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A Modest Proposal: For Preventing Space Operations from Being a Burden to The Navy ...

A Modest Proposal: For Preventing Space Operations from Being a Burden to The Navy ...

Paperback

Series: Space Power

Naval History

ISBN10: 1608882640
ISBN13: 9781608882649
Publisher: Nimble Books
Published: Dec 19 2023
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This 2007 thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School provides instructive review of the reasons the US Navy has historically taken second place to the US Air Force in providing and utilizing military access to space, then puts forward proposals for improving the situation, notably, the formation of an independent Space Corps. Nearly twenty years later, the context has shifted, with the Navy ever more dependent on satellite services, and space-based surveillance a key element in the new kill chain of anti-ship ballistic and hypersonic weapons. The Navy, whose mission uniquely involves slow-moving persistence of large, not especially stealthy, objects over the vast expanses of the world's oceans, is also uniquely sensitive to the adversary capabilities afforded by small, extremely-fast-moving objects passing far overhead. Future naval wars with peer competitors will be inextricably connected with US military space capabilities.

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