Just before U.S. and Russian negotiating teams were to meet in Vienna for the Space Security Exchange, Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, the commander of U.S. Space Command and head of the U.S. Space Force, told a video conference of the Center for a New American Security on July 24 that the Space Force would be releasing a war-fighting doctrine for space within days.
“One of the things I’m really excited about is that we’ve drafted our first-ever ‘Capstone Warfighting Doctrine’ for space; it’s at the printers,” he said, reported Breaking Defense. “We’re expecting that to get delivered here in the next couple of days, and we’re going to roll that out either next week, if it comes in on time, or the week after, but it’s imminent.”
The document, Raymond explained, will “define military space power as a distinct form of military power, which will be a first, and it’s a foundational document that will inform the ethos and values of this new Space Force.”
