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Space Warfighting: A Framework for Planners
Published by U.S. Space Force on April 10, 2025.
The Space Force's planning framework: space control as offensive and defensive counterspace operations, with orbital strike, space link interdiction, and terrestrial strike as the offensive actions. Cover dated March 2025; the served file's own date is April 10, 2025.
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… to operate at a time and place of their choosing without prohibitive interference from space or counterspace threats, while also denying the same to an adversary. United States Space Force 7 --- <!-- page 9 --> United States Space Force Space Warfighting A Framework for Planners Counterspace Operations Space control consists of offensive and defensive actions, referred to collectively as counterspace operations. Counterspace operations are conducted across the orbital, link, and terrestrial segments of the space architecture. Counterspace operations are illustrated in Figure 3, which shows offensive and defensive actions taken to create effects in support of space superiority. It lists and categorizes numerous distinct tasks or missions conducted within the larger framework. Note …
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