Each branch of the military needs at least two things to succeed: a clear mission and a sufficient budget. The U.S. Space Force so far has only one of them.

The chief of space operations, Gen. Chance Saltzman, laid out the mission quite clearly in his “ Space Warfighting – A Framework for Planners ” earlier this year: “to achieve space superiority — to ensure freedom of movement in space for our forces while denying the same to our adversaries.”

Saltzman is correct. Unfortunately, the Space Force’s budget does not reflect this priority.

We have long understood that the first responsibility of our warfighters is to control the domains in which they operate — land, air, sea, cyber and space. It’s why we have an Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force. Each service trains, or

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