Key components include the re-established United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), the new United States Space Force (USSF), and a national space policy that calls for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to once again send Americans-including the first woman-to the Moon. The Trump administration has departed, leaving a transformed national security space enterprise in its wake.
Much has changed in the five short years since Professor Johnson-Freese wrote this book. Although Johnson-Freese worries that acknowledging the contested nature of the space domain may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, it would be an even more grave strategic error to ignore the counterspace threats emanating from countries such as China and Russia (pp. In fact, deterrence is the first and primary goal of the US space security strategy, but it is extremely hard to achieve and preserve without credible capability to defend friendly assets and defeat enemy aggression. However, in deprecating these allegedly simplistic formulations, Johnson-Freese sometimes fails to recognize the truth that they express. 26-27) or summarize our military’s purpose there as to “deter, defend against, and defeat aggression” (p. For example, Johnson-Freese disdains alliterative catchphrases that describe space as “congested, contested, and competitive” (pp. Published in the first year of the Trump administration, Space Warfare in the 21st Century calls on US national leaders to eschew bellicose rhetoric, while acting and communicating in ways that the author contends will enhance stability and security in outer space. In Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens, US Naval War College professor Joan Johnson-Freese argues for a comprehensive space strategy that downplays the role of “deterrence by punishment,” which Johnson-Freese claims tends to inflame, rather than deter, an arms race in space. Green (Space Training and Readiness Command)Ĭommissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Space Warfare in the 21st Century: Arming the Heavens. What began in December of 1989 at a seminary in Massachusetts, was finally completed and published in July of 2006 by 4L Press, a publishing company he started.ĭavid is an active member of Amicus Books Literary Lounge.Joan Johnson-Freese. Not wanting to forget the unusual story of how, in his fire-fighting days, he had changed from strong atheist to born-again Christian, David began his memoir, Out of the Fire. When the ministry disbanded in 1980, he worked at various jobs, eventually married, raised three children and started a house-painting business.
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While working for his room and board plus four dollars a week, he was able to experience what Christian family meant. He lived in a communal Christian ministry for five years.
He spent four years on a helicopter crew, two years on ground-tanker crews and the final two years on the Rogue River Hotshot crew in Southern Oregon.Īfter experiencing a religious conversion in his last year in Oregon, he moved to the Yuba City area in September of 1974. He paid his way through college by fighting fires for the Forest Service, mostly in the Klamath National Forest, working eight seasons in all.
He spent the Summer of Love (1967) living in Berkeley. While in college, he fell in with the drug-scene-just then starting to sweep the nation-and was among the first group of college students busted for drugs at Humboldt. Even then he wanted to be a writer, publishing in the campus literary magazine and self-publishing his first book, a fictional memoir called Waiting for the Dawn. Instead, after seven years, he graduated with a double major in music and political science. David Hobbs came to California from Ohio in 1965 to major in forestry at Humboldt State College to prepare for his dream job as Forest Ranger with the U.S.
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