FPI / August 6, 2021
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The woke United States military under Team Biden has adopted an inadequate information strategy to contend with China’s growing military clout, critics say.
That lame strategy, critics added, now extends to space.
In a memorandum to senior Pentagon and military leaders last month, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin outlined what he called key elements of “responsible behavior in space.”
“As more actors come to space, the domain is changing, with an increased risk of collisions, as well as of miscalculations or misunderstandings,” Austin said in the July 7 memo cited in a report for the Washington Times by security correspondent Bill Gertz.
“It is incumbent on the department to continue space leadership through demonstrating and acknowledging responsible behavior in space.”
The memo directed all Pentagon and military agencies to conduct space operations in line with “tenets of responsible behavior.”
Space forces will operate in, from, to and through space with “regard for others” along with “a professional manner.”
The Austin memorandum was signed around the same time that Rear Adm. Michael Bernacchi, Space Command’s director of strategy, plans and policy, warned that China is engaged in a large-scale, rapid buildup of space warfare capabilities.
Adm. Bernacchi said the speed of the deployment of anti-satellite missiles, electronic jammers and robot satellite killers is scary.
“The thing that scares me the most: If you go back six years ago, China had almost nothing,” he said. “Now you look at them, and the ability for China to exponentially grow their counter-space capability is scary. I mean, I don’t know how else to put it.”
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