By: Joe Buff

Joe Buff — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:03:57 +0000

My very esteemed NIDS colleague and particular Space Deterrence expert Chris Stone has penned another indispensable, short and to the point essay arguing for stronger American ability to project armed force into and within and even from outer space. I agree totally that only in this way (“Peace Through Strength Beyond the Karmen Line”) can we stand a prayer of deterring superpower adversaries Russia and China from strengthening their own current daunting, years-ahead-of-us space-arms advantages (ASATs, FOBS, Sputnuke, etc.) — which overmatching capabilities then enable/allow them to coerce or even attack us and our allies and friends. Pacifism will not work, nor will setting a “fine example” of restraint. Cultural mirror imaging between us and the CRINKs’ ruthless, violent, repressive and even genocidal dictatorships is a fatal error. Chris uses the appealing, convincing example, of a USAF that is clearly useless for both offense and for defense, to show the still-doubtful among his audience that any further pacifism-isolationism, trivialization, and/or sub-minimalism in U.S. military space power will make sure the Good Guys lose Cold War II.

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By: Joe Buff