An Executive Guide to Space: A Starting Point for Understanding Space in the New Millennium

Abstract

Understanding space and how America plans to use it in the new millennium has captured the attention of our national leadership. Each branch of service within the military has discovered the tremendous warfighting potential of space. Such realization has fired intense doctrinal debates as well as fiscal competition for dwindling resources under the umbrella of this new frontier. These emerging debates and the bottom-line budget battles have brought an entirely new dimension to our national priorities, which until now have been based on three mediums of warfare: land, sea, and air. Space brings us into the fourth dimension of warfare. As we move our warfighting into this new medium, it is imperative that we develop a fundamental appreciation and understanding of the nuts and bolts' of our current space debate.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA376661

Entities

People

  • Steven D. Carey

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Apogees
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Astronautics
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Employment
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Information Systems
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Military Science
  • Space Objects
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Orbits
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space