@dobby wrote:
I was in a discussion group on asymmetrical space warfare a few months ago. Especially in LEO there are several ways that a small nation can damage the supremacy of the big three relatively cheaply, as in easily under a million dollars a shot as well as replacing satellite functions without a space program.
With the US backing away from expensive cold war superpower status I expect to see more WW-I and WW-II type major conflicts where smaller regional powers take a shot at settling conflicts and borders frozen post WW-II, they will have to neutralize the advantages to space based comms and recon.
It makes me sick that to back away from MAD WW-III megaton megadeath we are probably inviting the return of great power wars and the dissolution of a quite stable, by historical standards, though questionably unjust world order.