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Military potential is true for all materiel. Including DoD satellites.
> We will end up with a graveyard in space where fragments will make it difficult to continue any space activities
No, we won’t. Specific orbits will get trashed. And even then, only for a few years—LEO deörbits in months to years, the latter only for small things in high LEO.
Nope. All major militaries have had dedicated satcom for decades.
Source? The only solutions for orbital denial I know of are in GEO, and even then it’s cheaper to just shoot down birds as they go up.