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Lawfare Archive: Jim Sciutto on ‘The Shadow War’

The Lawfare Podcast

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Discussion on Space Capabilities and Vulnerabilities

Exploring the vulnerabilities in space, focusing on laser capabilities, KKVs, and satellite manipulation that could endanger critical assets like military and civilian satellites. Highlights the susceptibility of US infrastructure to space-based attacks and the potential consequences.

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You talk in the book about laser capabilities. You talk about KKVs, the kinetic kill vehicles. You even talk about satellites capable of inappropriately touching other satellites, you know, grabbing other satellites by their transponders and hauling them in. What should the US be most worried about in the space domain? Well,
Speaker 1
they're already there, right? These weapons are already up there at every level of the space domain. Russia and China have both capably tested kamikaze satellites, kind of a nickname for the kill vehicles and kidnapper satellites. They're kind of nicknamed for the ones with the grappling arm that the Chinese seem to have perfected, perfected, but they've perfected that all the way up to geosynchronous orbit. So 20,000 miles up, right? And that requires enormous capability, maneuverability, vision, you
Speaker 2
know, in the commitment to see it through. Absolutely.
Speaker 1
Now, our most sensitive satellites are up there too, nuclear early warning, for instance. So they can already today cripple the US military. They can't. And, you know, GPS, you know, is so many of our weapons. You know, it's the disadvantage of being so advanced, right? And therefore you're more dependent and classic asymmetric warfare. They know that so they know if I kick them up there. And I don't have to take out all 24 GPS constellation satellites. I can take out a quarter of those and then significantly blind US forces in the field. And then there's the civilian aspect of that too, is that we have, you know, civilian capabilities that are dependent on those satellite assets, time stamps, for instance, for US financial markets come from GPS satellites. So you could disable civilian systems as well and significantly paralyze the US in the event of.
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