Historical Studies for Space
TOPIC SPONSORS: 45 SW/MU & SPOC/2SWS/DOC
How did the tracking of commercial satellites by the Commerce Department and military satellites by the Defense Department develop historically? How did that collaboration in tracking materialize? How will it evolve in the future with the establishment of the USSF? What impact did the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union have on U.S. military space strategy? (45 SW/MU) Are there any lessons learned from the post-Vietnam era that can prepare the US for CDO space operations? (SPOC/2SWS/DOC)
- Haun, Major Derek, "US Civil-Military Space Relations—Implications for the National Space Council Informed by the Air Coordinating Committee (1945-1960)," SAASS thesis, 2022, 88 pgs.
- Jodice, Maj. Laurel, "Public Opinion and the Development of a Spaceminded America," SAASS Thesis, 2021, 80 pgs.
- Rice, Maj. Dennis M., "Deterrence and Space Strategy: A Framework from the Study of History and Theory," published as an AU Press Schriever Paper (2023)
- Pambianchi, Major Johan and Major Jason Holt, "Advancing America's Space Characterization Ecosystem: An Organizational, Technological and Data-Driven Approach to Addressing Tomorrow's Space Conflicts," ACSC Paper, 2021, 118 pgs. PRIZE: Spaatz
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- Rodriguez, Adriana M., "To Infinity and Beyond! Why Space Force Needs CCP," AWC elective paper, 2020, 11 pgs.
- Slaughter, Bryony, "The Wrath of Khong: Science Fiction, Future Analogies and Early Military Space Policy," SAASS thesis, 2020.
- Ziarnick, Brent D., "Tough Tommy's Space Force: General Thomas S. Power and the Air Force Space Program," SAASS thesis, 2016, 154 pgs.
- Zweibelson, Ben, "Reconceptualizing the Space Domain beyond Historic Perspectives of Warfare," published as an AU Press Schriever Paper (2023), 59 pgs.