Schriever Wargame 2010 - Air Force Space Command

Introduction
General C. Robert Kehler, USAF
Commander, Air Force Space Command
The Schriever Wargame series has been an incredible success
for Air Force Space Command and the National Security
Space community, to include our allied and commercial
space partners. The series has evolved from the first game in
2001, and has grown both in sophistication and participation.
This year, 550 military and civilian experts from more than 30
government agencies and the countries of Australia, Canada,
and Great Britain participated in the wargame. The Title 10
wargame series provides an opportunity to examine issues surrounding
space policy and rules of engagement and to explore
organizational alternatives. As a result, we have a greater understanding
of the issues related to conflicts that involve space
and cyberspace and we are developing a cadre of military and
civilian members who are fluent in these issues in relation to the
needs of combatant commanders.
The value of the series is due largely to the high caliber of
the participants. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the advisors
and participants who made Schriever Wargame 2010 (SW 10)
a rewarding and beneficial experience. The team assembled at
Nellis AFB, Nevada included our allies, commercial and industry
partners, policy experts, and senior statesmen. Their perspectives
and insights increased the sophistication of gameplay
and exposed key policy questions; many are examined in this
issue of the High Frontier Journal. The articles in this edition
provide a multi-dimensional view of major lessons learned during
the wargame.
It is important to note that the Schriever Wargame series is
more expansive than the gameplay at Nellis AFB. The initial
interaction for SW 10 began in February 2010 with the Senior
Leadership Seminar. This gathering of key government, allied,
Figure 1. General C. Robert Kehler and General Lance W. Lord, retired,
at the Senior Leadership Seminar in Washington, DC for Schriever
Wargame 2010.
and industry leaders provided a venue to discuss the SW 10 scenario
and to illuminate the key space and cyberspace issues that
could influence policy and decision-making in a future conflict.
For the first time, we aligned the Schriever Wargame with the
chief of staff of the Air Force’s Title 10 wargame, Unified Engagement,
in order to complement the Air Force-wide wargame
effort.
The robustness of the wargame has produced valuable insights
and has influenced current policy debates and decisionmaking.
As many of our authors in this issue note, there may be
inherent value in evolving the Joint Space Operations Center to
a Combined Space Operations Center. Others note that conflict
involving space is not isolated to one domain. And we found
the Cold War era deterrence theories may not be well suited for
application in the space and cyberspace domains.
This issue of the High Frontier Journal is a natural precursor
to our next issue which will examine strategic space policy.
The release of the National Space Policy in June 2010 provides
the president’s direction for the nation’s space activities. As we
have found with the Schriever Wargame series, our strategic
space policy is vital to freedom of action in and through space.
I look forward to the dynamic discussion this topic will generate
in the next journal.
General C. Robert “Bob” Kehler
(BS, Education, Pennsylvania State
University; MS, Public Administration,
University of Oklahoma;
MA, National Security and Strategic
Studies, Naval War College,
Newport, Rhode Island) is commander,
Air Force Space Command
(AFSPC), Peterson AFB, Colorado.
He is responsible for organizing,
equipping, training and maintaining
mission-ready space and cyberspace
capabilities for North American
Aerospace Defense Command,
US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and other combatant commands
around the world. General Kehler oversees Air Force network
operations; manages a global network of satellite command and control,
communications, missile warning and space launch facilities; and
is responsible for space system development and acquisition. He leads
more than 46,000 professionals, assigned to 88 locations worldwide
and deployed to an additional 35 global locations.
General Kehler has commanded at the squadron, group and wing
levels, and has a broad range of operational and command tours in
ICBM operations, space launch, space operations, missile warning,
and space control. The general has served on the AFSPC staff, Air
Staff, and Joint Staff and served as the director of the National Security
Space Office. Prior to assuming his current position, General
Kehler was the deputy commander, USSTRATCOM, where he helped
provide the president and secretary of defense with a broad range of
strategic capabilities and options for the joint warfighter through several
diverse mission areas, including space operations, integrated missile
defense, computer network operations, and global strike.
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