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The next big war may be fought in space.

As the Pentagon is gearing up for a future celestial conflict, so are our chief adversaries, China and Russia. Here’s why "Star Wars" is no longer merely a topic of science fiction. The best way to avoid space warfare is to be ready for it.

On Dec. 28, Elon Musk’s Space X launched into space the Pentagon’s highly secretive X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, an unmanned reusable robotic spacecraft operated by the Air Force, in collaboration with Space Force. Most details about the Boeing X-37B’s payload and missions are top secret, and even its orbital regime is classified.

Former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson revealed in 2019, however, that X-37B can change its orbit "when it’s close enough to the atmosphere." She boasted that the spacecraft can catch our adversaries off guard because the maneuver takes place "on the far side of the Earth from our adversaries," so they don’t know "where it's going to come up next" and "that drives them nuts."

During my service in the Defense Intelligence Agency, I specialized in foreign space doctrines and operations and participated in war games simulating a conflict in space. I can attest that China and Russia consider the X-37B a counter-space weapons platform and are obsessed with trying to gain insights into its capabilities. Both have space warfare programs, targeting their main perceived enemy, the United States of America.

SPACE FORCE, NEWEST BRANCH OF US MILITARY, TO STAND UP NEW SQUADRONS TO ADDRESS GROWING THREATS

The combination of China's space station lab module Mengtian and a Long March 5B Y4 carrier rocket is ready for launch on the launch tower at the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Oct. 31, 2022 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. Whole-system testing for the upcoming launch of China's space station Mengtian lab module was conducted on Saturday. (Photo by Hou Yu/China News Service via Getty Images)

It is no coincidence that two weeks prior to the X-37B’s launch, on Dec. 14, China sent up to the skies an enigmatic spaceplane of its own, "Shenlong" (Divine........

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