Bleddyn Bowen

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Associate Professor | Astropolitics | Space Warfare | International Politics | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🚀🛰
Author of: 

Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space

War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Spacehttps://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/original-sin/
War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geooliticshttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-war-in-space.html
Personal Sitehttps://astropoliticsblog.wordpress.com
Today is the day we remember when the Americans relied on a Welsh poet to rally humanity save Earth from aliens.

"Original Sin achieves the feat of bringing a breath of fresh air to an expert community accustomed to operating in a vacuum, rehashing reductionist postures, while shaking up an academic or scientific community whose refusal of political relevance anchored in a solid idealism is too often synonymous with disconnection from the issues it claims to describe, explain and understand."

https://politique-etrangere.com/2023/07/03/original-sin-power-technology-and-war-in-outer-space/

Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space

Cette recension a été publiée dans le numéro d’été 2023 de Politique étrangère (n° 2/2023). Guilhem Penent propose une analyse de l’ouvrage de Bleddyn E. Bowen, Original Sin: Power, Tec…

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Yes the article is as bonkers as that front page splash.

‘Mr Prime Minister, we cannot allow a cosmic moon nuke gap!’

The Radio 5 Live episode of The Thick of It is possibly one of the best.
Is Twitter finally dead now?
@thomcheney it’s not working for me even though I haven’t looked at 600 tweets today 😆
Twitter is currently a DM client
@thomcheney it’s gotten bad enough I’m on my Mastodon again for the first time in months…
I'd wager that Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean military modernisation and expanding conventional strike capabilities (including the US) will be far more important for war planning and deterrence than a US FOBS could ever be.
And for a US FOBS, China is expanding all manner of military satellite systems, including infrared missile launch detection and space surveillance radars, as I explored in #OriginalSin