- The Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing on worldwide threats the US faces.
- Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats said the US needs to be worried about the militarization of space.
- Much of the fear is centered on Russian and Chinese efforts to build up satellites and anti-satellite warfare capabilities.
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The chief of US intelligence just warned the US is under threat of a space attack
Director Coats had a scary message today for the Senate: "as if we don't have enough threats here on earth, we need to look to the heavens- threats in space."
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats warned about threats from space at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Tuesday.
"As if we don't have enough threats here on earth, we need to look to the heavens — threats in space," he said.
"The global expansion of the space industry will extend space-enabled capabilities and situational awareness to nation-states and commercial space actors in the coming years. The primary concern relates to satellites and anti-satellite capabilities."
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Right now, the US military is heavily reliant on GPS and signals sent between satellites in space.
China and Russia continue to at least publicly promote diplomatic efforts to prevent the militarization of space. But as Coats pointed out, "many classes of weapons would not be addressed by such proposals, allowing them to continue their pursuit of space warfare capabilities while publicly maintaining that space must be a peaceful domain."
In the words of Zellmann: "When you start taking away those combat multipliers, we need to go back then to the days of the industrial-age army where you have to have three times as many people as the adversary does."
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