The Space Force Can’t Achieve Space Superiority on the Cheap

The Space Force Can’t Achieve Space Superiority on the Cheap

Each branch of the military needs at least two things to succeed: a clear mission and a sufficient budget. The U.S. Space Force so far has only one of them. The chief of space operations, Gen. Chance Saltzman, laid out the mission quite clearly in his “Space Warfighting—A Framework for Planners” earlier this year: “to achieve space superiority—to ensure freedom of movement in space for our forces while denying the same to our adversaries.” Saltz…