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My briefing in this week's @TheEconomist on war in space, with reporting from across Colorado, California and Washington. Part of our Apollo-timed cover package on the next 50 years in space. economist.com/briefing/2019/…
"space has since become a sinew of terrestrial military power in ways that were unimaginable even when Apollo 11 touched down in 1969. The point is not that the next war will be fought in space, as though it is a battlefield unto itself; it is that the next war may not spare it"
A few footnotes to things I found useful when researching and writing this piece. To start with, two very detailed reports on global counter-space capabilities. One by @SWFoundation: swfound.org/media/206408/s… And the other, more adversary-focused, by @CSIS: aerospace.csis.org/wp-content/upl… 
On some of the legal and diplomatic tussles around space security, see @bleddb's excellent chapter "Space Oddities: Law, War, and the Proliferation of Spacepower" in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology books.google.co.uk/books?id=iX-YD…
On the same subject, former DASD for space and defense policy Frank Rose's testimony in March: docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY… And his paper for Brookings last year: brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
On space-related cyber-security, various helpful papers: belfercenter.org/sites/default/…, chathamhouse.org/sites/default/…, chathamhouse.org/sites/default/… and cfr.org/report/cyberse…
Recent statements of US policy: armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…, media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/16/20…, dia.mil/Portals/27/Doc…, fas.org/irp/doddir/dod…, media.defense.gov/2019/Mar/01/20…
Recent @WarOnTheRocks pieces on space or space-related issues: warontherocks.com/2017/05/from-u…, warontherocks.com/2019/07/space-…, warontherocks.com/2019/03/recalc…, warontherocks.com/2016/08/space-…, warontherocks.com/2015/05/how-th…, warontherocks.com/2019/07/space-…
On how the laws of war might apply in space: law.upenn.edu/live/files/785…, mpil.de/files/pdf3/04_…, digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewconten…, swfound.org/media/1803/int…, pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0f32/eb6518712…, swfound.org/news/all-news/…
