Space Force capacity to move beyond simply support functions to national defense and terrestrial military operations, to playing a vital role in supporting commercial and civilian activities, especially in the cislunar environment. 8) Poole and Bettinger’s The Cosmic Sandbox: An Advocated Military Role in Future Space Commerce and Exploration argues for the need to develop U.S.Cultural differences and misunderstandings are likely to lead to crisis mismanagement. prioritizing space dominance and deterrence could lead to counter-balancing by China as space and sovereignty issues are intricately linked in Chinese conceptions of spacepower and comprehensive national power. Space Relations discusses the security dilemma concept where U.S. 7) Fabian’s Psychology of Deterrence in Sino-U.S.6) Brahm’s STEM Education Should be a National Security Priority discusses the vital importance of STEM education to national security, especially its contribution to creating technological ‘breakthroughs’ to broaden and strengthen national security-based education architectures.The author argues that the Space Force leaders should address that expectation and ‘de-science fictionalize’ the idea of the Space Force in the popular imagination, a daunting task given the mythological societal power of stories like Star Wars and Star Trek (not dissimilar to Apollo and Artemis in Greece or Chang’e in China) 5) Whitman Cobb’s “It’s a Trap!” The Pros and Mostly “Khans” of Science Fiction’s Influence on the United States Space Force highlights the expectations about the Space Force ( see Space Force recruitment video) from the larger community based on some Star Trek-like belief of what a Starfleet should be like.4) Grosselin’s A Beneficial and Striking Success: Diplomatic Spacepower and Communication Satellites in the Early Space Age highlights the diplomatic spacepower influence of communications satellites, as well as their long term strategic effects.3) Malachowski’s Don’t Gamble on the Next Space Race: Win in the Orbital Gray Zone Now raises concerns about the growing criticality of space as an economic domain and the consequences of that, to include the unwillingness of some countries to abide by norms and rules.
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al’s Posturing Space Forces for Operations Beyond GEO offers insights into how Space Force would require a strategic space situational awareness mode and operational capacity beyond GEO as humanity moves out into deep space. 1) Dickey’s New Service, New Architecture: Rising to the Challenge of Delivering Space Force Capabilities which recommends redesigning the national security architecture to better accommodate new modes of military thinking to include interoperability.The ambitious first issue includes nine provocative articles on a range of important issues: SFJ seeks to also discuss academic and policy dialogue on issues of critical importance to not only Space Force missions, doctrines and outlook (see Space Force origins video), but also the issues that could be of importance to the larger space science, space advocacy and space enthusiast community such as NSS. It is hoped that SFJ will provide a critical forum to serious scholarship on issues pertaining to spacepower found on a single source-a forum absent until now. The journal’s intent is to foster a deep-seated understanding of spacepower, its meaning, and what is required to sustain leadership. Space Force ( see Space Force commercial). The Journal hopes to be an advocacy platform on topics that could be of particular interest to the newly establish U.S. Per the Editorial Foreword, SFJ offers a platform for diverse perspectives on space policy, literature, science and space law. The newly minted Space Force Journal (SFJ) with its beautiful space art makes for exciting and inspiring reading.