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A theater of war can be defined as the entire land, sea, and air area that is involved in war operations. A part of military strategy is to evaluate the theater of war for accessibility, affordability, and appropriateness for military operations. Outer space is a dangerous and unforgiving environment.
“War and space exploration are alternative uses of the assertive, exploratory energies that are so characteristic of human beings. They may also be mutually exclusive because if one occurs on a massive scale, the other probably will not”
–Frank White, The Overview Effect, 1981
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Dawson, L. (2018). The Environment of Space as a Theater of War. In: War in Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93052-7_3
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