Here's the latest Fred Kaplan column. I don't know what to make of all this and apparently no one does…
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink declared this week that the United States has weapons orbiting in outer space. It was the first time a U.S. official has publicly acknowledged this fact. The questions, which went unaddressed, are what sorts of weapons they are, why he's announcing this now, and — most important — what it all means for the broader issues of war and peace.
Chinese and Russian spokespeople denounced Meink's speech as a step toward "war in outer space." This was not only predictable but also a sick joke. Both of those countries have been launching, orbiting, and testing weapons in space — devices designed to disable or destroy U.S. satellites — for more than a decade, to a degree and with a tactical sophistication that far outpaces anything we have done. And they have been doing this without publicly declaring anything.
Just another reason we'd all be safer with someone a lot saner in the White House.