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Newberry, Robert D. Spacepower as a Coercive Force. Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Air University, 2003. [ 1 reference ]

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Force-Projection Space Weapons could become a Decisive Force

 

Military applications are an area where spacepower could become a decisive force. Although spacepower has been focused on developing information power since the cancellation of the dyna-soar and manned orbiting laboratory, this may not continue to be the case in the future. The development of military spaceplanes and kinetic weapons operating in and through space is both feasible and affordable by the US. Space-to-earth impacting munitions could readily and easily destroy key infrastructure in adversary countries and make it nearly impossible to conduct normal operations. These weapons would also enjoy a lack of effective countermeasures for many years, if ever. Additionally, space-based kinetic weapons could hold the most feared adversary capabilities at risk such a hard and deeply buried targets associated with weapons of mass destruction. Just the demonstration of such weapons could be decisive in compelling an adversary to comply with US demands. ( More ... )

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Newberry, Robert D. Spacepower as a Coercive Force. Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Air University, 2003. [ 1 reference ]

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