US Space Force publishes Space Warfighting blueprint for future of warfare beyond Earth: Global power projection

The United States Space Force published “Space Warfighting: A Framework for Planners” — a detailed blueprint that lays out basic principles, tactics and strategies for battling adversaries in the future’s most critical war domain — space.The USSF described its plans to defend US space capabilities and maintain the Joint Force’s “long-range kill chains and global power projection” to achieve short, mid, and long-term “space-superiority,” in a manual published for experts in the military community Thursday.“Space superiority” is defined by the space-faring military branch as having a “degree of control that allows forces to operate at a time and place of their choosing without prohibitive interference from space or counterspace threats, while also denying the same to an adversary.”“Space superiority may involve seeking out and destroying an enemy’s spacecraft, systems, and networks through measures designed to minimize the effectiveness of those systems, or countering enemy efforts in the other warfighting domains (land, maritime, air, and cyberspace),” the battle manual read.“The ability to establish space superiority at the time and place of our choosing enables joint lethality in all domains,” the document stated.“This document is really intended … to introduce sort of a common framework, common lexicon that we can use in our training and in our education programs,”  Lt.Gen.

Shawn Bratton, Space Force deputy chief of space operations told reporters according to Defense One news. To achieve this goal of outright domain domination, the military branch laid out their plans of offensive and defensive tactics and strategies in three mission areas — Orbital Warfare, Electromagnetic Warfare, and Cyberspace Warfare.Offensive counterspace operations include orbital strikes, terrestrial strikes, and space link interdictions — which include electromagnetic and cybernetwork attacks carried out to “disrupt, deny, or degrade a...