prime arena for\u00a0military competition.<\/p>\n

General Saltzman warns that, as superpowers like China and the United States wrestle for control of space, the chances of lethal conflict will increase.<\/p>\n

As The Debrief\u00a0recently reported, this perhaps explains why the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now accepting \u201cproposals for advanced, futuristic space weapons that don\u2019t currently exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the US still deals in hypotheticals, China appears to be dealing in devastating tangibles.<\/p>\n

A piece published by The\u00a0South China Morning Post on September 6 suggests that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has successfully developed a “force gun”.<\/p>\n

This futuristic weapon \u201cuses magnetic plasma rings to manipulate distant objects in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it exists – and that, of course, is a big if – it could be used to capture American spacecraft, cause spacecraft to collide, or, at a bare minimum, alter their orbital trajectories.<\/p>\n

In recent years, around the world, the smartest minds in weapons development have been dreaming up devices that use\u00a0lasers and sound waves to control distant objects from thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n

Space war is coming \u2013 and when it does, the effects could be devastating. Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, a professor of strategy and security studies at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), told the Daily Express that although there hasn\u2019t been a space conflict yet, “we know that countries are already doing non-kinetic things like lasing or blinding satellites (utilising lasers or other methods to basically aim at sensors and disrupt them) or using electromagnetic systems to otherwise interrupt or spy on communications going through satellites.”<\/p>\n

Which begs the question: why haven\u2019t we heard more about these activities?<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause these types of activities haven’t permanently disabled satellites,\u201d says Cobb, \u201ccountries are hesitant to state that that is conflict because they want to do the same to others. So right now, then, space is sort of a grey zone in conflict\u2014neither open war nor peace\u2014with most \u2018attacks\u2019 consisting of temporary and reversible effects.\u201d<\/p>\n