Space Strategy.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the First Edition of Stratégie Spatiale (2011) -- Notice to Readers -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space: The Final Frontier of Strategy -- 1. Space Strategy: From Words to Actions -- 1.1. Geostrategy of space and space strategy -- 1.2. Principles and methods to the systemic analysis approach -- 1.3. Debris, laser and spaceplane -- 1.4. Conclusion -- 2. Strategic Space: What Are the Limits? -- 2.1. Physical limits of outer space -- 2.2. Functional limits of space and outer space -- 2.3. Judicial limit of outer space -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. How Can We Reach Space and Then Act Within It? -- 3.1. Piercing the gravitational opacity -- 3.1.1. How to reach space? -- 3.1.2. What are the trajectories followed by spatial vehicles? -- 3.1.3. How to navigate in space? -- 3.2. Utilizing physical and radioelectric radiation -- 3.3. Space positions worth occupying or controlling -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Space: What Are the Strategic Stakes? -- 4.1. Centripetal force of terrestrial strategic stakes -- 4.2. Centrifugal weakness of an autonomous strategic space factor -- 4.3. Space as strategic vector of information dominance -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 5. Fighting Against Earth from Space? -- 5.1. Militarized space: global support -- 5.2. Weaponized space: celestial offensive -- 5.3. "Martialized" space: the alternative way -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 6. Fighting Against Space from Earth? -- 6.1. Space situational awareness -- 6.2. Whoever controls the low ground controls the high ground -- 6.3. Space and nuclear: deterred deterrence? -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 7. Combat within Space? -- 7.1. Small Earth space strategy -- 7.2. Strategic expansion of aerospace -- 7.3. The great lunar and Lagrangian strategy -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 8. Twelve Principles of Space Strategy.

8.1. The four "preliminary principles" of space strategy -- 8.1.1. Know what is happening in space -- 8.1.2. Elicit a sense of wonder turned toward the stars -- 8.1.3. Inform and train -- 8.1.4. Invest in the long term -- 8.2. The four "cardinal principles" of space strategy -- 8.2.1. Access space autonomously -- 8.2.2. Protect or attack the low ground to defend or defeat the high ground -- 8.2.3. Neutralize without destroying -- 8.2.4. Recreate the fog of war to one's advantage -- 8.3. The four "complementary principles" of space strategy -- 8.3.1. Take advantage of the specificities of space -- 8.3.2. Promote and protect non-physical lines of communications -- 8.3.3. Develop space resilience -- 8.3.4. Contribute to the global strategy -- 8.4. Conclusion -- 9. Moving Beyond Space Strategy -- 9.1. The four "i"s: indispensable, invisible, imaginary, inescapable -- 9.2. Space warrant to and part of mankind's global commons -- 9.3. Space: platform for irenology -- 9.4. Conclusion -- Conclusion: Space, Shield or Shroud of Humanity? -- Postface -- Appendix 1: Physical Limits of Outer Space -- A1.1. Density -- A1.2. Pressure -- A1.3. Composition -- A1.4. Mass -- A1.5. Temperature -- A1.6. Ionization -- A1.7. Magnetism -- A1.8. Gravity -- A1.9. Physiological effects -- A1.10. Effects on vehicles -- A1.11. Conclusion -- Appendix 2: Kepler's Laws -- A2.1. Kepler's first law or "law orf orbits" (1609) -- A2.2. Kepler's second law or "law of areas" (1609) -- A2.3. Kepler's third law or "law of periods" (1618) -- A2.4. Terminological clarifications -- Appendix 3: Space Law -- Appendix 4: Excerpt from the Report of the Legal Subcommittee of UN OOSA on Its Fifty-Fourth Session - Held in Vienna from April 13-27, 2015¹ -- A4.1. Matters relating to the legal definition and delimitation of outer space.

A4.2. Report of the Chair of the Working Group on the Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space -- Appendix 5: Detailed Description of "Two-Line Element (TLE)" Orbital Parameters -- Appendix 6: "We Choose to Go to the Moon" -- How to Use This Glossary -- G.1. Translation of an official French word -- G.2. Other words -- G.3. Remark pertaining to the use of references in the following glossary -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Main Internet Sites¹ -- Index -- EULA.

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