Summary The United States' post-Cold War security strategy is moving it closer to placing weapons in outer space. Washington will continue to resist international efforts to limit military operations in space. The next step for America's competitors will be to try to neutralize U.S. dominance through a series of high- and low-tech anti-satellite weapons. Analysis The United States has signaled in some of the clearest terms yet that it intends to deploy space weapons. "Eventually we're going to have to have capabilities to take things out in orbit," U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan told the Defense Writers Group in Washington Aug.1. U.S. military space programs will raise the ire of the international community and arms control advocates, but Washington will continue to resist efforts to ban space weapons.