It began decades ago. There is already a space combat center. Lots of obviously classified activities, but space combat has been going on and will continue to go on.
I often wonder what replaced the early ASAT weapons carried by F-15 and similar. They were quietly dropped, no doubt to appease someone, but far too useful to just go away.
I bet USAF or USN has a project to orbit an empty robot reentry vehicle that can snatch an enemy satellite from orbit and bring it down intact.
I wonder if this is something Elon Musk is working on the qt. Might explain his deep pocket funding sources.