The new report cautions the Space Force against an “over reliance” on commercial capabilities and worries that Space Force is not concentrating enough on the need to win future space conflicts not simply “endure” attacks.
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“You are warfighters, whether you carry a gun or not,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told Guardians on Dec. 10. “You are trained and expected to carry out offensive and defensive actions against military forces of other countries.”
By Theresa Hitchens
US Space Command has been clamoring for new technology to enable “dynamic space operations,” which include “sustained” maneuvering that doesn’t eat up fuel to allow US military spacecraft and satellites to outrun suspect adversary satellites — or potentially be able to chase those suspect birds down both to assess any threats and possibly take action to neutralize them.
By Theresa Hitchens
NATO’s planning directorate is creating war games for space activities to work out national contributions, including for offensive capabilities that require allied consensus for use in a conflict.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space & Missile Defense Command has been pushing to make space a formal “military occupation specialty” for enlisted personnel wishing to specialize, and has submitted a proposal to that effort to Army personnel leaders to that effect.
By Theresa Hitchens
The new version of Joint Publication 3-14 explains that “offensive and defensive space operations” are supported primarily by “direct capabilities” — that is, “fires that impact an adversary.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The unclassified strategy communicates “our commitment to protect the Joint Force from adversary hostile uses of space,” said DoD Space Policy czar John Plumb.
By Theresa Hitchens
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“The phrase in, from, and to space is a direct reference to the core functions of the Space Force. Guardians secure our Nation’s interests in space through space superiority activities that protect the Joint Force and the Nation from space and counterspace threats,” wrote Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman in a memo obtained by Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The prospects for complete success in deterrence of hostile attacks on space assets, particularly reversible, nondestructive attacks, are limited,” the RAND study cautions.
By Theresa Hitchens
Space Doctrine Publication 3.0, crafted by STARCOM, provides baseline definitions for offensive, defensive, and “mobility and logistics” ops.
By Theresa Hitchens
“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.
By Theresa Hitchens
America’s space operators need to “get to the point of how do we responsibly… deter conflict that nobody wants to see, but if we do see it, demonstrate our ability to win?” said Maj. Gen. David Miller.
By Theresa Hitchens “I expect that by the end of my tenure, if I make it all the way to [2026], that you’re going to see a substantial on-orbit capability that allows us to compete in full-spectrum operations,” Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman said today.
By Aaron Mehta
“There are hard kill and soft kill capabilities, if you will, that we’re funding,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said with regards to offensive space capabilities, but none that would created dangerous space debris.
By Theresa Hitchens
