Space Force: BUSTED! (Patreon)

‘Space is a war fighting domain’ –Donald Trump

Errr, no, not really. It all boils down to orbital velocity is comparable to a railgun on steroids. Putting that much energy into anything without destroying it is very difficult! It also turns out that NOTHING is bulletproof at this sort of velocity. In this sense satellites cannot be defended. Equally, a large nuke a few hundred miles up fills up the Van Allen belts with high energy protons and electrons which are very bad for the health of any humans or space craft that get caught in them. 

The crazy thing is though that all this has been known for decades!... Space is most certainly NOT a war fighting domain!