General Says US Military Should Consider a Deconfliction Line for Space
U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt, Director of Operations and Communications, Headquarters United States Space Force, at her promotion ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Aug. 3, 2020. (U.S. Space Force/2nd Lt. Idalí Beltré Acevedo).
4 May 2021
A top commander at U.S. Space Command says it may be time to establish a deconfliction channel between the U.S. and adversary countries to ensure the safety of operations in space.
The Pentagon and international partners are developing guidelines for operating in space, just as international norms govern maritime operations. Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the commander of SPACECOM s Combined Force Space Component Command, said those protocols should include being transparent and predictable with countries such as Russia and China.
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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