{"id":185022,"date":"2021-05-17T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=185022"},"modified":"2021-05-14T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T04:46:08","slug":"nato-enters-new-warfighting-domain-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/05\/nato-enters-new-warfighting-domain-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Enters New Warfighting Domain in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 May 2021 – <\/em>The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization\u2019s North American command, General Andr\u00e9 Lanata, recently visited U.S. Space Command<\/a> in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The general, as all top commanders of NATO\u2019s Allied Command Transformation (described as NATO\u2019s Warfare Development Command) in Norfolk, Virginia have been since his nation rejoined the NATO Military Command structure in 2009, is French. As the Supreme Allied Commander Europe is always American and the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe is always British when he\u2019s not German.<\/p>\n

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While there he met with General James Dickinson, Commander of the United States Space Command; General Glen VanHerck, Commander of the United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command; and Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier, Deputy Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command.<\/p>\n

NATO officially declared space its newest operational domain in 2019, adding to its other four battlefields: air, land, sea and cyberspace. It is currently setting up a NATO Space Centre at its Allied Air Command headquarters in Ramstein, Germany. The thirty-nation military bloc will soon be conducting missions and operations in space; including but surely not limited to communications, satellite imagery and \u201cprotect[ing] Allied space systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

It identified among other concerns this seemingly inevitable mention of its two global \u2013 and more than global \u2013 adversaries:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSpace is becoming more crowded and competitive, satellites are vulnerable to interference. Some countries, including Russia and China, have developed and tested a wide range of counter-space technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bloc\u2019s main military body, the Military Committee, appointed its two strategic commands \u2013 Allied Command Transformation and Allied Command Operations \u2013 to initiate plans to expand military activities into space by creating a NATO Space Working Group. To guarantee \u201cunfettered utilization of Space.\u201d From the North Atlantic to the Northern star.<\/p>\n

In 2019 NATO\u2019s top civilian body, the North Atlantic Council (consisting of the ambassadors of all NATO member states), approved the adoption of the NATO Overarching Space Policy. The Space Policy as it\u2019s now called was confirmed at a defense ministers\u2019 meeting in the same year.<\/p>\n

Having seventy members and partners on six continents is not enough to satisfy the military alliance. It has now added space to its ever-expanding mission.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Rick Rozoff has been involved in anti-war and anti-interventionist work in various capacities for forty years. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Coming to consciousness of the essential struggle of peace against war in the United States in the 1960s, I confess to having been afflicted with the prejudice that anti-war sentiment had been rare if at all existent in other ages and even in other nations. The Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico speaks in his <\/em>The New Science of the conceit of nations and the conceit of scholars; he may have added the conceit of the times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10 May 2021 – NATO officially declared space its newest operational domain, adding to its other four battlefields: air, land, sea and cyberspace. The thirty-nation military bloc is currently setting up a NATO Space Centre in Germany. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":185024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[91,1709],"class_list":["post-185022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","tag-nato","tag-space-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}