#SPACE COMMAND: Need more of everything for battlefield in orbit. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
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#SPACE COMMAND: Need more of everything for battlefield in orbit. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm John that with Henry Sakhowski, the Executive Director of Non-Brahoration Policy Education |
| 0:28.8 | Center. |
| 0:29.8 | We're debating the end of what we understand to be peace. |
| 0:34.0 | And we're looking now at a global conflict. |
| 0:37.0 | That's the London Times word, or the telegraphs word, not mine, global conflict. |
| 0:44.0 | So we come to Washington, General Stephen Whitting, commander of the U.S. Space Command, testifying on a on year day, April 29th, |
| 0:56.0 | Senate Armed Services Committee, |
| 0:58.0 | in other words, deadly serious. |
| 1:00.0 | In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Stephen Whitting, |
| 1:04.8 | commander of U.S. Space Command, warned that the U.S. |
| 1:08.2 | faces a, quote, window of vulnerability, end quote, over the next few years to defend critical space assets from |
| 1:15.9 | potential aggression. |
| 1:17.7 | Henry, you've anticipated this in a war game that you have conducted and we've spoken of before. It would appear that Space |
| 1:26.8 | Command is also watching now at what that war game left us, which is the understanding of vulnerability. |
| 1:35.0 | We also have the report that North Korea has now launched a reconnaissance satellite, |
| 1:40.0 | perhaps with technology transferred by Russ Cosmos after the friendly meeting between |
| 1:45.8 | Mr. Putin and Kim Jong-on in Vlad of Astok. |
| 1:50.0 | However, what I'm concerned about now is Space Command's answer. |
| 1:54.1 | Is there an answer to your knowledge, Henry? |
| 1:58.0 | Well, of course there's an answer. |
| 1:59.4 | I mean, the threats that we face now is the sort of North Korea and Iran to a very minor extent are now deploying space technologies that we thought |
| 2:21.4 | no one would ever get and that we had supremacy and at the end of the Cold War. |
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