There is no arms race in the Lagrange Points of the Earth-moon system. I think this is a fantasy made up by bored academics and think-tank people, inventing non

There is no arms race in the Lagrange Points of the Earth-moon system. I think this is a fantasy made up by bored academics and think-tank people, inventing nonexistent crises because they don't have enough real ones in their fields. There's no military value to those orbits (or please think up one and defend it!) These are much farther away than orbits people are actually using, and far worse (by inverse-square laws) for any purpose involving things on Earth—communications, or observation. And it's outright risible to suggest the *United States* would want national security-critical communications relays in that sad orbit, when we just obtained a constellation of literally tens of thousands in LEO. Starlink is infinitely more capable than anything you could imagine placing in a Lagrange point. I suspect the real arms race is between anti-satellite weapons and giant, survivable constellations of cheap unit costs, like Starlink. US has a massive head start. Putting expensive single points of failure in an orbit like L2 is a bad doctrine: that's a sitting duck at the outbreak of a potential war. China quite possibly has already deployed missiles intended to defeat this: they tested what the US thinks were anti-geosynchronous satellite weapons, more than a decade ago [0]. L2 orbits are only trivial amounts of energy more than geosynchronous (cost to intercept–not orbit-match). [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-space-report-idUSBREA2G1Q320140317/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-space-report-idUSBR...