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Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower Kindle Edition

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When President Donald J. Trump announced the creation of America's sixth branch of the military, the United States Space Force, many in Washington scoffed. But, U.S. rivals in China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea took notice. Since the end of the Cold War, these American foes have chafed under the full-spectrum dominance that the American superpower has enjoyed globally. They have identified space as a key strategic domain where they can challenge—and possibly defeat—the United States military. And, depriving the U.S. military and/or its economy of access to space during an international crisis could spell doom for the United States in other strategic domains (land, sea, air, and cyberspace). After all, space is critical for America's vaunted information dominance. Satellites overhead are the backbone of America's global military. Remove them from orbit and U.S. forces worldwide are rendered deaf, dumb, and blind. What's more, space is a more than $1 trillion economy just waiting to be developed. Whichever country gets there first will have considerable economic and geopolitical power on Earth. Despite President Trump's creation of the Space Force, Swamp Dwellers in Washington continue resisting his reforms to U.S. space and technology policy.Winning Space tracks the increasing competition the United States is facing in the technology sector and depicts how the United States has been engaged in a Second Space Race—and how it has been losing. Author Brandon Weichert warns how the United States is at risk for a Pearl Harbor-type event in space. Weichert advocates for the full embrace of Trump's reforms for America's flailing space policy, while also calling for a minimum $1 trillion investment in advanced research and development here in the United States, to stay ahead of America's advancing foes. Contrary to what many Americans may think, the United States has been declining in space and the high-technology development sector. Should it lose its dominance in these areas, it will surely lose its superpower status. The next decade presents U.S. policymakers one last chance to preserve the superpower status that America fought two world wars and the Cold War to build. Time is not on our side. We are on notice, but we have not noticed.

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Excellent book on the competition the U.S. faces in outer space
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Excellent book on the competition the U.S. faces in outer space
The author, Brandon Weichert, does an excellent job putting this "space race" in proper perspective. The U.S. is currently the most dominant player, but there are others who want to take our place. Space is critical for America’s vaunted information dominance. Satellites in space are critical infrastructure are the backbone of America’s global military. If they are gone, we become "blind" to the rest of the world.Mr. Weichert points out that this "space race" is going to be a huge economy, and the country who gets their first will have considerably more economic and geopolitical on the planet.It is crucial the United States gets their first----Our freedom as the world's superpower depends on it.I recommend this book highly!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024
This book provides a concise view of the state of American, with plentiful citations for further reading. If you are interested in space, this is a book for you
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Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
Outstanding analysis and overview of the challenges the U.S. is facing in space. In my opinion, good read. Highly Recommend.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2020
After reading Moltz i was sold on a global institutionalist approach to space; Winning Space makes a compelling case for a more nationalistic/unitlateral/dominant approach.

This book is not an even-handed exposition about policy, it is a warning and political prescription for how to act in space. His political narrative makes the book more engaging than those of his contemporaries.

Although it is political-and generally pro-Trump-it is clear that Weichert's interest is not partisanship, but averting a space Pearl Harbor that would cause global misery. I hope he gets everything he wants.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021
Brandon Weichert has produced a very timely book on the New Race for Space. As soon as I finished reading the book I started coming across news articles discussing what he had been writing about. He is right when he implies that who rules the space domain will effectively become THE superpower. Ruling space translates into innovating and maintaining technological superiority in a number of fields: AI, 5-6G, quantum computing and internet, drones, satellites, digital currencies, blockchain, all sorts of military applications, etc.

There will be a race for mining space resources on the moon, asteroids, and Mars. Any great power that has not strategically invested in the space domain, will be extremely vulnerable. An attack on a target country's satellite system or via the use of an EMP could diffuse any attempt they have in a retaliatory response as their communications would be down.

Apart from analyzing the American, Chinese, and Russian positions, he looks at the rest of the competition: India, Israel, Brazil, Japan, and more.

Ultimately, if America doesn't invest in the final frontier, it will lose its superpower status. The severe socio-economic and cultural divisions plaguing the United States will only make it more difficult to work together toward common goals as Weichert explains in his book. "Winning Space" is of great value and provides a broad perspective, bringing people not terribly familiar with the topic up-to-speed.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2020
Fantastic read! Totally brilliant insight into history, using the comparison of past failures to predict what will be current failures due to insane policies and legislation. Most members of Congress are morally narcissistic and are blind to everything out of their tiny world of control. Mr. Weichert scares the living daylights out of his reader because he shows the stupidity demonstrated by Congresses and presidents of the past and the Congress of the present. Wars are always won or prevented by having control of the high ground. Few members of Congress understand military strategy and so they ignore the dire warnings of losing America to tyrannical leaders of socialistic societies. Mr. Weichert explains why America is facing a Space Pearl Harbor and what history can teach us in how to prevent such a catastrophe from happening. He shows the reader what needs to be done right now and how the protection of American lives can be achieved in face of a Space War. His writing style is very easy to read and understand, and is not at all technical. I believe even a Congressman would be able to understand his logic and his proof of concepts. Creating the Space Force is a baby step in the right direction.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2020
This is not a good book and certainly not worth the $27.99 I spent on it. I recommend looking elsewhere for a serious discussion on U.S. space policy. To be clear, the author Brandon Weichert, is correct that space is essential to not only U.S. national security, but also U.S. economic growth and overall competitiveness on the world stage. Further, the United States continues to lose its overall advantage in space and the advantages it derives from space as other countries make up ground and close the gap. This is a critical topic area that should be widely discussed and debated, but Weichert does it a disservice on many levels, specifically:

1. Hyper-partisan rhetoric. This text is filled with name-calling of the left. U.S. national security is not a right or left issue, it is an American issue. Generally speaking, when authors freely cast blame and resort to name calling, rather than identifying opposing arguments and countering them with substance, it is a sign that they have not done their homework and can’t substantiate their viewpoints. There are constant references to the nihilism of the Left. Nihilism is defined by Merriam Webster as “a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless.” It is perfectly acceptable to disagree with “the Left” or progressive policies, debate is an essential part of democratic society, but it is absurd to say that “the Left” believes that existence is senseless and useless. That is not a fair representation of a good portion of “the Left.” The sycophantic references to President Trump are also annoying and provide no real value to the arguments.

2. Loose and unsubstantiated assertions. Weichert makes a number of loose and unsubstantiated assertions throughout the book, which makes it read more like a bad grad school paper than a serious text on a national security topic. He should remove the frequent hyper-partisan language and cultural references and cannibalize that space for a more focused discussion on the topic and to back up some of his assertions. There is also frequent use of the term “at cost” throughout this book that makes me think that Weichert either doesn’t understand what that term actually means, doesn’t understand the subject matter he is describing, or both.

3. Factual errors. There are some blatant factual errors, which makes me question the overall research. For example, on page 184, Weichert states, “In June 1967, Israel was surprise attacked by its overwhelmingly large Arab neighbors during the Six-Day War.” Israel was not “surprise attacked” in June 1967. Yes, Arab countries had amassed forces by the border with the likely intent to attack Israel, but Israel launched a preemptive airstrike that destroyed a good portion of the Egyptian Air Force, which greatly contributed to Israel establishing air supremacy during the short conflict. When basic facts like these are misconstrued in order to substantiate a point it makes me think that the author is either not really researching his subject matter or deliberately misleading the reader.

4. A clear lack of editing. This book does not appear to have undergone any professional editing. Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine, but there are multiple grammatical errors in this book which gives me the impression it did not undergo any serious review prior to publication.

This book appears to be a rushed first draft rather than a thoughtful and pointed discussion on a critical topic of U.S. national security. It is clear that Weichert is enthusiastic about the subject matter and hopefully he will mature as a writer in the future.
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Reviewed in Italy on November 9, 2020
A very well written book, with interesting, essential and direct paragraphs to the point of the question. It offers a future-oriented geopolitical analysis of space conquest and the related strategies to be adopted: to tell the truth I was not thinking of a "strike" in 2022, but in fact, thinking about it with the elements provided, it becomes evident that the threat is next. I was really happy with the purchase.