PIPPA NORMAN
Just before U.S. forces invaded the home of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday morning, the lights in the country’s capital city, Caracas, went dark.
This was one of several non-kinetic effects, or non-physical modes of warfare such as cyber and space, that the U.S. military employed in an overnight strike to capture Mr. Maduro and his wife at their compound.
It’s also an example of the growing role of space-based assets in defence, and the willingness of major military powers to use tools such as satellites to disrupt or disable the critical infrastructure of their adversaries.
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