Forces depend on information. Space-based sensors will provide much of this information. Virtually all other information will flow through space at some point. On the verge of a commercial space explosion. Space is an emerging area of vital national interest.
Space is critical to both military and economic instruments of power.
We will be challenged. Adversaries will likely not confront US conventional forces. Space could be part of an attractive asymmetric strategy to inflict great damage on the nation. Military must be ready. Our nation's growing dependence on space cannot become a vulnerability.