Top General Says US ‘Must Be Prepared For Any Chinese Aggression In Space’

Wednesday, February 1, 2017
By Paul Martin

ANDREW FOLLETT
DailyCaller.com
02/01/2017

The U.S. must be prepared to deal with Chinese aggression in space, said U.S. Strategic Command head Gen. John Hyten.

The U.S. military is dependent on satellites that are vulnerable to Chinese weapons, according to Hyten. He previously served as the leader of Air Force Space Command from 2014 to 2016 and has held numerous space related assignments over his 36 year-long military career.

“In the not-too-distant future, they [China] will be able to use that capability to threaten every spacecraft we have in space,” Hyten said in a Department of Defense press release. “We have to prevent that, and the best way to prevent war is to be prepared for war. So the United States is going to do that, and we’re going to make sure that everybody knows we’re prepared for war.”

The U.S. military uses satellites for navigation, communications, weather monitoring, ground surveillance, spying and missile defense. The threat against satellites has been obscured in today’s asymmetric warfare against terror cells that lack the ability to target U.S. space assets, according to a report published in August by the U.S. National Academies.

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