Space war and other distractions

The Americans bragged they've launched ‘space-control weapons.’ While high ground has always been an advantage in land warfare, that is not necessarily the same for space, which lacks key targets.

The revelation from the U.S. Space Force chief Troy Meink was not news to America’s adversaries but it got him some publicity, writes Gwynne Dyer.NASA photograph courtesy of Joel Kowsky

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 17, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—When Troy Meink, the chief of the United States Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the U.S. “now has on-orbit space-control weapons,” people naturally assume that something is up. Why is Meink admitting the truth now? He’s even boasting ab...

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