A new report from the Mitchell Institute found that the U.S. lacks a clear framework for responding to hostile acts in space as China expands its counterspace capabilities. Workshop participants identified a key challenge: there's little consensus on where peaceful competition ends and outright conflict begins. According to SpaceNews, experts gathered at the institute struggled to define thresholds that could guide American military response to potential adversarial actions in the orbital domain. The findings suggest the Pentagon may need to develop more explicit protocols as space becomes increasingly contested.

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