Defence policy, space, cyberspace, metaverse, Lunapolitics and geopolitics wonk. Co-founder of @AstroAnalytica Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
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#Germany is moving from being a major user of space services to becoming a military space power. It's planned space force reflects a major shift: Berlin now sees space as an operational domain to be defended, and one in which adversaries’ use may need to be restricted.🧵1/6
The building blocks already exist: the Kensington Treaty, new UK-German space cooperation, @rfa_space at SaxaVord, and the deep-precision-strike programme. Together, London and Berlin could develop shared SDA, responsive launch, & interoperable space control capabilities. 5/6.
The goal should be an Anglo-German contribution to a credible, #NATO European space control enterprise; one able to protect critical space infrastructure, deter coercion, & operate through disruption. Read my latest for @AstroAnalytica END🧵6/6 orbitalforesight.substack.co…
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Read about the future LUFTWAFFE space force and why Britain should work with Germany on Space Control, in our latest @AstroAnalytica edition of ORBITAL FORESIGHT 👇
🇩🇪 Luftwaffe Space Force incoming, set up under Germany's Space Command -- the Weltraumkommando.
Read about it in @AstroAnalytica new ORBITAL FORESIGHT edition, just out. Focus: "Germany's military space rise", and the case for UK-German Space Control
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What happens when an ally can switch off your military capabilities?
Ukraine's reported Starshield restrictions expose a dangerous paradox: a technically resilient satellite constellation can sustain a strategically fragile military force.
A warning for Britain. 1/5🧵
What was once politically unthinkable is becoming thinkable: Washington restricting access to essential military capabilities to influence allied decisions.
The UK must question its dependence on systems whose availability is determined by political decisions made elsewhere. 4/5
The answer isn't technological autarky, but assured access, selective sovereign investment, diversified suppliers, & freedom of military action.
Military dependencies can become strategically intolerable in a crisis. My latest for @AstroAnalytica 5/5 END🧵orbitalforesight.substack.co…
But success creates new interests. Once national warning, long-range fires, and military operations depend on space systems, their availability and freedom of action become strategic concerns. Resilience and passive protection are necessary, but insufficient. 4/5
Poland must now contemplate space control: assuring access and freedom of action for Polish & allies while denying adversaries the use of space. See my latest for @AstroAnalytica 5/5 END🧵orbitalforesight.substack.co…
@BBCNewsnight you missed a real opportunity to have a serious debate on the UK missile defence system proposed by the Tories; pretty much everyone involved in your piece had no idea about the issue, and it showed. The £10B price tag cited by Tories is likely unrealistic…1/2
Strategic analogies are always limited in utility and are often misleading, whether used to think about AI, space, cyberspace, or other issues, and often lead to bad policy, CONOPS, & doctrine. 1/2 foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
