For many years, my family was close to a university professor whose principle profession was psychology but who for several decdes devoted a substantial part of the rest of his time to work as a consultant on a super-secret Pentagon task work committee on “how to wage war in outer space.” He continued that long after retirement from teaching in the 1980’s.

Wasn’t so super-secret if I, as a teenager, knew about it, of course. Which brings me back to the secretiveness of Bush’s executive order. Without a doubt, as a nation we have been working on a number of outer space weapons, delivery vehicles, and strategies. Our allies and adversaries no doubt have better sources that tell them this than I had as a simple teenager. They had to know this was coming, de facto if not de jure.

The only ones kept in the dark were us, the citizens of the U.S.

Via Why Now? we find out that the Bush administration won’t rule out weaponizing space.
The US has adopted a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space and denying “adversaries” access there for hostile purposes.
The document – …