Space Force Application
Abstract
In the years beyond 2025, our nation faces the real possibility of prosecuting a future 'major combat operation' in Space. This will be a new form of warfare that future generations of Army soldier-leaders will need to study and develop tactics, techniques, and procedures to fight air, land, sea, and Space systems against a foe in Space to seize and hold 'key-terrain' or mass our collective joint combat power against an enemy's capability to threaten our way of life and security. Space, like other physical domains, has key terrain that is essential for our Space systems to operate. Certain orbits and specific orbit locations are key to our freedom of maneuver in Space. Lagrange points (places of zero gravity near our Earth and Moon) are key future pre-positioning areas for Space and terrestrial forces apportioned/allocated for actions in terrestrial operations as well as operations in celestial campaigns. Deployment of Space and terrestrial forces from zero gravity points would take hours rather than days and would represent a key capability from a nontraditional line of communication that many future adversaries would be unable to defend. Future adversaries could deploy Space-based weapon systems that would be able to deny, degrade, disrupt, and destroy U.S. or coalition Space-based capabilities. Our nation must develop ground-, air-, sea-, and Space-based weapon systems that can protect our Space-based systems and defeat those of the enemy. The future battlefield management, information, and command control systems must consider not just using Space-based systems to enable terrestrial operations, but consider the requirements to conduct Space warfare.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA524704
Entities
People
- Greg Palka
Organizations
- United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command