Tuesday, May 20, 2003 – 12:00 Noon.20
The Army & Navy Club, 901 17th Street, NW20
Sponsored by the George Marshall Institute (http://www.marshall.org/)
Lunch provided – Reservations required (RSVP to info@marshall.org or
202.296.9655)
Nearly half a century into the ‘Space Age’, is it finally possible to
extract the principles of ‘Space Power’ in the same way that Mahan
encoded ‘Sea Power’ and Mitchell, ‘Air Power’? Can national policies be
chosen on a more rational basis than short-term domestic advantages,
esthetics, and even whim? Oberg describes some fundamental principles
that are needed more often — and some common misconceptions that still
need to be eliminated — for weighing future policies and programs
across the military, scientific, and commercial arenas of space
activities.
James Oberg worked for 22 years as a space engineer in Houston, where he
specialized in NASA space shuttle operations for orbital rendezvous, as
a contractor employee. He has written ten books and a thousand magazine
and newspaper articles on all aspects of space flight. Among these books
are Red Star in Orbit, New Earths, Pioneering Space, The New Race for
Space, and Uncovering Soviet Disasters. His last book, Theory of Space
Power, commissioned by the US Space Command, described how the United
States has achieved space superiority and how it can exploit and
maintain it into the next century
Oberg will sell copies of his books, including 91Space Power Theory92,
after the event.
Contact:
Jeff Kueter, Executive Director, George Marshall Institute
1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20006
202.296.0983/202.296.9655 // 202.296.9714 (fax)
kueter@marshall.org
