SPACE

Because the World has not yet experienced a full-out space war, it is difficult to assess what the likely conditions, battlefield tempo, strategies and tactics would underlay a future space conflict. Nevertheless, it is likely that some potential adversary is currently devoting considerable resources to designing systems that can conduct surprise assaults on strategic space assets of major countries. Due to the distant (up to 36,000 km and more) and un-manned nature of satellite systems, detection of these attacks would be difficult, and currently may only be of the "post-mortem" variety. Even with major resource allocations by nations towards intelligence gathering through all mediums, history is replete with examples of major surprise attacks that should have been detected, but were not [Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Bulge (in spite of 11,000 Ultra message decryptions indicating buildup of major German forces for this attack), Yalu River in Korea, most Israeli-Arab conflicts]. The..

Also known as: Space Warfare