The Indispensable Domain: The Critical Role of Space in JADC2

Abstract：Coming out of the Cold War, the U.S. military possessed the capabilities and capacity to dominate global military operations when and where it chose. Due to three decades of budget-driven force structure divestments, this is no longer the case, and U.S. military capabilities and capacity simply have not tracked with growing peer adversary threats. Furthermore, adversary strategies that prioritize information and decision-making superiority indicate that success in future wars will go to the side that possesses better battlespace knowledge, makes better decisions, more efficiently directs its forces, and closes kill chains faster.