Spacepower: Weaponizing Space to Advance American Military Dominance

Abstract

The space environment is vital to the current American way of war and will exponentially increase in importance moving into the future. Despite its importance to the U.S. military, the space environment is a vulnerable, uncertain, and unexploited domain. The United States should exploit its current superiority in space by being the first nation to weaponize the domain by deploying space weapons, establishing the capability to control activities in space by force, and by setting-up a new international framework for outer space in order to advance Americas military dominance into the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 28, 2019
Accession Number
AD1179206

Entities

People

  • Brian T Spillane

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Command And Control
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Defense Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Elliptical Orbits
  • Environment
  • Law
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Security
  • Space Based
  • Space Environments
  • Space Force
  • Space Operations
  • Space Systems
  • Space Weapons
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space