AN INTERESTING ARTICLE IN WIRED NEWS on space warfare. And here’s a link to the Air Force paper on “counterspace warfare” that it references. (And read this article and this earlier Air Force paper too, if you’re really interested.)

Contrary to uninformed opinions expressed elsewhere, there’s nothing about space militarization or even warfare in space as such that violates international law. Whether these particular plans are good ones, however, is something I can’t venture an opinion on at this point. However, I’m writing an article on new developments in space law for the Chicago Journal of International Law later this fall, and I’m sure I’ll arrive at an opinion before I’m done.

UPDATE: Here’s a very recent Congressional Research Service report on military space issues.