On Space-Power Separatism
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commander of coa li tion air forces during Opera tion De sert Storm and later head of Air Force Space Command and US Space Command (CINCS PACE), created something of a stir when he questioned whether the US Air Force should continue to run military space sys tems: " If the Air Force clings to its owner ship of space, then tradeoffs will be made between air and space, when in fact the tradeoff should be made elsewhere. " 1 Al though General Horner made his asser tion based on budget ary consid era tions, his remarks en cour aged Air Force offi cers who, using the origi nal leaders of the US Air Force as role mod els, argue for a separate " space service. " Space-power enthu si asts see themselves as modern coun ter parts to the early airpower vision ar ies and often draw paral lels between the rise of air-power and the rise of space power. Both origi nated in a desire to occupy the " high ground " and maintain a command ing perspec tive of the sur face bat tle field. Air-to-air and air-to-surface com bat arose and flourished in the flames of two world wars, leading eventu ally to the crea tion of inde pend ent air forces as air offi cers sought to set free a new and poten tially deci sive arm of military force from surface-warfare paradigms. 2 If, as Billy Mitchell said, " airpower is the abil ity to do something in the air, " then one can say that space power is the ability to do something in space. Unfor tu nately, over 40 years af ter the first satel lite orbited the Earth, we still can not oper ate in space nearly as easily or rou tinely as air forces could oper ate within a dec ade of the Wright brothers' first flight.
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