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Space Force commander Gen. Chance Saltzman today released a brand-new "Commander's Note" to Guardians that included a snappy new "mission statement" for the organization: "secure our Nation's interests in, from, and to space." This indicates a broad mandate for future warfighting.
While the president and Congress are responsible for deciding the Space Force's real goal, Saltzman explains in his 16th "C-Note," which was obtained by Breaking Defense, that the Space Force does have some control over "the words we use to describe the mission."
In his most recent message, Saltzman requests that Guardians use the new mission statement to "educate and inform our sister service members, the American public, and our allies and partners" on the purpose of the Space Force.
Whether deliberate or not, Saltzman's usage of the phrase "in, from, and to space" echoes the President George W. Bush's October 2006 National Space Strategy and carries a significant amount of political baggage. The plan at the time, which included similar wording, was extremely divisive, in large part because it implied support for the employment of space-based weapons. (In fact, the Pentagon committed money for research and development to examine many kinds of space-based weapons during Bush's presidency.)
Even though the secretary of the Air Force has occasionally mentioned "hard kill" capabilities in the heavens, the Defense Department and the Space Force continue to be circumspect about even using the word "weapons" in speaking or writing about plans for countering enemy space systems, much less about weapons actually placed in orbit.
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