SPI Assistant Professor Dr. Aaron Bateman was published in the Journal of Strategic Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal covering military and diplomatic strategic studies.
His article, “Information security in the space age: Britain’s Skynet satellite communications program and the evolution of modern command and control networks,” utilizes recently declassified documents to reframe the history of British space activities.
He shows how U.K. space policy during the Cold War was shaped by sovereign control requirements for flexible and secure defense communications, but that in the Space Age, Britain had to reconcile its desire for an autonomous satellite communications network with the reality of vital American assistance.
