Retired Gen. Kevin Chilton, Explorer Chair at the Mitchell Institute’s Space Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE), says the U.S. Space Force needs offensive counterspace capabilities to hold adversaries’ space assets at risk and to ensure U.S. access to space-based communications, precision navigation and timing, missile warning, and targeting when and where its needed by U.S. and allied forces in every domain. Chilton spoke with Air & Space Forces Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Tobias Naegele, at AFA’s 2024 Air, Space & Cyber Conference at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.
Flying and fixing aircraft remains the Air Force’s reason for being, but protecting air bases from attack is becoming an essential component that makes those possible. Following attacks on air bases across the Middle East during Operation Epic Fury, point defense was among the hottest topics on tap at AFA’s…
