The Outer Space Treaty and the Race for Space Control
The move marks the first public admission by any country that it has deployed weapons in space, intensifying fears over orbit becoming a battlefield.
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Experts discuss the recent announcement by U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink, who revealed that his country had deployed weapons in Earth orbit. According to The New York Times, this is the first public recognition of this kind by a Pentagon official after years of preparations to counter possible deployments of Russia and China.
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EurasiaThe Final Frontier goes to war: The militarisation of space
Space is becoming an increasingly contested domain as major powers expand military capabilities, satellite infrastructure, and counterspace systems, while the U.S. Golden Dome initiative reshapes strategic stability and raises new questions about the future of space governance. On 14th September 2026, US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink confirmed that the US has "on-orbit" weapons capable of safeguarding the US against hostile actions. It i…
The Outer Space Treaty and the Race for Space Control
In September, the United States publicly acknowledged for the first time that it operates weapons in orbit. The announcement confirmed how far the military competition in space had already progressed. Beijing and Moscow criticized the U.S. announcement, but both are developing systems that can threaten an opponent’s satellites while protecting their own access to space. […]
Trump's megalomania and the conditions for modern wars are simultaneously satisfied by the rapid development of American space capabilities. A new chapter in the arms race opens when the Pentagon, the first in the world to admit that it has put space weapons into orbit. In the meantime, the budget of the Space Force has been pumped up and the Golden Dome is being built. But why is it such a bad idea to wage war in space?
A New Arms Race is Threatening to Take-off—this time in Outer Space
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) – The world’s ongoing arms race is threatening to extend beyond planet earth—and spillover into outer space. The US has deployed weapons in space and will use them to defend American forces, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said last week, according to Cable News Network (CNN). His comments marked the first public acknowledgment of such capabilities, though he offered no details about the weapons or…
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