U.S. Security does not Depend on Deployment of Anti-Satellite Weapons (2730)

While the issue of whether there is a threat to U.S. space assets is open to debate, the response would not be to develop anti-satellite weapons. U.S. anti-satellite weapons would not dissuade our adversaries from developing their own because the U.S. has the most to lose in outer space. It would be better for the U.S. to focus its space control strategy on improving passive defenses for its existing satellites and building redundancy into its space-dependent systems. Finally, the U.S. can always rely on conventional attacks against the ground-based components of threatening systems.

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