{"id":127824,"date":"2021-09-18T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/u-s-generals-planning-for-a-space-war-they-see-as-all-but-inevitable"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:23:24","slug":"u-s-generals-planning-for-a-space-war-they-see-as-all-but-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/u-s-generals-planning-for-a-space-war-they-see-as-all-but-inevitable","title":{"rendered":"U.S. generals planning for a space war they see as all but inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-generals-planning-for-a-space-war-they-see-as-all-but-inevitable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ship in the Pacific Ocean carrying a high-power laser takes aim at a U.S. spy satellite, blinding its sensors and denying the United States critical eyes in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>This is one scenario that military officials and civilian leaders fear could lead to escalation and wider conflict as rival nations like China and Russia step up development and deployments of anti-satellite weapons.<\/p>\n<p>If a satellite came under attack, depending on the circumstances, \u201cthe appropriate measures can be taken,\u201d said Lt. Gen. John Shaw, deputy commander of U.S. Space Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ship in the Pacific Ocean carrying a high-power laser takes aim at a U.S. spy satellite, blinding its sensors and denying the United States critical eyes in the sky. This is one scenario that military officials and civilian leaders fear could lead to escalation and wider conflict as rival nations like China and Russia [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}