![]() The two books are lacking in areas which one or the other discusses. The four themes that run across these books are: (a) maintaining the status quo and delayed weaponisation, (b) a security paradox, (c) indiscriminate space debris, and (d) multipolarity. Naturally, Klein draws heavily on Julian Corbett’s concepts, but adapts them and coins new concepts for the unique space environment. John Klein’s objective is to devise a maritime-based military space strategic theory to guide activities, policy and most of all, warfare, in outer space. China features as the main potential adversary throughout, and is posited as the enemy in Chapter 4, which is an elaboration of a future scenario: a conflict with the United States over Taiwan. Michael O’Hanlon’s book is specifically about American weaponisation policy and what the United States should do to best serve its interests in space and international relations. These two books differ widely in scope and original objectives, but both authors discuss the very pressing issue of the United States’ position of superiority in space which is being challenged by the growth of the numbers of actors in outer space and the strength of their individual presence. Klein, Space Warfare: Strategy, Principles and Policy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006) O’Hanlon, Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Uses of Space (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004)
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