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Preparing for Tomorrow's Wars: The U.S. Space Force

Instructor
Joseph Sassoon
SPL03302
Video Catch-up
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Course Description

The Trump Administration created a new military branch called the U.S. Space Force, tasked with developing space-based vehicles that are capable of gliding to earth from very high altitudes while traveling at speeds exceeding 3000 mph, or five times the speed of sound. These new space-based weapons greatly reduce the time it takes to deliver a nuclear-tipped bomb from about thirty minutes to less than five minutes. China's new space-based glide vehicle is called "Sky-Star 2." Russia has been experimenting with a high-speed air-launched weapon called "Kinzahl." The next global war, should it come, will undoubtedly be fought using weapons attacking from space. Kahn will evaluate the possibility/probability of such a conflict.

Course Info

  • Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Date: Wednesday, March 30
  • Location: Friedberg Auditorium, Lifelong Learning Building
  • Fees: Member - $30
    $75 for any combination of three events, members only
    Non-member - $35
    One-time guest pass, Member or Non-member at the door - $35.

About the Instructor

  • Joseph Sassoon, Ph.D. is a Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford. In 2013, his book Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the prestigious British-Kuwait Prize for the best book on the Middle East. Sassoon completed his Ph.D at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has published extensively on Iraq and its economy and on the Middle East. His fifth book is titled: The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire (Pantheon, 2022)