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CIAO DATE: 10/01
Excerpts from the Secretary of Defense's Annual Report to the President 2001
The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
21st Secretary of Defense
The Defense Monitor, Volume 30, Issue #2
February 2001
"Unimpeded access to and use of space is and will remain a vital national interest. Space is now part of the tactical battlefield and its use is growing." (108)
"U.S. space systems are national property afforded the right of passage through and operations in space without interference. In this regard, space is much like the high seas and international airspace. . . . Purposeful interference with U.S. space systems will be viewed as an infringement on U.S. sovereign rights." (108)
"The mission of space control is to ensure the freedom of action in space for the United States and its allies and, when directed, deny an adversary freedom of action in space. . . . There are also a number of prevention and negation efforts underway to include a space control technology development program. . . [to develop] capabilities that will have temporary and reversible effects on systems used for purposes hostile to U.S. national security interests." (128)
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CDI National Missile Defense Issue Brief with Updates
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