摘要：In the audience today is Gen William Shelton, USAF, retired, and Lt Gen Sam Greaves, USAF—both are great Americans who helped us make a lot of progress in preparing for a contested space environment. Looking out five or 10 years from now, a question we should ask ourselves is, who will be the next Willie Shelton and Sam Greaves? Well, on 14 March 2017, the Department of Defense published the Air Force list of colonels being nominated to become one-star generals. There are 37 nominees on that list. Would anyone like to guess how many were career space professionals, like then-Colonel Shelton and Colonel Greaves? None.
