Stanley Kurtz says Jeff Kueter’s "China’s Space Ambitions–And Ours," the lead article in the latest issue of The New Atlantis, is well worth a read. Kurtz says:
During the Cold War, space satellites were a stabilizing force–insuring sufficient transparency to allow the "balance of terror" to work. But now space satellites are integrated with weapons systems that target and destroy enemy forces. Our superior war-fighting capability now depends upon space, and that makes us uniquely vulnerable to satellite attack. And with civilian life itself increasingly dependent on navigation and communications satellites, even a small-scale anti-satellite attack could seriously disrupt our domestic economy. Technology makes us powerful and vulnerable at the same time.