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May 2021 China Space War Simulation Readings

  • “CSO: Space is the ‘Wild, Wild West,’ Requiring New Norms for Operating in Orbit,” By Brian W. Everstine. Air Force Magazine. April 30, 2021.
  • “Reducing space threats through norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours,” United States of America National Submission to the United Nations Secretary General Pursuant to UN General Assembly Resolution 75/36, April 29, 2021.
  • “China is continuously creating legends in space: Global Times editorial,” By Global Times, April 30, 2021.
  • “China is developing plans for a 13,000-satellite megaconstellation,” By Andrew Jones, April 21, 2021. SpaceNews.
  • “The Future of Security in Space: A Thirty-Year US Strategy,” By Clementine G. Starling, Mark J. Massa, Christopher P. Mulder, and Julia T. Siegel, April 2021. Atlantic Council.
  • “China’s Order of Battle: Ground-Based Lasers,” By Brian G. Chow and Brandon W. Kelley, April 18, 2021.
  • “China’s Order of Battle: Dual-Use Rendezvous Spacecraft in 2027 and 2029,” By Brian G. Chow and Brandon W. Kelley, April 18, 2021.
  • “Why the U.S. and China Should Collaborate in Space,” By Will Marshall and Chris Hadfield. TIME. April 15, 2021.
  • “DoD space agency: Cyber attacks, not missiles, are the most worrisome threat to satellites,” By Sandra Erwin. April 14, 2021. SpaceNews
  • “Chinese Foreign Ministry calls for promptly starting talks on space arms control,” Space War. April 14, 2021.
  • “Countering China’s Rendezvous Spacecraft, Ground-Based Lasers, and Electronic Jammers in the 2020s and Beyond,” By Brian G. Chow and Brandon W. Kelley. April 8, 2021.
  • “China’s Space Ambitions and Future Goals,” By Namrata Goswami. April 2021.
  • “Chinese Direct Ascent Anti-satellite Testing,” By Brian Weeden, April 2021, Secure World Foundation.
  • “Chinese Military and Intelligence Rendezvous and Proximity Operations,” By Marissa Martin, Kaila Pfrang, and Brian Weeden, April 2021, Secure World Foundation.
  • “International Law Limitations of Offensive Military Activities in Space,” By Andrea Harrington. April 2021.
  • “Japan and South Korea’s Space Programs,” By Sam Wilson, April 2021.
  • “Coming soon: China’s space war against the US,” By Brandon J. Weichert. Asia Times. April 8, 2021.
  • “The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Space-to-Space Engagements,” By Rebecca Reesman and James R. Wilson, The Aerospace Corporation, Center for Space Policy and Strategy, October 2020.
  • “A Comprehensive Approach to Space Deterrence,” By Dean Cheng and John Klein. The Strategy Bridge. March 31, 2021.
  • “Defense Against the Dark Arts In Space,” Foreword By Doug Loverro, Report By Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, & Makena Young. Center for Strategic and International Studies. February 2021.
  • “Posturing Space Forces for Operations Beyond GEO,” By David Buehler, Eric Felt, Charles Finley, Peter Garretson, Jaime Stearns, and Andy Williams. Space Force Journal. January 31, 2021.
  • “China’s Space Narrative: Examining the Portrayal of the US-China Space Relationship in Chinese Sources and its Implications for the United States,” By Kevin Pollpeter, Timothy Ditter, Anthony Miller, and Brian Waidelich. China Aerospace Studies Institute. September 10, 2020.
  • “What War in Space Might Look Like Circa 2030-2040?,” By Peter Garretson. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. August 13, 2020.
  • “The Influence of Commercial Space Capabilities on Deterrence,” By John J. Klein. Center for a New American Security. March 25, 2019.
  • “Rethinking Requirements and Risk in the New Space Age,” By John J. Klein. Center for a New American Security. January 15, 2019.
  • “Space, the New Domain: Space Operations and Chinese Military Reforms,” By Kevin Pollpeter. Journal of Strategic Studies. August 22, 2016.
  • “The Conceptual Evolution of China’s Military Space Operations and Strategy,” By Kevin Pollpeter and Jonathan Ray. China’s Evolving Military Strategy. Brookings Institution Press, Jamestown Foundation. 2016.
  • “China Dream, Space Dream: China’s Progress In Space Technologies and Implications for the United States,” By Kevin Pollpeter, Eric Anderson, Jordan Wilson and Fan Yang. U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. March 2, 2015.
  • “The Evolution and Significants of the 1972 Incidents at Sea Agreement,” By David F. Winkler, Journal of Strategic Studies, 2005.
  • “When Russia invaded Disneyland,” By David F. Winkler, United States Naval Institute.  Proceedings; Annapolis Vol 123, Issue 5, May 1997.
  • “Satellites and Anti-Satellites: The Limits of the Possible,” By Ashton B. Carter. International Security, The MIT Press. Vol. 10, No. 4. 1986.

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