Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Credit: National Institute for Public Policy

Foreign Space Capabilities: Implications for U.S. National Security is a new monograph authored by Steve Lambakis and available from the National Institute for Public Policy, dated September 2017.

The monograph explains: “U.S. defense leaders must strive to guarantee U.S. freedom of action and provide a strong deterrent to aggressive behavior in space that prevents efforts by other nations to control orbits. These are the core interests of the United States in space.”

Credit: National Institute for Public Policy

“However much U.S. leaders and many of the American people and U.S. allies would never want to fight a war that extends into space, the United States must be prepared to defend its operations in that domain and, if necessary, fight through the loss of access to space capabilities. Space is an obvious place for the adversary to look to upset the advantage currently carried by the United States. This is why the nation’s leaders must act to defend and deter in space.”

Chapters focus on Expanding Exploitation of Space; Foreign Space and Counter-Space Developments; Protecting and Exercising U.S. Space Power; Implications for U.S. Defense Policy; and concludes with recommendations.

This report is available at:

http://www.nipp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Foreign-Space-Capabilities-pub-2017.pdf