U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

And why should we believe this?

Edit: The "space force" needs to justify its existence, and this is a way for them to do it. Why haven't we heard about this before?

Why not?

China and Russia are ramping up on military presence, maneuvers, and armament. Our top businesses are constantly under attack by nation state actors. I've witnessed a few attacks directly.

I'd be willing to bet that there will be some action taken in Ukraine and Taiwan within the decade, possibly simultaneously.

Because in a Taiwan scenario, China almost certainly would attack US Satellites.

And vice versa: USA would want to stop Chinese Satellites, so that they are blind to the movement of our carriers.

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Frankly, I'd expect that the Space Force is already conducting testing-level operations against our opponent's satellites.

From temporary blindness (this laser-thing they're talking about), to permanent disablement (missile, like Russia's test). Maybe the US isn't so gaudy to publicly create space debris like Russia, but I'm sure we have weapons in development that can do the same thing.

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> Edit: The "space force" needs to justify its existence, and this is a way for them to do it. Why haven't we heard about this before?

"Space Force" always existed. Or do you think that the US Army doesn't use GPS or Spy Satellites?

The issue with before, is that we used to have a Space-component for US Army. Then a 2nd space-component in the US Navy. Then a 3rd space-component in the US Marines. Finally, we have a 4th space-component in the US Air Force.

This was stupid. We removed the space-elements in our 4 branches and combined them into a singular 5th branch. Instead of redundantly creating 4 different space branches subservient to 4 different organizations, we can have one branch focus on the space stuff, and the other 4 branches asking the 5th guy for support as needed.

If anything, Space Force is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper than the stupid organization we had before.

... didn't we just have a Russian ASAT test that had ISS astronauts sheltering in place? Is this that hard to believe?

my understanding was that trump created the space force to have some defense from the aliens in case Oumuamua came back, was i misled?