America’s Troops Must Prepare Now for Warfare on Moon, Top General Says
Gen. Dan Caine said U.S. forces must be ready to fight in cislunar space as China and Russia expand counterspace capabilities.
- On Monday, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink acknowledged the United States has stationed on-orbit space control weapons to defend the joint force against hostile adversary action.
- Beijing and Moscow are testing counterspace capabilities to disrupt and degrade American assets, according to a Space Force fact sheet, as the Chinese army expects space to play a critical role in future conflicts.
- Russia regards space as "a warfighting domain and believes space supremacy will be a decisive factor in future conflicts," while 95 nations including the United States and China remain signatories of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
- Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this week that American armed forces must prepare to win wars in all domains, including the cislunar region extending to the moon.
- Established during President Donald Trump's first administration, the Space Force recognizes space as a contested warfighting domain where military forces must operate without the assumptions of uncontested access.
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Top USAF general tells troops to begin preparation for battles on the Moon, 'adapt right now'
American troops may soon be fighting pitched battles on the moon. That’s the opinion of Air Force General. Dan Caine, who, in a speech yesterday at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Maryland, urged service members and defense leaders to take the prospect of space warfare seriously. As per Stars and Stripes, General Caine explained that troops, “must adapt right now, so the joint force is prepared to fight, endure, and win in global conteste…
The American military needs to prepare for combat not only in Earth orbit, but also around the Moon, as announced by General Dan Kane, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Kane made such a statement a few days after the US first announced the launch of space weapons.
Dan Kane, Chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, said that US troops should be ready to confront the enemy in lunar space and on the Moon itself. Speaking at a conference of the Air and Space Forces Association in Maryland, the head of the committee stressed the need to adapt troops to global combat environments, including near-moon space. Defense One experts note that we are talking about readiness for war near or …
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