The second lesson to remember from the development of air power is that countermeasures to any new technology are actively pursued by those nations threatened by the new technology. “Throughout the ages, it has been an iron law of weapons development for new concepts to be negated eventually by offsetting countermeasures.”11 The invention of radar by Great Britain to detect incoming German aircraft during WWII provides just one example. If space assets used for war are seen as threatening to a nation, that nation, or a coalition of similarly threatened nations, will seek to counter it.

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Liller, Dwayne. "America Needs Space." High Frontier Journal. Vol. 2, No. 1 (September 2005): 34-37. [ 3 quotes ] [ page 35 ]