Mar 6, 2020
The United States Space Force is
now officially a thing, complete with a commander and plans to put
about 16,000 members of the military to work defending U.S.
interests in space. But what
exactly does it mean for the U.S. military to “deter aggression” in
space? How could a war in
space happen? And what are American interests in space,
anyway?
This episode,
we’re going to answer those questions as best we can with the help
of four experts on space weapons and policy and strategy: Jeffrey Lewis, professor
at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey,
Calif.; Jonathan
McDowell, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.; Bleddyn Bowen, lecturer in
International Relations at the University of Leicester, in the UK;
and Brian Weeden,
director of Program Planning at the Secure World Foundation. Music
used by permission via Audionetwork.com.
Find a transcript of this episode:
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/03/ep-63-war-space/163611/