摘要：The president’s direction emphasizes the ongoing, status-quo mentality that our current strategy for the national security of space cannot hold and that in the coming decade the US’s reliance on space-enabled capabilities will be challenged. In 2010, USAF Gen C. Robert Kehler, then the commander of the US Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), noted that our strategic approach has not changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and we need to safeguard our military, intelligence, and commercial space assets against China, Russia, and other state actors’ (i.e., Iran or North Korea) space and counterspace capabilities that will threaten de facto US superiority in space, effectively how the US wages war.1 As the US’s space war-fighting capabilities continue to be challenged by near-peer countries, we must reestablish the US Space Command (USSPACECOM) as a unified combatant command (CCMD) to coordinate our efforts to avoid and prepare for conflicts in space.
