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 | DETERRENCE AND FIRST-STRIKE STABILITY IN SPACE: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT By Forrest E. Morgan
Space stability is a fundamental U.S. national security interest. Unfortunately, that stability may be eroding. Since the end of the Cold War,
U.S. military forces have repeatedly demonstrated their dominance in
conventional warfare, and future enemies will be well aware that the
dramatic warfighting advantage that U.S. forces possess is largely
the result of support from space. With a growing number of states
acquiring the ability to degrade or destroy U.S. ...Read more > | 81 Pages 377.51 KB |
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 | A NEED FOR SPEED? By Benjamin Goirigolzarri
The study of warfare and its theory development have uncovered several preeminent
principles that drive universal efforts in pursuit of military supremacy. Two of those
fundamentals are the enduring pursuit of technological advance to generate superiority over an
enemy and the securing of the high ground to enable strategic surveillance and intelligence.
These two tenets of warfare quickly, naturally, and perhaps unknowingly converged as man
turned its eyes to ...Read more > | 103 Pages 1.49 MB |
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 | HOSTILE SOCIAL MANIPULATION: PRESENT REALITIES AND EMERGING TRENDS By Michael J. Mazarr et al.
The role of information warfare in global strategic competition has
become much more apparent in recent years. Today’s practitioners of
what this report terms hostile social manipulation employ targeted social
media campaigns, sophisticated forgeries, cyberbullying and harassment of individuals, distribution of rumors and conspiracy theories,
and other tools and approaches to cause damage to the target ...Read more > | 303 Pages 2.02 MB |
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 | A SEPATATE SPACE: CREATING A MILITARY SERVICE FOR SPACE By Michael Spirtas et al.
The U.S. government has launched a Space Force with the congressional passage and
presidential signature of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
On February 19, 2019, President Donald J. Trump signed a directive ordering the
Department of Defense to submit a legislative proposal for the establishment of the
U.S. Space Force within the Department of the Air Force as a sixth branch of the
armed forces, and Congress has now acted to create the ...Read more > | 194 Pages 2.32 MB |
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 | THE CREATION OF THE PLA STRATEGIC SUPPORT FORCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINESE MILITARY SPACE OPERATIONS By Kevin L. Pollpeter, Michael S. Chase, Eric Heginbotham
This report explores the missions and organization of China’s military space enterprise. It
focuses on the organizational structure of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support
Force (SSF). Created on December 31, 2015, as part of a major reorganization of China’s
military, the SSF is charged with developing and employing most of the PLA’s space
capabilities. Tasked with integrating space more closely into operations, the creation of the SSF
signifies an important shift ...Read more > | 60 Pages 361.00 KB |
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 | THE PHYSICS OF SPACE WAR: HOW ORBITAL DYNAMICS CONSTRAIN SPACE-TO-SPACE ENGAGEMENTS By Rebecca Reesman, James R. Wilson
Movies portray wars in space much as they do wars
on Earth. Starfighters dogfight with unlimited
maneuverability and range. Troop transports drop
from orbit to celestial surfaces to deliver space
marines. But that is not how a real war in space
would look for decades, if ever. The space-to-space
engagements in a modern conflict would be fought
solely with un-crewed vehicles controlled by
operators on the ground and heavily constrained by
the limits physics imposes on movement in ...Read more > | 25 Pages 4.97 MB |
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 | SPACE POWER: DOCTRINE FOR SPACE FORCES By Space Capstone Publication
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n direct response to the launch of the Sputnik 1 Soviet spacecraft, pioneers in the U.S. military orchestrated a series of
milestones that propelled America’s status as the preeminent spacefaring Nation. Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 31
January 1958, the U.S. Army spacecraft Explorer 1 was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Earth.3 Two months later, the U.S. Navy
successfully orbited Vanguard 1, demonstrating the first solar powered
spacecraft.4 That same ...Read more > | 41 Pages 4.12 MB |
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 | SPACE AND MISSILE WARS: WHAT AWAITS By Henry D. Sokolski
Sometimes, slow, steady changes produce revolutionary results.
A case in point is missile and space technologies. Long-range
missiles, satellites, and space launch vehicles used to be high
technology exclusive to the superpowers. Now, scores of states have
both. As for ballistic missiles and drones, even non-state actors have
them, and these systems are far more accurate than anything the superpowers had even at the height of the Cold ...Read more > | 287 Pages 2.50 MB |
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 | SPACERS POLICY-2020 AND SPACERS NGP-2020 – SEEKING COMMENTS – REG. By Department of Space, GoI
Department of Space (DOS) being the administrative ministry in respect of space
activities in India as per the allocation of Business Rules of Government of India, shall
issue appropriate norms, guidelines and procedures from time to time for the space based
remote sensing activities for the developmental purposes in India.
Accordingly, a draft “Space-based Remote Sensing Policy of India (SpaceRS Policy
2020)” and draft ...Read more > | 29 Pages 1.62 MB |
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 | GLOBAL COUNTERSPACE CAPABILITIES By Secure World Foundation
From a security perspective, an increasing number
of countries are looking to use space to enhance
their military capabilities and national security. The
growing use of, and reliance on, space for national
security has also led more countries to look at
developing their own counterspace capabilities that
can be used to deceive, disrupt, deny, degrade, or
destroy space systems.
The existence of counterspace capabilities is
not new, but the circumstances surrounding
them are. Today ...Read more > | 238 Pages 16.53 MB |
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 | SPACE THREAT ASSESSMENT 2021 By Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Joe Moye, Makena Young
THE PAST YEAR HAS BEEN ONE OF UNCERTAINTY and
unpredictability driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, the
ensuing global recession, and political change in the
United States. For space security, however, 2020 was
largely a year of continuity and predictability. Perhaps the most
notable change in the space environment since the last CSIS
Space Threat Assessment was published is the addition of some
900 SpaceX Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), bringing the total constellation size to ...Read more > | 41 Pages 9.59 MB |
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 | TECHNIQUES FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS By Army Techniques Publication
ATP 6-02.54 expands on the doctrinal foundations and tenets found in FM 6-02. This publication identifies
and explains the role of satellite communications as a part of the transport layer of the Department of Defense
information network-Army.
The vision for the Department of Defense Information Network-Army is the employment of an end-to-end
network that provides assured global command and control and enables the Army to fight and win in a
contested and congested operating environment. ...Read more > | 98 Pages 5.48 MB |
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 | CHINA’S GROWING MILITARY SPACE PROWESS: INSTITUTIONS AND CAPABILITIES By Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Space has become an inalienable part of our daily lives. For everything from
agriculture and tele-medicine to national intelligence and surveillance, to everyday navigation
and communication, access to space is critical. Modern societies have gotten so accustomed
to using outer space that a day without access to outer space is inconceivable. For much of
the brief space age, this domain was dominated by the United States and the Soviet
Union/Russia. However, over the last couple of ...Read more > | 17 Pages 387.74 KB |
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 | SPACECOM POLICY - 2020 AND SPACECOM NGP-2020 – SEEKING COMMENTS- REG. By Department of Space, GoI
Department of Space being the administrative ministry in respect of space activities in
India as per the allocation of Business Rules of Government of India, shall issue appropriate
norms, guidelines and procedures including approval-mechanism from time to time for the
services in the areas of secured communication, commercial and societal services under
Spacecom-2020.
Accordingly, the Draft Space Based Communication Policy of ...Read more > | 42 Pages 301.24 KB |
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 | DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS IN SPACE By Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Makena Young
The United States is increasingly
dependent on space systems for
economic and military security.
The expansion of government and
commercial space capabilities has
opened markets and made possible
whole new industries within the United
States and around the world. Ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, the ultra-efficient supply chains of businesses, and the grocery delivery services
many depended on during the Covid-19
pandemic would not be possible without the U.S. military-operated ...Read more > | 53 Pages 17.30 MB |
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