Taking the Highest High Ground: Strategic Prepositioning of Counter Space Weapons and Impacts to Critical Infrastructure

It is July of 2024, but Americans are looking up at the sky much the same way Americans did in 1957 after the announcement of the Sputnik launch. On May 16, 2024, a rocket bound for low Earth orbit (LEO) lifted off the Plesetsk Cosmodrome just outside Moscow. By May 21st, Pentagon officials were making public statements about the potential that the payl…