The establishment of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) in December 2019 represented the first creation of a new military service in more than 70 years, reflecting the strategic imperative to defend U.S. interests in an increasingly contested space domain. As the service shifts from start-up to mature operations, its challenge is to transform deliberately into a warfighting force purpose-built to contest and control space.
The Chief of Space Operations defines this direction in Space Force Vector 2025 (Saltzman, 2025), which establishes four service-level activities—Force Design, Force Development, Force Generation, and Force Employment—as the primary levers through which the USSF achieves space superiority. These activities implement the service’s theory of success, Competitive Endurance, which is composed of three tenets: avoiding operational surprise, denying first-mover advantage, and conducting responsible counterspace campaigning.
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