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Navy Hits USAF On Satellite Acquisition (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 17 MAR 08)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy has told lawmakers it fears being short-changed when cuts are made to over-budget spy satellite programs run by the Air Force.
In unusually blunt testimony, Rear Adm. Kenneth Deutsch, director of warfare integration in the Navy’s communications networks office, raised [...]

Thought this one was worth posting. Looks like General Chilton might be coming around to a warfighter’s view of space. Not a bad thing to have happen to a former Shuttle astronaut now in charge of the nation’s Strategic Command. And Mike Vickers always knows what he is talking about.
The New Art of War By [...]

Jim Oberg has another great take on “Sense, nonsense, and pretense about the destruction of USA 193” in The Space Review.

Jeremy Hsu of Imaginova penned an article for Space News: “Space Arms Race Heats up Overnight.” A few choice bits (my emphases):
“It was an unfortunate choice by the United States that seems to have been unnecessary. The fact is that satellites fall from space all the time and the risk of it was fairly minimal,” [...]

I received this technical analysis (Forden analysis) by MIT’s Geoffrey E. Forden regarding the US Navy’s proposed shootdown of USA 193. Forden’s attempts at objectivity are laughable, but the commentary that accompanied his e-mail shows the ethical vacuity of his school of thought. Better to let some folks die than sully pristine outer space with the possibility of conflict [...]

It doesn’t get any better than this. Whyis the Navy going to shoot down an inoperable American spy satellite? Lots opf reasons come to mind, very few of which jive with the official version that it is an issue of pubic safety. Our friend Jim Oberg has, as usual, the most scientifically sound and logical responses–but [...]

Glad to see that our Congressmen is on message about the real utility of space:
Washington Times, January 11, 2008 Pg. 19
Needed: Strategy For Space Protection
China’s anti-satellite efforts pose danger By Terry Everett A year ago this week, the People’s Republic of China launched one of its ballistic missiles and destroyed a satellite orbiting overhead, creating [...]

The following is the keynote presentation I delivered recently to the National Security Space Center’s Space Education Symposium: 
A couple of months ago, I accompanied most of my colleagues at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies on a tour of Air Force Space Command at Peterson and Schriever Air Force Bases in beautiful Colorado [...]

Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese, Chair of the National Security Studies Department at the U.S. Naval War College, has published an interesting article titled “China’s Space Ambitions” in Proliferation Papers, available at:
 
http://www.ifri.org/files/Securite_defense/China_Space_Johnson_Freese.pdf.

[John Sheldon has a very thoughtful editorial in Today’s Space News]

The Chinese anti-satellite (A-Sat) test in January has produced countless calls for ways and means to strengthen and achieve “space security.” The advocates for space security range from the well-intentioned through to the disingenuous, but all have one thing in common: the state of affairs [...]