Star Tek--Exploiting the Final Frontier

Space superiority, like air superiority today, will be a vital core competency in the year 2025. US national security is already heavily leveraged in space - a trend which will increase in the future. Likewise, other countries and commercial interests will continue to seek the valuable "high ground" of space. Where space interests conflict, hostilities may soon follow. Protecting the use of space and controlling, when required, its omnipresent advantage is the essence of counterspace.This paper demonstrates the need for, and the means by which, counterspace operations will be conducted in the year 2025. A number of factors will drive the need for a robust counterspace capability in 2025.