The war on terror in outer space.

[Meeker Morgan]

Afraid so.

Talk about asymmetric warfare.

Space Daily:

US using space supremacy to wage combat in Iraq, Afghanistan
http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/060623105932.hsi1ekl0.html

The US military is relying ever more on space satellites to help wage combat in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, though analysts say that Washington's space supremacy could be threatened by rivals in the future.

The Pentagon is using sophisticated satellites that orbit Earth in a bid to track down its enemies and keep a round-the-clock watch on unfriendly foes.

The technological advantage can prove lethal, as witnessed by the recent air raid that killed the long-wanted Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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Initially satellites had been fired into space to back surveillance and reconnaissance operations, but they are now being used more and more to back "war fighting operations in real time," Michael O'Hanlon, an expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, told the same panel at Wednesday's hearing.

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"There is a real possibility that, at some future point, the United States may have powerful reasons to develop anti-satellite weapons itself," said O'Hanlon.

He noted that before Donald Rumsfeld became defense secretary, he chaired a space commission in which he warned of a "space Pearl Harbor" unless Washington took stronger steps to protect its future interests in the field.

[RC]

1. If the US would work with other nations instead of its 'Bull-in-the-china

-shop' diplomacy, maybe, just maybe we wouldn't 'need' all these high tech toys the paranoid right thinks we need to defend us, US.