The Space Enterprise Initiative is a new one-stop shop for space research and related activities across RAND.
Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA
The initiative builds on long-standing RAND relationships across the national and international space domains to marshal the broad perspectives necessary for optimizing the exercise of space power.
U.S. Air Force leaders and top national security experts gathered at the seventh annual West Coast Aerospace Forum in December 2022. This year's event focused on lessons learned from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and how those experiences will apply to security challenges in the Pacific theater and beyond. These videos include the proceedings from the event's five sessions.
Before a meaningful discussion can be had on whether the United States or an adversary might consider exploiting a perceived first mover advantage and how to prepare strategically for such a move, we need to define what we mean by this phrase. The authors offer a categorization and nuanced views of first moves and advantages in military strategy as a basis for understanding and further analysis of first mover advantage in the space domain.
Click through this timeline of space milestones and research to explore RAND's contributions to humanity's history in space.
