International Humanitarian Law and Military to Take Advantage of the Space Beyond the Atmosphere

Abstract

During Persian Gulf war (1990), space assets played a valuable role and their usefulness was revealed for the first time. Space technology creates an infrastructure that helps military strategies. It helped a lot in some battles such a Afghanistan, Siberia and Cosovo war.In this article we are going to explain the existing rules on international humanitarian law and other rules and have some recommendations to protect outer space from military threats.

Keywords

• outer space
• humanitarian law
• space war
• militarization of space