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Brilliant Pebbles Can Provide a Real Space-Based Missile Defense for Golden Dome

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesballistic missile interception, Blue Origin, boost-phase intercept, Brilliant Pebbles, cost-effective defense, Future Space-Based Interceptors, Golden Dome, homeland missile defense, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, layered missile defense, low Earth orbit (LEO), missile defense strategy, national missile defense policy, Nuclear Deterrence, placebo defense, rogue state threats, Space control, space launch capabilities, space-based interceptors, space-based missile defense, SpaceX, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Team B, technological readiness

Brilliant Pebbles Can Provide a Real Space-Based Missile Defense for Golden Dome

Matthew Mowthorpe0 Comments

The announcement of Golden Dome in May 2025 has reinvigorated discussions around the often-maligned concept of space-based missile defenses. Ever since President Reagan’s 1983 speech announcing the Strategic Defense Initiative…

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A Realist Shift in Western Military Space Posture

Archive, Space Deterrence & Conflictallied space cooperation, Allied Space Operations Doctrine, bodyguard satellites, C4I disruption, China, Christophe Bosquillon , defense modernization, deterrence shift, deterrence strategy, France, Germany, guardian satellites, India, Indo-Pacific, international partnerships, IRIS² constellation, Japan, long-range kill webs, military space capacity building, National Institute for Deterrence Studies. , NATO, Russia, satellite resilience, Space control, space deterrence, space domain, space domain awareness, space industrial base, space rules of engagement, space situational awareness, space sovereignty, space warfare, space weaponization, Starlink dependency, tactical responsive launch, United Kingdom, US Space Force, Western military posture

A Realist Shift in Western Military Space Posture

Christophe Bosquillon0 Comments

In late September 2025, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made history when he suggested the US Space Force is going full “space control” mode. This is the 2025…

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The Case for Space Control: An Australian Perspective

Archive, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic AdversariesADF, anti-satellite weapons, ASAT, Australian Defence Force, Australian Space Agency, Australian Strategic Policy Institute. , cyber capabilities, Defence Space Command, Defence Space Strategy, Malcolm Davis, militarized space, soft-kill systems, sovereign space access, space capabilities, Space control, space domain, space domain awareness, space electronic warfare, space launch, space lift, space policy, space resilience, space threats, space-based technologies

The Case for Space Control: An Australian Perspective

Malcolm Davis0 Comments

Space is an operational domain that is highly contested and in a crisis could quickly become a warfighting environment. Space is “militarized” through the deployment of satellites to support a…

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