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Tight Budgets Mean Space Weaponization will Tradeoff with Modernization Efforts

 

Despite a proposed 7% increase in the Department of Defense (DoD) budget, resources are constrained. The billions of dollars -- some estimates are in the tens of billions -- needed to develop space-based weapon capabilities will take money from transformation efforts that will make greater contributions to the nation's security, both now and in the long term. Retired Navy Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, DoD's new Director of Force Transformation is correct in his oft-stated view that "numbers matter." Weaponizing space will mean fewer ships, planes, tanks, and other platforms capable of taking the fight to the enemy.

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Coleman, Sean J. "Space Based Weapons are Wrong." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. (February 2002): 96. [ 1 reference ] [ page 96 ]

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