Start Line: Targeting an Adversary's Space Capabilities Begins with the Terrestrial Segment

摘要

Negating our enemy's capability to take advantage of Space-based capabilities is a basic objective in our Space control doctrine. The need to maintain the friendly use of Space while denying its use to our opponents will clearly be critical to Army Objective Force success on the future battlefield. Understanding how and why our adversary uses Space is an important aspect of the Space portion of our intelligence preparation of the battlespace (IPB) doctrine. Using that IPB to determine how to most effectively take that capability away from our enemy is the desired end-state. The satellite, the on- orbit segment of the Space system, seems to get most of the attention when we consider an adversary's use of a Space-based capability. But is the terrestrial segments of the Space system that control and task the satellite and deliver the product or service to the user that are, for virtually every Space-based capability in use today, the most vulnerable parts of that Space system. Accordingly, the ground-based part of an adversary's Space system deserves the most detailed scrutiny in the IPB and targeting process.