The Future of Space Operations

Published: June 27, 2019, 7:43 p.m.

b'OTH recently held a panel with two Air Force Space Officers; Maj Mathew \\u201cBroker\\u201d Beck, also a Space Weapons Officer, and Maj Adam \\u201cHowler\\u201d Howland. Maj Paige Young, an Air Force Intelligence officer guided the panel discussion. The panel discussed a variety of topics to include their thoughts on the future role of the Department of Defense in the space domain, the debate on a need for a separate US Space Force, space as a warfighting domain and how conflict or brinkmanship could unfold in a future space domain. The panel also touched on US considerations in light of China\\u2019s rapid investment in the space domain culminating in their recent landing on the far side of the moon.\\n\\nLinks to the referenced documents can be found here:\\nhttps://www.csis.org/analysis/space-threat-assessment-2019\\nhttps://swfound.org/counterspace/'