National Security Space Policy

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Space, simply put, is a contested, competitive, congested, costly, and complex domain. As such, many in the US defense establishment consider space as rapidly becoming a warfighting domain, much as land, sea, and air have been regions of conflict in humanity’s past. How did we get to this point? Where do we go from here? What are the threats the nation faces from potential adversaries in this new warfighting domain? What key deci - sions need to be made, what policies need to be implemented to support these decisions, and then what budgetary considerations are required that will ensure the US and its allies will have free and unfettered access to space? National security space policy is a topic that needed to be stud- ied, debated, and acted upon for, as the saying goes, “the future is now. ”