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Resource and force in the final frontier – examining the rules governing exploration and weapons in space
In my first article in this three-part series, I explored the legality behind the United States government’s announcement last month that it possessed controlled, space-based weaponry deployed in its operational sphere stretching from “the seabed to cislunar space.” We used the 1966 Outer Space Treaty...
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The dehumanization engine – it’s getting personal
Once individual cognition begins to atrophy, the cultural effects expand outward. What starts as the personal offloading of thought morphs into a societal conversion...
The oil system that worked – until February 2022 (Part 1...
Figure 1 Before February 2022, the world’s oil system worked the way most people assumed it always would: Russia sent crude and diesel to Europe,...
Assessing the legality of deployed U.S. space weapons within existing treaties
Figure 1: Graphic c/o Grok. Last week’s statement by General Dan Caine, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, that “today’s modern battlefield...