Black‑Market Satellites Enable Battlefields

Consumer satellite terminals for broadband constellations are now a dual‑use commodity: they can be bought, diverted, and fitted to drones or other platforms by state and non‑state forces. That reality weakens the effectiveness of platform‑level access controls and forces nations to rethink sanctions, export controls, and battlefield comms architectures. — If mass‑market satellite hardware is readily diverted to combatants, policymakers must redesign export enforcement, military procurement, and information‑resilience strategies around inevitable, accessible space‑based comms.