From Sanctuary to Battlefield: A Framework for a U.S. Defense and Deterrence Strategy for Space

JANUARY 27, 2016 

Elbridge Colby 

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Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby takes on the challenge laid out by senior U.S. defense officials to help develop a new defense and deterrence strategy for space in light of the growing challenges to the U.S. space architecture. In the report, Colby argues that the United States must prepare to fight and prevail in a limited war in and affecting space, and lays out a framework for how the United States can best do so in ways that are both effective and also stabilizing.