Jim Oberg says that too many people are hyperventilating over space weapons.

I'm only hyperventilating 'cause there's not enough of ours up there.

using it to break things in orbit never made much military sense, then or now or in the foreseeable future

Huh? Tell me again how degrading our enemies ability to communicate or perform reconnaisance - and prevent them from doing the same to us - doesn't make much military sense?

these self-serving fear mongers may actually lead to the creation of something well worth fearing: the arming of a new battleground, out in space.

Considering how much the US depends on space assets for it's warfighting capability, this idea of a space battleground being 'well worth fearing' is at best, Pollyanna-ish. Our not developing and deploying weapons is hardly a way to halt others from doing what we might refuse to.

“soldier-astronauts” aboard militarized Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle vehicles.

Sigh. A guy can dream, right?

U.S. “death stars” hovering over target countries promising swift strikes from space

Tease.

Nor is a space rendezvous robot, such as those under development by half a dozen nations and commercial consortia, a “space weapon”...plenty of productive peaceful rationales for these vehicles exist, from refueling to repair to resupply, and they are going to be deployed in large numbers in coming years.

Were I in charge of a nation's space assets, I'd be worried as hell about those. It's not a 'space weapon' - until one detonates near one of my satellites.