The 60-year anniversary of the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, Oct. 4, 1957, finds the space environment very different than when the first human-made object began to orbit the Earth.
Now, only six decades later, space is a very different environment and increasingly “diverse, disruptive, disordered and dangerous.” This has major impacts on both deterrence and future conflict planning.
So writes the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in a recent report, “Escalation and Deterrence in the Second Space Age,” by the CSIS Aerospace Security Project. The full CSIS report can be downloaded here, and the highlights of the report are summarized in this analysis by Breaking Defense.
Both are worth your time.
Now, only six decades later, space is a very different environment and increasingly “diverse, disruptive, disordered and dangerous.” This has major impacts on both deterrence and future conflict planning.
So writes the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in a recent report, “Escalation and Deterrence in the Second Space Age,” by the CSIS Aerospace Security Project. The full CSIS report can be downloaded here, and the highlights of the report are summarized in this analysis by Breaking Defense.
Both are worth your time.
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