How to Institutionalize Space Superiority in the United States Air Force

<p>The Air Force talks about space superiority but as a whole it has not institutionalized space superiority as it has other mission areas such as air superiority. Air superiority is at the heart of what the Air Force does. Everyday airmen go to work and think about plan for wargame and practice air superiority. It is not assumed; it is won. It is woven into the fabric of the Air Force and understood as essential at every level. That is what the Air Force must do to institutionalize space superiority-weave it into the fabric of the Air Force and make it a top priority mission to be won rather than assumed. Institutionalizing space superiority would require making space superiority an established clearly identifiable mission with formal discernible organizational structures that standardize practices and approaches and codify officially sanctioned beliefs. The result of institutionalization would be to take space superiority and make it a mainstream mission of the Air Force. All air professionals should understand the basic concepts and requirements and why space superiority is important. All space professionals should do their everyday jobs with the knowledge that space superiority is essential that it must be taken in to account at every level at every step and that without it all other space missions are vulnerable. The Air Force can institutionalize space superiority in five steps designed to create operational Counterspace doctrine emphasize the Counterspace mission area create an identifiable and interactive space superiority community inculcate space superiority mission concepts and create a global Counterspace command structure.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>