The risks of weaponizing space for United States national security far outweigh any gains. There are no credible spacepower threats to U.S. space hegemony in the near-term and any deployment or testing of space weapons would risk many of the advantages the U.S. currently enjoys.
There is no credible threat to U.S. space assets from either rogue state adversaries or terrorist groups.
There is no reason to believe that the weaponization of space is inevitable.
Space is not a critical center of gravity because many of the functions currently performed by existing space assets could be performed by ground-based or near-space technologies.
There is no significant or credible threat from foreign space assets to U.S. security.
If the U.S. weaponizes outer space, it will damage its economy, its security, and its standing in the international community.
The international spacefaring community would benefit from a new agreement to regulate the development and deployment of space weapons.
The weaponization of space would not realize all of the advantages that proponents claim.