How would be wage war in space?

Just your opinions about Space Warfare. It would be crude in the beginning... maybe with few machineguns and some guided missiles... but maybe the war would turn out to use lasers, beam weapons, and small space fighters with gigantic battleships... and then smaller scale weapons, such as advance fighters and humanoid robots... What do you think?

Originally posted by pinguin Well Space Warfare is a pretty fantasious business. Since the middle of the 20th century science ficcion has show space battles copied from the sea battles of the second world war: with lasers replacing guns, big crusiers, force field and all that stuff. But those things will harly ever happen because:   (1) If you have a war between two planets, you could easily destroy the surface of one of them sending a robot probe that shower it with a thin amount of antimatter . No need of big fleets for doing that.   (2) If you are in empty space you can detect a ship from mercury to neptune. You will inmediately send your beams to destroy it and the other guys won't even notice they are in war.   (3) Space structures and cities are as fragile as the surface of earth. A hit and that is it. No force field could deffend them.   (4) No surface armies are practical when you can kill all the guys, together with tanks, from automatic firing platforms from space, in minutes.   So, I am afraid all that Flash Gordon idea of Space Warfare kid's stuff, as unlikely as converting a wooden puppet in a boy (Pinocchio) or to fly in a Persian carpet.   Pinguin

There are already missiles and lasers functional right now today that can destroy sattelites in space. Also some sattelites can be modified to become "suicide" sattelites by changing course to intercept target sattelites. China has a very active anti-sattelite space warfare program and I am sure russia and the US must as well. I guess that can qualify as space warfare.