Space Support to Military Operations Other Than War--A Necessity for Success. An HTML Tool

Abstract

Abstract : In the military's planning and execution of our National Security and National Military Strategy, space support, mainly as a force enhancement, has become a critical link in the chain that ensures the national security of the United States. The National Security Strategy (NSS) and National Military Strategy (NMS) require that we be engaged all over the world. This policy of global engagement and deterrence has led to many Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) throughout the world. Today's military commanders rely heavily on timely and precise information for success in such operations. Space support has become the primary source of this information and is a necessity both in peacetime and during crisis situations. The purpose of this HTML based tool is to investigate how space support, as a force enhancement, critically plays in the success of MOOTW. This is basically accomplished in the tool through a discussion of the types of MOOTW, key space doctrine for ground operations, specific space force enhancement systems and how they support MOOTW, and an example of how space has been key to the successful MOOTW in Bosnia. Joint Publications, service doctrine, recent articles, and the Internet were used to gather the information for this tool. The tool is broken into eight sections: (1) Introduction, (2) Spectrum of Conflict, (3) MOOTW, (4) Space Doctrine, (5) Space Support, (6) Operational Examples, (7) Conclusions, and (8) Sources and Contacts.