The Space Force’s new “capstone” doctrine document officially puts into action the two-year campaign by Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman to refocus the service’s traditional mission of providing critical support functions to the rest of the US military toward waging war “in, from and to space.”. “Space is a warfighting domain, not a collection of supporting activities. In conflict, space will be a contested environment. We are the military Service dedicated to fighting in it. We do not merely provide support functions — we also employ military force to achieve space superiority in order to ensure our freedom of maneuver,” Saltzman stresses in his forward to Space Force Doctrine Document 1 (SFDD-1), released today ahead of next week’s annual Space Symposium.
From support to ‘warfighting’: Space Force releases first ‘capstone’ operations doctrine (Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense)
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