Satellites and Shadows: The Militarization of Space - Hardcover

Dorqan, Dr Emile

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9347436372 ISBN 13: 9789347436376

Publisher: Vij Books, 2026

Synopsis

When power moves off the map, the rules you rely on stop working. This is the quiet shift changing war, trade, and truth: the decisive infrastructure now circles above us.

This book explains how satellites became the backbone of navigation, finance, and command, and why control of orbit is fast becoming the new frontline. It decodes space militarization without hype, showing how dual-use satellites blur civilian and military aims, how anti-satellite weapons escalate risk, and how space law struggles to keep pace. Drawing on real cases, it maps orbital warfare from jamming to debris, and shows how the private space sector is reshaping public strategy through contracts and service terms. You will learn a practical lens for space deterrence and global defence strategy, and how to read constellations like critical infrastructure. For policymakers, operators, investors, and informed citizens, it offers clarity on satellite espionage and the emerging norms of space domain awareness.

If you want an accessible, rigorous guide to the battleground above your head, this is it: physics made legible, incentives laid bare, and choices evaluated by resilience rather than rhetoric.

About this title

About the Author

Emile Dorqan is a French aerospace historian and policy adviser who writes about how technology quietly reorganises power. After analysing programmes at the European Space Agency, he turned to the wider question: what happens to politics when our most important infrastructure orbits above law, borders, and public oversight? His work follows the full chain, from launch pads and ground stations to boardrooms and ministries, translating specialist language into civic understanding. Raised on tales of early balloonists crossing the Channel, he sees a through-line from fragile fabric to orbital mesh: every leap in altitude rewrites what states can do, and what they must restrain. He writes to equip readers with calm, usable frameworks for an era when satellites decide both convenience and catastrophe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vij Books
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9347436372
• ISBN 13: 9789347436376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294