Last month, the US Department of Defense released the unclassified summary of a new strategy to help the US Space Force and other branches of the military ensure that the US can compete, deter and win a contest in space.
A key focus of the US defense space strategy is on the importance of engaging with allies in a contested and complex space domain. It states that the department ‘must enhance space cooperation with international partners and commercial entities, many of whose space capabilities are integral to collective security’. The aim is to ‘promote burden-sharing with our allies and partners, developing and leveraging cooperative opportunities in policy, strategy, capabilities and operational realms’.
