Soon after the U.S. Space Force rewrote its mission statement, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated the Air Force and Space Force “cannot sustain deterrence by standing still.” He believes integrated deterrence in its current form is insufficient to deter aggression, especially in space. Deterrence should dissuade adversaries from involving space in any conflicts. The United States’s dwindling space dominance is challenged by peer competitors and near-peer rivals who recognize, likely even more so than the American public, that America’s asymmetric advantage in orbit is also its Achilles’ heel. And they are prepared to supplant America’s leadership in space, relegating...