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Accession Number:

AD1160097

Title:

Whence the Power? A Reevaluation of Air and Sea Strategic Theories for Spacepower Theory

Author(s):

• Sanford, Ryan A.

Author Organization(s):

• Army Command and General Staff College

Report Date:

2020-05-21

Abstract:

This monograph evaluates air and sea strategic analogs for applicability to space. In its evaluation, the study determines that previous spacepower theorists overlooked airpower theory to the detriment of spacepower theory. Moreover, this study offers new ideas for spacepower theory using seapower analogies. Understanding that human experience in space lacks enough data to build a theory from ground-up, this monograph instead offers nine propositions-adapted from airpower and seapower theories for the student of strategy to contemplate spacepower at the military and grand strategic levels.

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Pages:

60

File Size:

0.32MB

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Descriptors:

• war colleges
• air force
• air power
• national security
• space systems
• space debris
• international relations
• warfare
• geography
• military science
• space environments
• space objects
• students
• treaties
• artificial satellites
• aerial warfare
• governments

SubjectCategory:

• Space Technology

Communities of Interest:

• Energy and Power Technologies

Distribution Statement:

Approved For Public Release

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