The U.S. Space Force is continuing its push for the U.S. domination of orbital space. On April 17, the service released a document defining what it means by “space warfare.”
The document, dubbed “Space Warfighting—A Framework for Planners,” represents the “natural maturing” of the five-year-old Space Force, a service that once shied away from publicly saying it would conduct offensive and defensive operations in space, said Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, Space Force deputy chief of space operations, strategy, plans, programs, and requirements, reported Defense One on April 17.
“This document is really intended to do that, to introduce sort of a common framework, common lexicon that we can use in our training and in our education programs, and really write down things that then guardians can argue about and debate and think about and use as a tool in their planning that really is about fighting in the domain,” Bratton told reporters ahead of the release.
