By remembering that “it’s the adversary, stupid,” the US will better focus on the decision calculus of that government and its own political-economic-security centers of gravity, which may not assign a comparatively high value to its own access to space. The US will identify options for holding at risk equities that government holds dear in any theater or domain, with an eye to minimizing collateral impacts on third-party countries and populations. Because the protection of space as a permanent preserve for one and all is the objective, the use of force by the US in a non-symmetrical fashion against the terrestrial interests of an adversary who was threatening the world’s interests in space would be defensible.
PROFESSIONAL ARCHIVE
“A Space Doctrine for Soldier, Scientist, and Citizen: What it Will Take to Secure the Space Domain,” High Frontier