Book Review: Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation’s Sixth Armed Service

Military History |

Author: Forrest L. Marion

| Reviewed by Robert D. Bradford III, associate professor of defense and Joint processes, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management, US Army War College

Robert D. Bradford III reviews this “first history” of the United States Space Force. He overviews the author Forrest L. Marion’s resources (“primary sources and extensive oral history interviews”) and highlights the book’s value in the way it “depicts cultural and bureaucratic barriers to . . . organizational change.” Bradford notes the history’s universal applicability as it relates to other situations in which an institution successfully approaches change.
 

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Keywords: United States Space Force, National Defense Authorization Act, Department of Defense, US Air Force, Congress