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Chinese. and therefore, i don't think there's going to be near as much of a deterrent thought in their minds. >> but today you don't believe that china sees an offensive strike in space as a red line, as crossing a red line? >> not in all their writings that we've 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. >> resilience is the ability to shrug off the bad thing that happens to you to get back up quickly when you...

I don't think we've had that same dialogue with the chinese and i don't think there's going to be as much of a deterrent thought in their minds. >> you don't believe china sees an offensive line in space as crossing a red line? >> not in all of their writings that we've 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. >> resilience is the ability to shrug off the bad thing that happens to you to get back up quickly w...

Followed. human beings forever have wanted to explore what's beyond the hill, the horizon, as we go out there, there's 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, there's conflict and in that case we'll 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 made there, this is kind of the natural course of human events. it's contested space up there a...

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, until recently the head of u.s. space command, has been promoted ed td to lead st command, charged from ...

The curious thing of protecting the symbol of our rights by limiting our rights. that's 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. you'll want to see this, when we come back.