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  • The Military Ascent into Space: From Playground to Battleground: The New Uncertain Game in the Heavens

  • Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto
  • Journal:
    Netherlands International Law Review / Volume 52 / Issue 3 / December 2005
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 December 2005, pp. 461-488
    Print publication:
    December 2005

  • The mastery of outer space as the basis of integrated battleground platforms is fast becoming a reality. As the two Gulf Wars and the Kosovo military campaign made clear, space assets are decisive in battle planning and execution. The contemporary move towards weaponization of space and its intersection with international law forms the basis of this article. This article analyses the militarization and weaponization of space. It is premised on the fact that the active move to militarization and weaponization of outer space that exposes the deficit of the international law space law regime. The article highlights the fact that the international space law legal regime now has a new game in the making for which it is in many ways ill equipped to handle.