"Space is a warfighting domain, not a collection of supporting activities. In conflict, space will be a contested environment. We are the military Service dedicated to fighting in it," Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman writes in a forward to the new Space Force Doctrine Document 1.
The interview signalled a rapprochement between Saltzman and the institute, following his Feb. 20 ban on engagement with Mitchell by Space Force personnel.
It's been a whirlwind of a year — and the defense establishment has plenty of thoughts on how it's unfolded and what might come next.
A recent memo, obtained by Breaking Defense, has raised concerns that inconsistencies with both joint doctrine and DoD budget organization could create confusion within combatant commands and Congress.
“We no longer regard information as a separate consideration or the sole purview of technical specialists,” the new ADP 3-13 says. “Instead, we view information as a resource that is integrated into operations” — from cyberwar to psyops, reconnaissance to deterrence, social media to camouflage.
Space Doctrine Publication 3.0, crafted by STARCOM, provides baseline definitions for offensive, defensive, and "mobility and logistics" ops.
"While important, a narrow focus on protecting space capabilities disregards how U.S. strategic competitors are preparing to use their own space capabilities to find, target, and attack forces operating in the terrestrial domains," Gen. Chance Saltzman wrote in an internal Commander's Note obtained by Breaking Defense.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
The intent is to generate conversation within the community and a more broad audience about potential threats and what the service can do to prepare for the future.
"This issue of classification and the challenge it presents to public discussion is ... part of the reason why we wrote this report. There's nothing in the public domain like this," says CSIS's Kaitlyn Johnson.
"Because military spacepower has the potential to be the difference between victory and defeat, it must be viewed with equal importance as military power in any other domain," the Spacepower Capstone Publication says.
"JADO requires changing how the United States Air Force thinks about and conducts operations," Air Force Chief of Staff Goldfein stresses in the announcement.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Are big, expensive vessels like amphibious ships and carriers too vulnerable in a long-range missile war with Russia or China?
WASHINGTON: Pentagon officials are drafting new policy that would officially recognize the electromagnetic spectrum as a “domain” of warfare, joining land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, Breaking Defense has learned. The designation would mark the biggest shift in Defense Department doctrine since cyberspace became a domain in 2006. With jamming, spoofing, radio, and radar all covered under […]
As budgets tighten and the wars wind down, the Army is struggling to institutionalize the hard-won cultural skills it learned in Afghanistan and Iraq — and to make the case for their continued relevance and resourcing to an administration whose new strategic guidance swears off counterinsurgency. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey himself recently touted […]