NSC Takes Small Step… Is a Giant Leap Coming?

After nearly a year in office, the Biden Administration has made its first statement on the United States’ future as a spacefaring nation. The US position in space is being tested.
Review: The High Frontier

The High Frontier is an inspirational, educational, and deeply emotive documentary companion to Dr. Gerard “Gerry” O’Neill’s seminal book. The original source is a thorough and practical proposal for industrializing and settling our solar system. This film leverages modern technology and expert interviews to explain the key arguments of the book and to present them […]
Review: To Boldly Go…

To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond is an exceptional collection of studies on leadership and strategy culled not from fact, but from fiction. Mastery in the art of war – or business, or life – requires deliberate study. Most often this comes in the form of non-fiction: biographies, […]
Space Force Unveils Human Capital Strategy: Values Are Central to Victory for Lean Force

The United States Space Force (USSF) today revealed a bold new strategy for human capital management — The Guardian Ideal. In it, the Service takes a values-centric approach and lays out a vision for reforming everything from recruiting and retention to professional development and quality of life. Senior leaders see this not just as an optional […]
Give USSF Operational Priorities a Voice

One of the main reasons for a separate USSF is to inform DAF priorities based on emerging threats from space to all domain superiority. Yet this hearing, like so many before, continues to present priorities without including space considerations.
Space Warfighting Culture, Develop or Lose

An interview with CMSgt Jacob Simmons, Command Senior Enlisted Leader at Joint Task Force – Space Defense, who recently published Ascendancy: The Space Warfighter Mindset