Pentagon Starts Space War Training

According to a report from the Pentagon's testing and evaluation office, the Defense Department wants to "target an adversary's space capability by using a variety of permanent and/or reversible means to achieve five possible effects: deception, disruption, denial, degradation and destruction..."

Pentagon Exercises Focus on Space Control

Space control is military jargon for the ability to ensure one's own access to satellite capabilities while denying space-based services to adversaries. It encompasses both defensive measures designed to protect satellites as well as what the Pentagon refers to as negation -- measures to counter or destroy enemy satellite capabilities.