Most people think militarizing space with weapons is prohibited by international treaties. That is false. Only nuclear weapons are banned from space. MOB massive conventional bombs in space? Legal. Kinetic bombs (which can be every bit as powerful as nuclear weapons)? Legal. Lasers? Legal. Weapons that emit basically death rays (gamma)? Legal. Sterilizing radioactive rays to sterilize a country's people? Legal. Even means to push meteorites or asteroids on a specific collision point on earth? Legal. Just an FYI maybe particularly relevant as Congress just overwhelming voted to eliminate the president as commander-in-chief as the rule to instead turning decisions to NOT do war over to the Pentagon instead - first time in USA history the military has not been under command of the president and civilian elected leadership. Only the Pentagon can end or even just reduce foreign war. No American military personnel can ever come home without permission of the Pentagon. They could have continued the Vietnam war to this day, like the perpetual war in Afghanistan they just voted to make perpetual. The next world war may be closer than you may think. Why not? Every war has been extremely profitable to the rich, fantastic for promoting lower officers to high paying colonels, generals and admirals, and equate to huge budgets, staffing and power to all "intelligence agencies" and the Pentagon. Even if the country totally destroyed by war, war still was exorbitantly profitable. The richest corporations in Germany and Japan now? The same companies that made war materials, though the population decimated. WW1 was nothing but an unthinkably evil for-profit slaughter. The USA will be at war forever - until we are ultimately defeated. But the international rich have no reason to care. The result of the USA being destroyed in war would be massively profitable to them.
Nothing in this entire post is remotely true.. The actual fighting of modern wars is not very profitable. Because the profit margins on actual military operations is rather low. The real money is in "procurement" That is actually purchasing new weapons (tanks, planes, ships). Procurement suffers while an actual modern war is being fought.
I would think that keeping a MOAB in near-orbit space for ready use would be technologically challenging, really expensive, and fraught with peril.
Procurement drops dramatically during a modern war because the money has to go for "operations". Fuel, spare parts, ammunition (none of which are very profitable). And what makes you think "contracting" is overaly profitable? Before you start talking about how much contractors get paid as opposed to regular soldiers remember that regular members of the military get a vast number of things provided for free that contractors do not get.
