OMG we have officially reached 1968. Cue Dr. Strangelove:
"We spend a lot of time talking about how we’re going to talk about these things. It is important from a deterrence perspective. But on the other hand, me talking about the details of what we’re doing would actually not benefit deterrence, so we’re not going to talk about the specifics of what we’re doing, whether we’ve tested it, not tested it, or anything else"
For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/for-the-first-time-the-us-military-confirms-it-has-deployed-weapons-in-orbit/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@flyingpenguin
The USA has performed a study of the things that (accidentally or deliberately) that let one side win wars in the 20th century and is actively pursuing the tactics of the other side in each ongoing conflict (and creating new ones). This time, they are adopting the Soviet response to the Star Wars program, in the hope of losing an economic conflict with China.
I can only assume that the current DoD (sorry, DoW, presumably pronounced like ‘Doh!’) is playing some game where they actively try to get the lowest possible score.