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To counter China, Indias DSA begins scouting for star wars technology SECTIONS Share Synopsis The move assumes importance given that China, notwithstanding its public stance, has been strengthening its military space capabilities by continuing to develop and acquire a variety of space capabilities designed to limit or prevent an adversarys use of space-based assets during crisis or conflict. Agencies (This story originally appeared in on Feb 23, 2021)Nearly two years after India demonstrated ...

Lets not be seduced into think trump administration is pure comedy i have a weakness for vice president pence he needs to fall back from that speech on thursday which he warned the universe were going to send war fighters into space there go to achieve u.s. dominion over space. and you know, i think about these science fiction warnings about intergalattic flesh-eating aliens in the universe monitoring us and think of this mousey fella talking about dominating them and thinking i dont think so mi...

Chris, thank you very much. coming up, and may sound like something out of this world, but the military says a space war is and the united states is not ready. next, how this could cripple america. a new film shedding light on the late senator ted kennedys "chappaquiddick" car crash that killed a young woman. her cousin towards me exclusively on what this movie means for her family. >> this country has a deep connection to the kennedy name and that is valuable. we cant just let that go to waste....

Deal. you have to separate out that policy conversation with the intelligence. does it say theyre complying or not? what are the facts on the ground. and then pass it along to the advisers to the president for them to decide what to do. intel is one thing. policy is another. there is a bright line between them. >> very good point. phil mudd. jackie kucinich, manu raju and r rebecca berg, thank you all. is russia getting ready for a space war? what is north korea getting ready for? the u.s. s...

Space war. >> explosions in space, that no one will hear. >> peter singer wrote about this dire scenario in his book, "ghost fleet," and he now advises the defense department on just this type of threat. >> you are now in world war iii. so, besides losing your ability to take out money from an atm, your nation is in world war iii. >> reporter: this is not fantasy. this is the future. a future for which the u.s. is now urgently preparing. >> if you say, is it inevitable? then the answer is probab...

Chinese. and therefore, i dont think theres going to be near as much of a deterrent thought in their minds. >> but today you dont believe that china sees an offensive strike in space as a red line, as crossing a red line? >> not in all their writings that weve been able to glean. >> fact of life. >> fact of life. >> so how to make space war less likely? some space commanders say they must convince adversaries that the u.s. has so many assets in space that it could survive any attack. >> resilien...

I dont think weve had that same dialogue with the chinese and i dont think theres going to be as much of a deterrent thought in their minds. >> you dont believe china sees an offensive line in space as crossing a red line? >> not in all of their writings that weve been able to glean. >> fact of life. >> fact of life. >> so how to make space war less likely. some space commanders say they must convince adversaries that the u.s. has so many assets in space, that it could survive any attack. >> res...

Followed. human beings forever have wanted to explore whats beyond the hill, the horizon, as we go out there, theres always been conflict. conflict into the wild west as we move into the west. conflict twice in europe with horrible world wars so every time humans physically move into that, theres conflict and in that case well have to be prepared for that. >> jim sciutto is joining us now. jim, why does the u.s. military think a war in space may be inevitable? >> partly the point general highten...

One will hear. >> reporter: peter singing wrote about this dire scenario in his book "ghost fleet" and he now advises the department on just this type of threat. >> you are now in world war iii so besides losing your ability to take out money from an atm, your nation is in world war iii. >> reporter: this is not fantasy, this is the future, a future for which the u.s. is now urgently preparing. >> if you say is it inevitable, the answer is probably yes. >> reporter: general john heighten, unti...

The curious thing of protecting the symbol of our rights by limiting our rights. thats a rather odd response to a very small problem. >> jonathan turley of george washington university law school. thanks very much. >> thanks, wolf. coming up, the u.s. is aurgtly prepaaurgt urgently preparing for the necessary threat of war in outer space. we have details. youll want to see this, when we come back.