MSS 382 Space Power Theory

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MSS 382Space Power Theory

• New MSS Elective currently scheduled for 11
  cadets
• Proposed Text Space Power Theory by Jim Oberg
• Encourages cadets to innovate beyond current
  doctrinal boundaries by learning to think
  theoretically about air and space power
• Identify / examine existing propositions,
  frameworks and assumptions of both air power and
  space power doctrine and strategy
• Generate critique alternatives to current
  approaches to air and space power
• Examine current and notional characteristics of
  aerospace platforms and debate critical
  theoretical issues such as the integration and/or
  separation of air and space power
• Final exam. Prereq None. Sem hrs 3. Fall.

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Battlespace Awareness Warfighting Laboratory
(BAWL)

• Educate cadets in battlespace awareness to better
  facilitate their understanding the numerous
  military assets role in military strategy

• Objectives
• Integrate the Warrior Spirit in education
• Apply classroom learned theories and concepts
  to a high fidelity battlespace environment
• Foundation for cadet situational awareness of
  battlespace
• Satisfies SECAF endorsed USAFA Core Initiative
  001F.1 Core Initiative 003A.2
• World-class, one-of-a-kind facility

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Program Aim Higher

• PROJECT Aim Higher (PAH) will show cadets the
  value of space by educating them on space
  environment, capabilities, orbital strategies,
  application in military strategies, operations,
  integration into joint forces, and future
  potential.
• PAH will be part of the 34 Education Group (34
  EG) Military Strategic Studies (MSS) program and
  administered by the 34 Education Squadron (34 ES)
• Cadets will achieve 16 PAH learning objectives
  that pertain to space at various levels of cadet
  interest
• Four-level educational system
• Level 4 will provide cadets with space-awareness
  education for those cadets pursuing non-space
  majors and careers
• Level 3 will be more in depth and target cadets
  that are planning to be space officers
• Level 2 will dive deeper for those cadets that
  major in Space Operations or MSS
• Level 1, deeper still, for cadets who major in
  space and pursue a space career
• Cadets would be authorized to wear a cadet space
  badge to designate their participation
• An MSS instructor will direct/facilitate PAH and
  liaison with AFSPC, Space Warfare Center (SWC),
  and Space Operations School (SOPSC)
• Eventually this PROJECT would become a Cadet
  Space Operations and Strategy School (CSOSS)
• SWC offered to split the cost of setting up the
  facility, which will be the located in the former
  TWOC in Vandenberg Hall.