SPI faculty member Dr. John Klein was quoted in a Breaking Defense article regarding how General Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations of the United States Space Force, seeks to expand the service’s mindset to defending the Joint Force across multiple domains from space-enabled attacks.
New adversarial capabilities in space that threaten terrestrial domains have justified this shift beyond protecting interests in space, and the Space Force must consider offensive capabilities to counter them.
Dr. Klein discussed how this recognition is influencing the development of the Space Force’s doctrine, and how it clarifies the need to update Joint Doctrine with current space operational thinking.
“To me, this shouldn’t come as a surprise, because the land, sea, and air domains have readily acknowledged the need to have both defensive and offensive approaches, strategies, and operations. Because space is not special, just wonderfully different, the idea of including defensive and offensive thinking makes strategic sense.”
Dr. John Klein
