美国准备好应对太空战时代了吗？

2025/5/6 11:50Is America ready for an era of space warfare?https:/www.brookings.edu/articles/is-america-ready-for-an-era-of-space-warfare/1/7For technological,political,and practical reasons,space has yet to beweaponized like the other domains of warfare.Now,however,the United StatesSpace Forces chief of space operations,General B.Chance Saltzman,has saidthat the Space Forceto militarily dominate space.Russia and China are likewise that could be used toattack U.S.satellites.Regardless of ones beliefs on the wisdom and outcomes offighting a war in space,it is clear that a new era,in which the United States organizes,trains,and equips for space combat,has arrived.Why fight in space?The technical answer to why space has become a militarily contested domain has itsroots in 20th-century airpower theory.Like the sky,space is a unique operational areathat provides access to places that ground and naval forces cannot reach.Spacecrafthave the same ability attributed to aircraft:they can look downand what they seecan be of military valuethey can be communicated with,or they can be attacked.The other quality,one that is new to space,is persistence.Satellites were onceexpensive to build,expens