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Theresa Hitchens on January 28, 2021 at 4:31 PM
Gen. James Dickinson
UPDATED TO INCLUDE LINK TO THE VISION DOCUMENT. WASHINGTON: In his new Commander’s Vision, the head of Space Command says leading the fight to prevent adversaries from disabling or destroying US space assets is his new focus.
“The intended audience is both internal and external,” Army Gen. James Dickinson told me in an interview yesterday. “Internally, the objective is to set the stage for SPACECOM personnel to develop and sustain a warfighting mindset necessary for our mission challenges in this new warfighting domain.”
Key to the vision is achieving “space superiority” a loaded term to the public and US allies, but in military parlance ‘superiority’ simply means being able to use the domain and keep the enemy from doing the same. “We must have fully integrated offensive and defensive operations across all of our services, as well as our partners,” he told me. “And I think
Colorado’s federal lawmakers on Tuesday launched a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to stop the move of U.S. Space Command pending a probe into the Trump administration’s decision
President Donald Trump has awarded U.S. Space Command to Huntsville Ala., in a move that several Pentagon insiders and lawmakers say bypassed the military’s top pick of Colorado Springs, the
President Donald Trump has awarded U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Ala., in a move Wednesday that several Pentagon insiders and lawmakers say bypassed the military’s top pick of Colorado Springs, the unit s current home, because of political considerations.
It’s a decision that Colorado lawmakers say they will ask President-elect Joe Biden to overturn and has caused Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Trump loyalist, to break with the administration. The move also will likely kick off a congressional probe into how the decision was reached.
“I am extremely disappointed. I have never been so disappointed in my whole life,” Lamborn said. “I believe, based on inside information, that politics must have played a role. By any standard, Colorado would come out on top of any competition.”
Spend funds on space dominance, not moving Space Command’s headquarters Rep. Doug Lamborn December 18, 2020 The U.S. Space Force shows off its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Boeing and U.S. Space Force via AP) There is a growing consensus in Washington that 2021 will see a flattening of U.S. defense spending in fiscal 2022 and beyond. This is even more likely under the incoming Biden administration, despite consistent testimony by our military leaders that we need 3-5 percent real growth in the defense budget to maintain our competitive edge over our near-peer competitors, Russia and China. Tough choices will have to be made, but the priority in our reorientation toward great power competition should be shoring up American space dominance. Some of our nation’s most experienced space war fighters have explained why this is the case.