Acknowledgements Contents Common Abbreviations Introduction Argument PART I: The Original Sin of Space TechnologyChapter 1: The Dawn of the Global Space Age The Thermonuclear Revolution U. S. and Soviet Missile Origins Hidden in Plain Sight: Militarized Space Original Sin and Empire Conclusion Chapter 2: Beyond Bipolarity From the Wreckage: European Decline and Integration Japan: Indigenous Rocketry and U. S. Influence China: Nuclear and Missile Primacy India: Economic Development and Military Latency Conclusion PART II: The Maturation of SpacepowerChapter 3: Applied Witchcraft and Technical Wizardry Seeing and Hearing from Orbit Imaging Beyond the Superpowers The Fires of War Conclusion Chapter 4: Tethers of Modernity Planetary Webs Spying on Space Guided by Navstars Conclusion PART III: Strategy in the Global Space AgeChapter 5: Spacepower at War The Road to the 'First Space War' A Revolution in Military Affairs? Russian and Chinese Modernization Entanglement and Responding to Spacepower Integration Conclusion Chapter 6: Arsenals for Space Warfare Space Weapons Terrestrially-based ASAT Weapons Space-based Weapons Conclusion Chapter 7: War on the Cosmic Coastline Deterrence and Space Arms Control The Banality of the Ultimate High Ground Commanding the Cosmic Coastline Conclusion Conclusions: Anarchy in the Global Space Age Bibliography Books Book chapters Journal Articles Reports, Documents, Primary Sources, Theses, Presentations News/Magazines/Websites.