US Reevaluating Space Warfare Capabilities of China, Russia
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WAR ON TERRORISM FACES NFL Turkey begins deporting Kate Reinders’ new Ravens’ Jackson detained ISIS fighters; role takes her back makes another US national sent home to ‘High School’ case for MVP Page 5 Page 17 Back page Iranian underground lab boosts low-enriched uranium production » Page 2 stripes.com Volume 78, No. 149 ©SS 2019 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas US reevaluating SUICIDE CRISIS: AN OCCASIONAL SERIES space warfare capabilities of China, Russia BY TONY CAPACCIO Bloomberg The U.S. intelligence commu- nity is updating its assessment of space warfare capabilities of Russia and China as military commanders express concerns about advances in the adversar- ies’ ability to jam, ram or destroy satellites in orbit. Air Force Gen. John Hyten re- quested the National Intelligence Estimate before he left his prior command at the U.S. Strategic Command, and it “is being worked by the [intelligence community] at this time,” said Lt. Col. Christina Hoggatt, an Air Force spokeswom- an. Hyten is now the U.S.’ No. 2 military officer. The new U.S. Space Command will use the updated intelligence estimate “alongside current op- erations and critical information from our international, civil and commercial partnerships, to iden- tify and drive” future “training and acquisition requirements,” Hoggatt said. The actual and potential threats of space wars were used in part to justify establishing the Space Command, a new Space Develop- Spate of military suicides in S. Korea ment Agency and possibly a sixth service branch that would be called the Space Force. highlights need for more awareness Those concerns will be rein- forced this week by the congres- sionally mandated U.S.-China BY KIM GAMEL had not suffered any brain damage. But the Army’s Criminal Investigation Economic and Security Review Stars and Stripes eventually his heart failed. Command. Commission in its annual report “I was gearing up to take care of my son A family attorney confirmed that the CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea to be releasedThursday. the rest of his life. I was just in mommy eighth, Pvt. Courtney Shields, killed her- pc. Zachary Moore was drifting mode. I was like, ‘Let me just get him self on April 26 while she was home on The report concludes that into and out of consciousness as the China “views space as a criti- back,’ ” she said. “And that’s when I got a leave. CID referred questions about her ambulance raced him to a South knock on the door and they told me he had case to local authorities. cal U.S. military and economic Korean hospital after he tried to vulnerability and has fielded an S passed.” The number is not necessarily indica- kill himself. array of direct-ascent, cyber, Moore died Aug. 2, 2017, hours after tive of a trend, and suicide permeates all “Call my mom, call my mom,” the 23- he was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in aspects of society. But it provides a grim electromagnetic and co-orbital year-old signal support systems specialist counterspace weapons capable Uijeongbu from his barracks at Camp snapshot of an unprecedented crisis in the asked his friend, a fellow soldier. Hovey. of targeting nearly every class of military that has grown despite a concert- Thousands of miles away in Florida, He was one of at least eight 2nd Infan- U.S. space asset.” ed push and more than $1 billion to stop it. Jeanette Nazario answered the phone. try Division soldiers — ages 18 to 32 — “It may be difficult for the “The number of suicides we’ve had is “I was notified by his battle buddies who died by suicide in nearly three years, United States to deter Beijing definitely concerning,” said Capt. Joseph that he was in the hospital in critical con- from May 2016 to April 2019. from using these weapons due Dragonetti, the 2nd ID’s psychiatrist. dition, then they notified me when he was Stars and Stripes obtained the causes to China’s belief the U.S. has “Those are all lives lost and families that in stable condition,” she recalled. of death of seven of those soldiers from a greater vulnerability in space,” She became hopeful after a translator have had huge tragedies.” according to an advance copy. at the hospital said tests showed her son SEE SUICIDE ON PAGE 6 ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREA VILLARI/Stars and Stripes SEE SPACE ON PAGE 8 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, November 12, 2019 MIDEAST Underground lab producing more uranium in Iran BY MEHDI FATTAHI, growing criticism at home over AMIR VAHDAT the accord’s collapse. AND JON GAMBRELL Rouhani on Monday separately Associated Press urged Iran to stick with the deal, saying it could open up interna- TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is pro- tional arms sales for the Islamic ducing even more low-enriched Republic next year. uranium daily than previously Salehi told the AP in Tehran thought after resuming enrich- that the country is now producing ment at an underground labora- at least 12 pounds daily. That’s tory built in a mountain, the head compared with what Tehran had ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN/AP of the country’s nuclear program been producing — about 1 pound told The Associated Press on of low-enriched uranium per day. Concrete is poured for the base of a second nuclear power reactor at Bushehr plant, some 440 miles Monday. The increase in enrichment south of Tehran, Iran, on Sunday. Ali Akbar Salehi, of the Atomic comes from the inclusion of over Energy Organization of Iran, at- 1,000 centrifuges at Fordo, some enriched to 4.5% can be used at gram is for peaceful purposes but or sell our weapons to the world. tributed the rise to the work at 15 miles northeast of Qom, a Shi- the Bushehr nuclear power plant the West had pushed for the nu- This is one of the deal’s signifi- Fordo, a long-secret facility the ite holy city, Salehi said. Shielded — Iran’s only one of its kind. Iran clear deal over its concerns about cant impacts,” Rouhani said. West feared could be used to di- by the mountains, the facility also began to pour concrete into foun- the program. Under the deal, a United Na- vert and rapidly enrich uranium is ringed by anti-aircraft guns dations on Sunday for a second Meanwhile, Rouhani’s speech tions-imposed arms embargo on to weapons-grade levels. and other fortifications. It is reactor at Bushehr. on Monday in the city of Rafsan- Iran is slated to be lifted in Oc- Iran resumed uranium enrich- about the size of a football field, The biggest concern is that as jan in Iran’s southwest Kerman tober 2020, five years after the ment at Fordo as it also broke large enough to house 3,000 cen- Iran enriches more uranium over province was part of a provincial accord’s adoption. other limits imposed by the 2015 trifuges, but small and hardened time, it will begin to narrow the tour ahead of planned parlia- The end of the weapons em- nuclear deal that began to unrav- enough to lead U.S. officials to so-called “breakout period” that mentary elections in February. bargo, imposed by the United Na- el after President Donald Trump suspect it had a military purpose. Iran would need to have enough The day before, in Yazd, he faced tions, already worries the Trump unilaterally withdrew America “I believe (that) in total, 5.5 fissile material for a nuclear some heckling from a crowd of administration. The State Depart- from the accord over a year ago. kilograms is the daily volume of bomb — should it choose to build hard-liners despite announcing ment runs a countdown clock on Under the nuclear accord, Fordo uranium enrichment in Natanz one. Analysts had put that time at the discovery of a 53 billion-bar- its website to the time when Iran was supposed to be a research and Fordo,” Salehi told the AP, a year under the restrictions of rel oil field in the country. could be allowed to access the in- lab — and not used for uranium mentioning Iran’s other nuclear the 2015 nuclear deal. On Monday, he made a point ternational weapons market. enrichment. facility at Natanz, where over The United Nations nuclear to stress that “by continuing the The website also notes that Qa- Iran hopes to pressure Europe 5,000 centrifuges now spin. Sale- watchdog, the International nuclear deal, we will reach a huge ssem Soleimani, the sanctioned through these moves and get Eu- hi suggested the figure could go Atomic Energy Agency, was ex- political, defensive and security head of the paramilitary Revo- ropean nations to offer it a way to as high as 13 pounds a day. pected to release a quarterly goal.” lutionary Guard’s expeditionary sell its crude oil abroad despite Iran currently enriches urani- report about Iran’s program on “If we save the nuclear deal, Quds Force, would be able to American sanctions. However, um to up to 4.5%, far below weap- Monday. Iran’s arms embargo will be travel freely abroad if the mea- President Hassan Rouhani faces ons-grade levels of 90%. 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