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  Letter from the Editor
  

  Letter from the journal editor.

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  Hardwired for Hardware: Congressional Adjustments to the Administration’s Defense Budget Requests, 2016 to 2023
  Travis Sharp and Casey Nicastro

  Congress has preferenced programmatic expenditures over personnel and operation and maintenance for the past 8 years. In a time of fiscal austerity, Congress must balance its predilection for hardware with the need to appropriately fund the nonhardware programs and components of the Department.

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  Space and War in Ukraine: Beyond the Satellites
  Robin Dickey and Michael P. Gleason

  International and commercial space information sharing and innovations in terrestrial hardware and software have allowed Ukraine to exceed Russia in the use of space at many levels. The US military can learn lessons from these developments.

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  Asymmetric Warfare in Space: Five Proposals from Chinese Strategic Thought
  Jake Suss

  Eastern strategic thinking applied to new challenges posed by the space domain in the development of broader space strategy expands perspectives and improves durability.

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  US Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve: Integrating Commercial Capabilities for a Resilient and Flexible Space Architecture
  Gary L. Davenport

  As Congress considers funding the CASR program, it can learn key lessons from the structure and implementation of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet.

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  Offensive Dominance in Space
  Brian R. Goodman

  The international military space domain characterized by advancing space mobility and logistics is becoming offensively dominant. This poses security dilemma challenges for the US Space Force in its pursuit of competitive endurance.

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  Decoding the Adversary: Strategic Empathy in an Era of Great Power Competition
  Robert S. Hinck and Sean Cullen

  The concept of strategic empathy links clearly to strategy; moreover, this empathy understood via strategic narratives will help the US succeed in great power competition.

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  Moral Injury: Wounds of an Ethical Warrior
  Douglas E. Lumpkin, Philip N. Stewart, and Joel D. Kornegay

  By understanding moral injury as an expected result of humans at war and as a feature of the ethical warrior, leaders can increase readiness and build more resilient service members.

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  Lethal Targeting through US Airpower: A Consequentialism Perspective
  David J. Kritz and Shane A. Smith

  A consequentialist approach provides a model that can help policymakers in assessing proportional good, aiding ethical decision-making in lethal targeting/targeted killing.

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