Abstract
If there was ever a threat to our national security [in space], the best - the only - way to solve the problem is to take weapons into space. During history every medium - air, land and sea - has seen conflict. Contemporary reality indicates that space will be no different. The notion of space warfare is becoming 'a virtual certainty'. The lawful bearing of arms - under a strict code of military justice and within a corpus of humanitarian law - has been accepted as a practical necessity. The humanitarian law of armed conflict applies to all forms of warfare and to all kinds of weapons, those of the past, those of the present and those of the future.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Connecticut Journal of International Law |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- space warfare
- national security
- ballistic missile defenses
- international law
- military policy
- space weapons
