Foreign ties are crucial to US space dominance, officials say
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Expanding and strengthening U.S. military ties with space-capable nations will be key to staying ahead in the global competition for space dominance, officials said Tuesday. “Space warfare is a complex and difficult type of warfare in general, and not a type of warfare that one country can do by themselves. And so we know that we need partners to be able to help us to do the things that we need to do, to be able to cover all the space terrain and the challen
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