This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bats with Henry Sikalski. He is the

executive director of the Nonproliferation policy education center

the document that we're looking to right now China waging war in space is available

online on Henry's site you can read it through and we come to the executive summary lessons learned. In other words there were

options for both teams. China was the aggressor. What is to be done was the

response from the US team in conjunction with its allies that fragmented.

So lessons learned.

This is back to 2022 away from the future.

Henry, the Chinese threat now is considerable and the four

takeaways consider this. U.S. and its space allies have to defend against the

immediate Chinese co-orbital and a satellite

threats. Does that exist now? Does Space Command talk about that Henry?

Well it talks about it quite a lot and it wants to do more. Part of the challenge is getting the acquisition

procedures and the secrecy, excessive secrecy, cleared out so that they can make the kinds of devices

that they need and get them quickly, more quickly than they would otherwise get.

This is a big hurdle.

So yeah, they're talking about it.

I don't think it's for a lack of clarity about the problem

or what needs to be done.

It's just, you know, we can't get out. the problem. or what needs to be done.

It's just, you know, we can't get out of our own way quickly enough.

I think they're making, you know, headway and to the credit of the industry, the aerospace satellite industry and aerospace industry,

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