Although the Obama administration promises [2]to "restore American leadership on space issues, seeking a worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites," a soon-to-be-released analysis by Taxpayers for Common Sense [3](TCS) reveals a rapidly growing portion of U.S. military space spending does concentrate on offensive space control programs. Victoria Samson [4]of the Ploughshares-funded Center for Defense Information [5]writes, “When doctrines collide, there is an easy way to see where policy is headed: Follow the money. Space spending needs guidance from a national security space strategy to measure success.... Applying discipline to the space budget and bringing spending in line with policy should be the second step in Obama's plan.”
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/463
[2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/defense/
[3] http://www.taxpayer.net/
[4] http://ploughshares.org/expert/216
[5] http://www.cdi.org/
[6] http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive09/samsonoped_0316.html