S8 Ep815: 14. Space Warfare and Middle East Missile Defense Guest: Henry Sokolski Henry Sokolski warns of China's development of satellites capable of "stealing" others and notes the UAE's new reliance on Israeli Iron Dome technology for defense against increasing
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
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| 0:57.7 | these last years, Henry acquaints me with the fact that he's run one, two, three war games |
| 1:04.1 | involving low earth orbit. The reason I pay attention to this is that recently a big piece |
| 1:10.4 | in the Wall Street Journal, I believe, |
| 1:13.2 | or the Financial Times, one of the dignified papers, about China preparing for space war |
| 1:19.1 | by developing satellites that not only can intercept but can embrace, in other words, steal another satellite. |
| 1:26.8 | And they've also practiced what the article points to the opinion of dogfighting in space, |
| 1:33.5 | satellite to satellite. |
| 1:35.4 | What this means is the communication system that you need in wartime and peacetime can be shredded |
| 1:42.3 | by a sneak attack, I believe. |
| 1:44.8 | But I go to the man who has run these war games because we're going to conjoin this with |
| 1:50.3 | what we think is the mission for the Golden Dome. |
| 1:54.0 | Now and again, they mention space-based interceptor systems. |
| 1:58.3 | Can we presume, Henry, that the Golden Dome will include dog-fighting |
| 2:02.6 | satellites? Well, it's a good question. Will it? You got to protect, perhaps, these interceptor |
| 2:12.4 | units that the Golden Dome will have in low Earth orbit. Will they self-protect? Will they have, |
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