Stephen Biddle (and coauthors Ivan Oelrich and Paul van Hooft) recently had an article published in the Journal of Strategic Studies titled “Anti-Satellite Warfare, Proliferated Satellites, and the Future of Space-Based Military Surveillance.”

The article asks whether proliferated satellites will enable a transparent battlefield in a way that might transform continental warfare, and argues that they will not – if land forces adapt by deploying ground-based jamming and dazzling technologies. The paper assesses the measure-countermeasure interaction for these technologies in a sustained competition, concludes that non-kinetic anti-satellite technologies will enjoy a systematic advantage in this competition if appropriately employed, and sketches some of the requirements for effective employment. 

You can read the article online here.