those fearing the weaponization of space could find hope in veronica obama's election ogata tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending cut investments in other proven missile defense systems will not weaponized space. as soon as he took office the white house announced that it would be seeking a worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites. however it proved difficult to change decades of entrenched military policy and programs to weaponize space. history suggests that nations do not voluntarily disarm they disarm because they're defeated or they make small adjustments in the way they buy and build and deploy their weapons but no superpower says you know it would be better if we were weaker i don't recall that ever happening. obama went on to allocate billions of dollars for a full range of space control systems including a program called offensive counter space. the pentagon define this new program as offensive measures to disrupt. degrade or destroy any adverse or is peacekeeper abilities. yet. the air force academy in colorado springs for the doctr