And once again, the FY25 award for best Budget Request Pie Chart goes to the Space Force. 🙄 Defense Charts

My story on the WH commercial space rulemaking framework is finally up. breakingdefense.com/2023/12/new-bi…

Sec. State Blinken at today's National Space Council today stressed continued diplomatic efforts to expand Artemis Accords, now with 33 signatories; and establish an international norm against testing of ASAT missile tests, with 36 countries now on board.

So happy to see that War on the Rocks has listed 'Power Up: Leadership, Character, and Conflict Beyond the Superhero Multiverse' on its 2023 Reading List! warontherocks.com/2023/12/the-20…

National tSpace Council draft bill on regulation of new space spit out today: breakingdefense.com/2023/11/white-…

More space shenanigans at the UN. breakingdefense.com/2023/11/un-tak…

Remember, Kids, X-37B is just a test aircraft. 🙄 space.com/space-force-pa…

I was on the UAP Beat today, and am proud of me for restraining from making X-Files, Peruvian Alien Mummies, or other other non-serious commentary. All y'all, please don't go there either (and I'm so not even reading comments.) breakingdefense.com/2023/09/nasa-d…

Space Force has a snappy new mission statement, based on words first penned in the GW Bush 2006 National Space Policy. breakingdefense.com/2023/09/space-…

No old soldier wants to dig a new foxhole, so fact that military space brass for years have argued to keep SPACECOM HQ in CO ought not to be surprising. The latest in the battle: breakingdefense.com/2023/08/congre…

Pre-orders opened on Amazon. Going to be a fun read, folks! amazon.com/Power-Leadersh…

ICYMI, Andrew Cox, first head of USSF's Space Warfighting Analysis Center, in a bit of a surprise announced on LinkedIn that he is 'moving on' to undisclosed pastures. Breaking Defense See: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Wow. Guess he didn't want to face a hostile crowd. Breaking Defense

This was one of the things that struck me too. The other is that despite law requiring DoD to report SAPs to Congress, that does not seem to be happneing. Breaking Defense

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Well that's not good. And no word from the 18th on what is going on, either.

Read this. And stay tuned for my essay, 'Could The Sokovia Accords Save The (Real) World?' on how 9 men with their fingers on nuclear buttons hold the planet hostage in the forthcoming book POWER UP! from Casemate. thenation.com/article/world/…

20 members of the Council on the Foreign and Defense policy (including Arbatov, Dvorkin, Zolotarev etc) write an open letter denouncing preventive nuclear use. Karaganov, who suggested that Russia should use nukes first, is Council’s Honorary Chairman svop.ru/main/48156/