China's Military Space Strategy: A Dialectical Materialism Perspective,
2023
United States Air Force
China's Military Space Strategy: A Dialectical Materialism Perspective, Sam Rouleau
Space and Defense
China’s military space strategy accommodates in significant ways the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) ideological commitment to dialectical materialism. This Marxian commitment persists and manifests in China’s investment in space power despite the Party’s widely acknowledged development of state capitalism to guide China’s economy.
Editor's Note Volume 11 No. 1,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Table Of Contents Volume 11 No. 1,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Table Of Contents Volume 11 No. 1, Space And Defense
Space and Defense
No abstract provided.
Front Matter Volume 11 No. 1,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Front Matter Volume 11 No. 1, Space And Defense
Space and Defense
No abstract provided.
Notes For Contributors,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Book Review: The Physics Of Wall Street: A Brief History Of Predicting The Unpredictable By James Owen Weatherall,
2023
Unite States Air Force Academy
Book Review: The Physics Of Wall Street: A Brief History Of Predicting The Unpredictable By James Owen Weatherall, Brian M. Kruchkow
Space and Defense
A USAFA graduate comments on predicting the unpredictable when surveying new spaces at the frontiers of defense policy.
James Owen Weatherall’s book about the robust interplay of Wall Street and physics is a captivating romp about select physicists as well as a lesson on how finance both succeeds and falls short when it applies mathematical models to predict economic behavior.1 Such a book is a surprising candidate for a review in Space and Defense. Yet the ideas Weatherall presents are innovative, and they offer a framework for thinking about the problems with which this journal is concerned. In fact, The …
Cadet Voice: Hypersonic Weapons' Effect On Stragetic Stability,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Cadet Voice: Hypersonic Weapons' Effect On Stragetic Stability, Darren Sency
Space and Defense
Initial exploration of the relationship between new technologies and strategic stability finds that hypersonic weapons, regardless of which power deploys them, first, could raise the probability of nuclear war.
Managing Criminalized Power Structures: The Predominant Spoilers Of Peace Processes,
2023
George Mason University
Managing Criminalized Power Structures: The Predominant Spoilers Of Peace Processes, Michael Dziedzic
Space and Defense
Criminalized Power Structures (CPS) exploit illicit wealth acquisition to usurp political power and constitute a leading source of obstruction when the international community intervenes in states struggling to emerge from civil conflict. Structures operating outside domestic or international law may constitute a crucial barrier or spoiler for UN and coalition peace operations. This held true in the post-Cold War interregnum before 9/11 and is likely to continue for stabilization operations, regardless of outcomes from enormous international security investments in Afghanistan and Iraq. By understanding the different types of spoilers acting across cases, the United States and partners in the international …
Legislating For Humanity's Next Step: Cultivating A Legal Framework For The Mining Of Celestial Bodies,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Legislating For Humanity's Next Step: Cultivating A Legal Framework For The Mining Of Celestial Bodies, Joseph Crombie
Space and Defense
Rapid expansion in the space sector by state and private sector actors highlights the need for a new legal regulatory framework, particularly regarding property rights. The exploitation of space-based resources through the mining of asteroids is currently subject to a cold-war era international agreement that did not include clear consideration about how future off-world commercial exploitation might be regulated or property rights assigned. This article explores two empirical examples, the International Seabed Authority and the International Telecommunication Union, to determine whether they provide useful models of a future international legal framework for off-world property rights.
The Russian Sapce Sector: Adaptation, Retrenchment, And Stagnation,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Russian Sapce Sector: Adaptation, Retrenchment, And Stagnation, Bruce Mcclintock
Space and Defense
Senior Leader Essay
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia focused on its public space sector and consciously chose not to cultivate competitive, private space companies. Russia’s overall space enterprise is now in systemic crisis due to multiple factors and, despite positive rhetoric from the government and with the partial exception of national security space capabilities, faces yet another generation of stagnation.
Editor's Note Volume 10 No.1,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Table Of Contents Volume 10 No.1,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Table Of Contents Volume 10 No.1, Space And Defense
Space and Defense
No abstract provided.
Front Matter Volume 10 No.1,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Front Matter Volume 10 No.1, Space And Defense
Space and Defense
No abstract provided.
Notes For The Contributors,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Book Review: Tom Nichols, The Death Of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge And Why It Matters (Ny: Oxford University Press, 2017) 252 Pp.,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Book Review: Tom Nichols, The Death Of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge And Why It Matters (Ny: Oxford University Press, 2017) 252 Pp., Damon Coletta
Space and Defense
This review is dedicated to Lt Gen (ret.) Brent Scowcroft, twice National Security Advisor and one-time head of the Department of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy. If he is looking down on our work today, we hope he liked this book, Death of Expertise, by a much admired Naval War College professor and enjoyed our department’s enthusiasm for participating in the conversation. Thank you, Gen Scowcroft (1925-2020).
Naval War College professor Tom Nichols built upon his popular essay in the Atlantic to deliver a blunt warning.1 After a venomous election in 2016 that swept the incumbent party from power, …
Cadet Voice: Extended Deterrence And Resilience In The Baltic States,
2023
Unite States Air Force Academy
Cadet Voice: Extended Deterrence And Resilience In The Baltic States, Liam J. Connolly
Space and Defense
The following USAFA cadet independent study was supported by the Academy’s Nuclear Weapons & Strategy minor and the Cadet Summer Language Immersion Program to Lithuania. With minor formatting changes, the paper here appears as submitted to the USSTRATCOM Larry D. Welch Writing Award and the summer Deterrence Symposium (Omaha, NE), July 31-Aug. 1, 2019, where it won junior division, first place.
Since the end of the Second World War the United States has practiced extended deterrence as a means of resisting Russian expansion and aggression. In Europe, the US has done this with the support of the North Atlantic Treaty …
Cadet Voice: Artificial Intelligence And Stability In Nuclear Crises,
2023
Unite States Air Force Academy
Cadet Voice: Artificial Intelligence And Stability In Nuclear Crises, Marshall D. Foster
Space and Defense
The following USAFA cadet independent study, with the exception of minor grammatical corrections, is produced as presented at the winter conference of the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2019 (https://www.csis.org/events/poni- 2019-winter-conference).
Technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) by the United States, China and Russia jeopardize the longstanding nuclear peace that the world has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.1 The desire to obtain AI capabilities for the purpose of strengthening defense and security postures could spur a new arms race among these powerful nuclear states, and the United …
Deterrence In Cyberspace: A Game-Theoretic Approach,
2023
Center for Operational Research and Analysis
Deterrence In Cyberspace: A Game-Theoretic Approach, Abderrahman Sokri
Space and Defense
This novel application of the Stackelberg leader-follower game from economic theory illuminates situational constraints that point to a sweet spot, an optimal level of investment in cyber defense, for deterrence by denial.
Deterrence is a form of persuasion intended to manipulate the cost-benefit analysis of would-be attackers and convince them that the cost of taking an action against the defender outweighs its potential benefit (Brantly, 2018; Wilner, 2017).1 It is the prevention (of a target) from committing unwanted behavior by fear of the consequences (United States (US) Department of Defense (DoD), 2008; Taipale, 2010). Deterrence differs from compellence by focusing …
Duffer's Drift And Space Operations,
2023
United States Space Force
Duffer's Drift And Space Operations, Roger Wortman
Space and Defense
Defence of Duffer’s Drift, a popular Boer War tale among British infantry officers, teaches lessons for the future of space operations.
Published in the early 20th Century, The Defence of Duffer's Drift is a work of fiction written as an educational tool for small unit leaders. The novella outlines the experiences for a young lieutenant and his tumultuous path to success when charge with defending key terrain. Told through a series of dreams, Duffer's Drift provides multiple tactical lessons through and iterative process, each building on the previous sequence. The officer fails multiple times while learning from various mistakes while …
As Delivered Remarks General John E. Hyten,
2023
USSTRATCOM
As Delivered Remarks General John E. Hyten, John E. Hyten
Space and Defense
Senior Leader Voice
…I always thought, many times as I look back, if life would have been different if I’d gone to the Air Force Academy because one of the big advantages you guys are about to experience as you go into the world, into the United States Air Force, is that you will have a support structure built in from the day you come into the service. You will have this group of people that you had a common experience with for your four years. As you go through that structure you will have that common bond that will …
