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Space warfare gets a formal definition thanks to a new strategic document. The U.S. Space Force released “Space Warfighting - A Framework for Planners,” which outlines possible offensive and defensive actions, respectively, such as destroying an adversary’s satellites or “escorting” satellites to protect them, Defense One’s Audrey Decker reports. The goal is to give officials a clear idea of how the Space Force, which has previously avoided publicly discussing offensive and defensive space operations, would approach conflict.
The document debuts “a common framework, common lexicon that we can use in our training and in our education programs, and really write down things that then guardians can argue about and debate and think about and use as a tool in their planning that really is about fighting in the domain,” said Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, Space Force deputy chief of space operations, strategy, plans, programs, and requirements. “It’s not just we're going to fight in space and see who wins the space fight,” he said. “We're going to fight in space to make sure the aircraft carrier doesn't get struck and 5,000 sailors don't go to the bottom of the ocean.” Get the full story here.