View Why We Need a Space Force By Todd Harrison PublishedOctober 3, 2018 Space capabilities are already an indispensable component of U.S. military power. A Space Force is needed to consolidate authority and responsibility for national security space; to build a robust cadre of space professionals; and to avoid the conflicts of interest inherent in the other Services that have short-changed space programs for decades.
View Why a Space Force Can Wait By Kaitlyn Johnson PublishedOctober 3, 2018 Establishing a Department of the Space Force by 2020 is rushing into an end solution without proper consideration. Although there have been several space reorganization studies in the past two decades, a comprehensive public debate of our current space capabilities and their organization is just beginning.
View U.S. Missile Defense and the Theater-Strategic Nexus By Ryan Fedasiuk PublishedOctober 17, 2018 As it stands, the planned strategy of forsaking arms control in the name of coercive diplomacy is bound to backfire. The Pentagon should tread carefully, lest it invites Russia to develop strategic weapons it has no method or intention of countering.
View A Space Force is Worth the Price By Todd Harrison PublishedNovember 27, 2018 We should not wait for a Pearl Harbor in space to realize we need to reorganize and elevate space as a co-equal branch of the military. Just as the Air Force was worth the disruption and additional costs more than 70 years ago, a Space Force is worth the price today.
View So What’s the Big Deal About Mars InSight? By Sean O'Keefe PublishedDecember 3, 2018 Why go to Mars? The InSight vehicle is designed to examine the Mars interior—its core and crust—to learn how the planetary formations may have been different from ours and look for evidence of seismic or other events that may explain its hellish reality today.
View Bad Idea: Conflating the Space Force with NASA By Kaitlyn Johnson PublishedDecember 21, 2018 As the administration moves forward with establishing a new military service focused on space, leaders should keep their language clear and use this opportunity to educate the public about both civil and national security space.
View Is the White House Planning to Hold the Space Station Hostage? By G. Ryan Faith PublishedMarch 1, 2019 What does the future hold for the International Space Station? Space policy consultant G. Ryan Faith argues that the executive and legislative branches must work together to ensure a successful transition after the Station is retired.
View Deaf, Dumb, Blind, and Impotent in Space By Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) PublishedApril 4, 2019 The risk of a space Pearl Harbor is growing every day. Yet this war would not last for years. Rather, it would be over the day it started. This commentary is the foreword of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project report entitled Space Threat Assessment, 2019.
View Congressional Testimony: China in Space By Todd Harrison PublishedApril 25, 2019 Read Todd Harrison’s full testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “China in Space: A Strategic Competition.”
View A Foreword to Space Threat Assessment 2020 By Marty Faga PublishedMarch 29, 2020 An exclusive foreword by Marty Faga, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office and longtime advocate for space security.