Space doctrine for the 21st century : a research paper presented to the Research Department, Air Command and Staff College, in partial fulfillment of the graduation requirements of ACSC / by Major Robert D. Newberry.

Format:

• Book
• Government document

Author/Creator:

• Newberry, Robert D., 1964- author.

Contributor:

• Air University (U.S.). Air Command and Staff College, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Astronautics, Military--United States.
• Astronautics and state--United States.
• Military doctrine--United States.
• Astronautics and state.
• Astronautics, Military.
• Military doctrine.
• United States.

Genre:

• Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 85 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

[March 1997 edition].

Other Title:

Space doctrine for the twenty-first century

Place of Publication:

Maxwell AFB, AL : Air Command and Staff College, 1997.

Summary:

Today there is virtually no approved space doctrine to guide the development and employment of space forces. The supporting strategies for organizing, training, equipping, and employing space forces do not exist. There is no discussion of the tenets of space power or the operational art of employing space forces. Space policy has emerged to fill the doctrinal void. Policy is the major influence on the organization, training, equipping, and employment of U.S. space forces. The preeminence of policy and absence of doctrine has caused military effectiveness to be muted in the debates over space forces. Without a clear vision of what space forces should do, the Air Force has been left to build space forces in an ad hoc manner. There is no doctrinal guidance for how to achieve the offensive and defensive mix of forces called for in the national space policy and there is no approved process from which the needed doctrine can be developed. Although doctrine development follows a proscribed bureaucratic process, little consideration is given to the underlying thought process. This paper attempts to define a doctrine development process and use it to formulate a space doctrine. This doctrine includes the tenets of space power, the operational art of space warfare, and implementation strategies for space forces. This doctrine can be immediately applied to ongoing space operations.

Notes:

• "AU/ACSC/0427/97-03."
• "March 1997."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-85).
• Online resource; title from PDF title page (DTIC, viewed June 11, 2018).

OCLC:

227987501