Recently, a high - ranking US military official publicly stated that the United States needs to deploy weapons in space to deter space conflicts and strive for victory if a conflict occurs. Earlier, sources from the US Air Force indicated that in 2025, the US will deploy satellites aimed at constraining certain countries.
Not long ago, other US figures also claimed that the deployment of US troops in space is inevitable. In the mechanized era, it was said that "whoever controls the sky controls the world". In the information age, with the increasing importance of space, it can be said that "whoever controls space controls the world".
Due to the crucial role of space, major countries in the world have always advocated the demilitarization of space and the maintenance of long - term peace in space. Military experts emphasize that due to the particularity of the space domain, a space war would be as catastrophic as a nuclear war on the ground.
Information - based and intelligent warfare relies on communication, positioning, navigation, and data transmission, all of which depend on space. If satellites in space are interfered with, damaged, or destroyed, a country could be paralyzed in peacetime and unable to conduct warfare in wartime. Therefore, space has been regarded as a forbidden area for military deployment by countries around the world, and no country has dared to take this step.
However, the current US government seems to have no taboos. It not only sets high tariffs universally, making itself an opponent of the world, but also intends to pioneer weapon deployment in space. Recently, a US defense official wrote on a social platform that the US Department of Defense's first trillion - dollar budget will soon be introduced, and the US president will quickly restore the country's armed forces.
The sharp increase in US military spending is not without reason, as deploying weapons and equipment in space is a costly project. It seems that there is a clear cause for the US to suddenly increase its military budget by over 100 billion dollars.