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I am more than a bit sceptical about how well this will work out...
 

America’s High-Tech Problem in Low-Tech Wars | Small Wars Journal

In 1997, between two very different wars with Iraq, military historian Williamson Murray highlighted what he saw as a disturbing trend in the US Department of Defense. A newfound obsession with supposedly revolutionary military technologies was sidelining history and strategic studies in...
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NRO, NGA, SPACECOM, Space Force Hammer Out Boundaries - Breaking Defense

UPDATED: Adds Space Command statement from Gen. Dickinson COLORADO SPRINGS: After a series of recent tussles over who manages what in space, National Reconnaissance Office Director Christopher Scolese today announced a new agreement between his office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence...
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“And let’s clear up the way we work with Space Force and SPACECOM. We have a great relationship, as Gen. (Jay) Raymond (of the Space Force) talked and all the other speakers have mentioned,” Scolese said. He noted that he, Raymond, and NASA head Bill Nelson “flew here together on the same plane and had a great conversation about what the future should look like.”

On top of that, the trio spent Sunday night at a reception with Gen. James Dickinson, commander of Space Command, which was, Scolese said, “a fine reception.”

During a press briefing later in the day, Dickinson was asked about the new agreement. He said he had not heard Scolese’s remarks, noting accurately that reporters were “probably not going to be satisfied with this answer.”
 
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'We've Now Entered A New Space Race' As PRC, Russia Plan Moon Base: Sen. Moran - Breaking Defense

"I do not believe that our astronauts, upon returning to the Moon, will want to be welcomed by the Chinese and the Russians. Instead, we should be there to meet them whenever they arrive," Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas says.
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Moran made clear he doesn’t think the US is hopelessly behind, but catching up will require a different acquisition model than the one that propelled America to putting the first humans on another celestial body.

“Our current acquisition model, in which the government dictates the term of a product or a mission, does not work. Government labs are decades behind those of the private sector,” he said. “So why is Washington DC still trying to direct industry to comply with government procedures? The power of the private industry, the power of private industry can only be fully realized. If government does not stand in its way.”
 
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Kendall To Announce Space Acquisition Shake Up - Breaking Defense

Shawn Barnes, who has been serving as the de facto head of Air Force Space Acquisition and Integration (SAF/SP), has been transferred to the role of the director of Air Force Financial Management Legislative Liaison.
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The Air Force was recently put under notice that lawmakers are becoming impatient on the lack of real movement on the issue — which was one of the key rationales for the creation of Space Force in the first place. The House Appropriations Committee sent a shot across the bow last month in its fiscal 2022 budget bill, excoriating the service for what is sees as simply moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.

In particular, the HAC ripped the reorganization of the Space Force’s acquisition office into Space Systems Command, writing that the plan consists “primarily of renaming the Space and Missile Systems Center and incorporating existing space launch units. The plan does not resolve the fundamental issues of overlap and duplication in roles, responsibilities, and authorities among the various other space acquisition units.”

The lawmakers also charged that Space Force lacks a coherent, evidenced-based plan for the future space architecture — i.e. the overarching configuration of the various US military space systems fielded for various missions, from communications to missile warning to positioning, navigation and timing.
 
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Losing Small Wars: Why US Military Culture Leads to Defeat | Small Wars Journal

Mission Command is a philosophy of decentralized decision making. Plans and orders are simply starting points, likely to soon become irrelevant amidst the fog and friction of war – what really matters is the intent of the higher commander which is linked to the overarching purpose of the...
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In a way it's the political culture that leads to defeat. When crime continues in the US and UK year after year do we suspend police operations? Yet when it comes to military operations, that is exactly how politics works.
 
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