The United States' Military Strategy Space

Abstract

The Soviet Union's overwhelming capabilities in space pose a continuing and accelerating threat to the national security interests of the United States. A comprehensive, coherent, and complementary National Space Strategy integrating political, economic, socio-psychological, and military elements of power is vital to securing these interests. This paper was designed to examine the military element of power as a component of the integrated national strategy. During research it was discovered that the United States does not have clearly stated political, economic, and socio-psychological strategies in space, and that the statement of the military element of power is unstructured, incomplete, and ambiguous. It was further discovered that there are numerous approaches to a military space strategy, but that there is no consensus regarding appropriate objectives and concepts. This paper examines key military issues in space and presents a recommended definitional and structural framework for objectives, concepts, and components of a national military space strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 27, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209763

Entities

People

  • Everett R. Yount Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Combat Support
  • Command And Control
  • Defense Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Military Applications
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Explosion Detection
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Space Stations
  • Space Systems
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Surveillance
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space