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The War Above: Can We Keep Space from Becoming a Battlefield?

Frontiers are often the site of both mystery and contestation, and humanity’s final frontier is no different. The hope that space would be preserved as shared for all, depoliticised and uncommercialised, has inevitably given way to a very different reality. National governments feel it increasingly necessary to define space strategies; private companies, not state ventures, are in the vanguard of exploration and exploitation, turning the ineffable into the saleable; and the competition and inequality of terra firma is being replicated in the heavens. Yet even amid this new space race, the fundamental alien-ness of space remains: Where does humanity fit in a domain where hot-blooded national interests must yield to the cold imperatives of physics, and survival is even more dependent on cooperation? This intimate conversation examines space as a strategic domain, as common property, and whether human leadership can ever match the scale of the cosmos. Why is space now seen as a strategic domain? How are states and militaries creating new capabilities, and how are they challenging each other on this final frontier? How can nations with advanced space capabilities cooperate in an era of strategic competition to ensure a stable, secure, and sustainable space environment for all? How is space being privatised, challenging its “commons” nature, and does this now challenge the notion of the sovereign itself? Can the growth of private enterprise in space paradoxically constrain its militarisation, or are these two processes intertwined? Speakers: General Stephen N. Whiting, Commander, U.S. Space Command, United States of America Moderator: Harsh V Pant, Vice President, Observer Research Foundation, India #geopolitics #india #globalsouth #foreignpolicy #space #spaceexploration #nasa #isro #raisina2026