Space forces - armies of the future

This is a site dedicated entirely to the long-term future of space forces. The reference timeframe is starting 50 years from now - around 2050 - and stops 150 years into the future - roughly at the middle of the 23rd century.

While based on past and current developments in the space-related military organizations and aerospace industry around the world this is not intended in any way to address short and medium term perspective. More clearly this is in no way intended to have the immediacy and urgency of happening-tomorrow of the real world but is not in any way a fantasy or Sci-Fi site being a highly speculative site about the long-term future of the military space forces. As such this is is a site for the enthusiasts of space, strategy, military technology and deep future, not in the fantasy land of the next thousands of years that are almost impenetrable but to the very limit and slightly beyond of what is already visible about the closer future, from what history is teaching and the present is already showing.

A couple of fundamental assumptions/principles for this projection

1. Space expansion is highly likely to happen on a massive scale on long term. In the next 50 to 150 years massive expansion in space will became a (geo)political, economic, scientific, technological and cultural reality.

2. Conflicts and war will be a part of the space expansion process. They are still a significant part of the current human paradigm and will be most likely for the next couple of centuries. Everybody hopes for long lasting peace but the historical reality of humankind was always different. While we want to remain optimistic about the future and see only international cooperation and harmony, this is exclusively focusing on the contrarian hypothesis: the possibility of conflict and war in space will trigger a vast long-term development of space armed forces of all major powers /nations.

3. While no self-respectable expert would venture projections on technology, strategy and policy on longer periods than 30 years, there is always the example of extraordinary visionaries like Jules Verne that described with 120 years before the main principles and the technology behind sending people to Moon, or Isaac Asimov that realized with more than half a century the importance and evolution of robotics. This is a vision about an undesirable but definitely posible future that will see a continuation of a considerable military structure in space.

Purpose of this blog

Based on these assumptions the main purpose of this site can be defined as an attempt to prevision and extrapolate what it is possible and even probable in the next half to a couple of centuries in the area of space forces based on existing realities, without getting lost in useless details or endless debates, and not by getting in an entirely fantastic (utopian) construct but rather in a convincing manner about a possible future reality with similarities and roots in the current reality.

Questions that the site is focusing on

1. What type of technologies is more likely to rise in half a century for military use in space such as propulsion, weapons, communications, life-sustaining systems, robots, automatisation, communications, energy sources, Artificial Intelligence?

2. What type of structure, concepts, doctrines, terminology will space forces have, e.g. space marines, space interceptors, outposts, bases?

3. What type of strategic concepts and areas will emerge for space: Earth proximity (orbits), Moon, Mars, other areas of interest, lines of communications?

4. What countries, alliances where most likely to have space forces? What type of profile, doctrine, strategy, structure will these forces have based on current reality and recent past (modern history)?

5. What kind of scenarios can be imagined for possible conflict? What will constitute triggers and what kind of strategies and tactics can be imagined based on the hypothetical profiles of the countries or alliances involved?