Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space
Frank Ledwidge, Senior Fellow in Air Power and International Security at the Royal Air Force College and author of Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies, joins the show to talk about warfare’s next frontier, space.
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Show Notes
Frank Ledwidge, Senior Fellow in Air Power and International Security at the Royal Air Force College and author of Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies, joins the show to talk about warfare’s next frontier, space.
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Times
• 01:40 Introduction
• 03:24 Thinking about space
• 09:09 More than a conduit
• 14:15 ASAT
• 19:55 Space domain awareness
• 26:20 Directed energy and nuclear weapons
• 31:16 Congested/competitive/contested
• 39:44 36,000 earths
• 42:15 Commercial incentives
• 45:05 Who has the advantage?
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