Addressing Future Legal Impacts on the Operational Factor of Space

Abstract

The physical space encompassed by land, sea and airspace, including outer space, with all their features & influence employment and effectiveness of land, sea and air forces. This use of physical space can be influenced by legal, political, or ethnic conditions. Recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted the influence that legal conditions have on the operational factor of space, increasingly restricting the freedom of action of the operational commander. This influence manifests itself on the theater strategic level in the need for the operational commander to factor in approval by various States for basing, access, overflight and transshipment of personnel, or equipment and other logistics, in order to conduct operations. The question facing current leaders is what if anything can be done now to address the legal influences on the operational factor of space in the future so as to decrease the restrictions that these influences may place on future operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 18, 2004
Accession Number
ADA425948

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Boock

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Base Closures
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • International Law
  • Logistics
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Overflight
  • United States
  • United States European Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.

Technology Areas

  • Space