Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space

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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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