{"id":84462,"date":"2025-04-17T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/04\/17\/new-space-force-warfighting-framework-sharpens-weaponization-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:19:20","slug":"new-space-force-warfighting-framework-sharpens-weaponization-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2025\/04\/17\/new-space-force-warfighting-framework-sharpens-weaponization-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"New Space Force \u2018warfighting framework\u2019 sharpens weaponization plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Force has been upping its rhetoric around the need for weapons in space \u2014 and on Thursday it issued a framework <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceforce.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4156245\/us-space-force-defines-path-to-space-superiority-in-first-warfighting-framework\/\" target=\"_blank\">meant to provide a \u201cwarfighting\u201d lens<\/a> for planners, operators and weapons buyers on how the service views the use of military power in a domain long viewed as benign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The release of the Space Warfighting Framework comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stresses the need for the U.S. military to adopt a stronger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2025\/02\/19\/space-force-lacks-warfighting-ethos-experts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwarfighting mentality\u201d<\/a> and as the service prepares to argue its case for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2025\/01\/03\/money-musk-and-mission-creep-how-trump-could-shape-dods-space-drift\/\" target=\"_blank\">a larger share of funding<\/a> in the fiscal 2026 budget cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Space Force officials say that while the document aligns with Pentagon messaging and supports its case for more resources, releasing the framework is part of the natural growth trajectory for the service, which was established five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, deputy chief of space operations for strategy, plans, programs and requirements, told reporters Wednesday the service spent its first few years building its organizational structure and has shifted in recent years to ensuring it has the strategy, doctrine and codified processes in place to guide current and future operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis space warfighting document is sort of in the vein of the natural maturing of the Space Force,\u201d Bratton said in a briefing at the Pentagon. \u201cThis document is very specific to our core function of space control and how we think about warfighting in space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The language the Defense Department uses to describe conflict in space has changed over time. For years, officials would use terms like \u201ccongested\u201d and \u201ccontested\u201d to discuss growing threats in the domain and \u201cprotect and defend\u201d as a vague indicator of how the U.S. would respond to those concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Force\u2019s ability to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2025\/03\/18\/china-demonstrated-satellite-dogfighting-space-force-general-says\/\" target=\"_blank\"> talk more freely and clearly<\/a> about its approach to warfighting evolved in the last few years and in recent months, as officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2025\/04\/15\/space-force-meadowlands-jammer-ready-for-formal-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">have touted the need for space weapons<\/a> to keep up with Russia and China. Bratton said the release of the warfighting framework reflects that change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think now we\u2019ve sort of matured and arrived at a place where we\u2019re comfortable saying that, hey, this is a warfighting domain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The framework\u2019s primary function is to define key terms and concepts so that its internal stakeholders have a common lexicon and external partners understand how the Space Force thinks about maintaining dominance in the domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, the document provides a detailed list of defensive and offensive space actions. 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That could includes launch vehicles or other ground networks and facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document notes that coordination across the joint force is crucial, as operators in all domains are increasingly reliant on space capabilities to perform their missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot only are space operations global, they are also multi-domain,\u201d the document states. \u201cA successful attack against the terrestrial, link or orbital segment can neutralize a space capability; therefore, space domain access, maneuver and utilization require deliberate and synchronized offensive and defensive operations across all segments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The framework also defines targets, to include ground networks, communication and data links that help transport information and on-orbit capabilities like satellites. It lays out variables that operators should consider as they plan a response, and it discusses the process for prioritizing and engaging targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bratton noted that the document itself doesn\u2019t represent a change in policy or rules of engagement around how weapons may be employed in space, rather it spells out the existing process as it applies to space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also intentionally broad and describes capabilities the department may not have now but could have in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not intended to imply that we have all developed all these capabilities or weapons or any of those things, but it certainly is intended to start that discussion about what we do need to compete and win in space during conflict specifically,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The framework\u2019s primary function is to define key 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