Plus: America needs a Space Academy for the space age
By Dan Robitzski
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Between the U.K.'s recent Strategic Defence Review putting space on par with land, sea and air as a warfighting domain, and its Defence Investment Plan earmarking more than $4 billion for space over four years, the British government is making clear its intentions for warfighting in space. But still missing is a playbook, Shield Space CTO Daniel Molland wrote in a recent commentary article, along with a clearer vision for what tactical problems any military space agencies would solve and how they would do it. Otherwise, Molland argued, the U.K. military is needlessly restraining itself.
"The army had generations and the room to learn much of its doctrine in contact, correcting it as it went. Space has neither," Molland wrote. "The medium is transparent, the cost balance favors the aggressor, and a single miscalculation can render an orbit unusable for everyone in it for decades. The first real fight may be the last one that matters, and there is no way to rehearse it at scale beforehand. In a domain where you cannot learn in contact, the side that has thought the fight through most rigorously beforehand is the side that has, in effect, already won."
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The White House took preliminary steps in August toward establishing a U.S. Space Academy that would train the space industry workforce for roles in commercial companies, the military and civil government.
Offering guidance for how such a space academy could bring broad space expertise under one roof is a recent commentary article coauthored by several representatives of the National Space Society. As they wrote, no existing institute "is designed to bring all three together under one roof, with one professional standard and one shared sense of mission. That is the job of a Space Academy."
The authors go on to say that the academy should go beyond undergraduate training and, with a focus on national service, should "offer graduate and professional programs that bring together military officers, civil servants, commercial executives, engineers and operators in the same classroom, keeping the institution tied to real operations."
Read the full commentary here.
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