An unmanned aerial vehicle—an MQ-1 Predator—crashed five miles southeast of Baghdad Airport on Jan. 17. US Central Command Air Forces officials report no damages, no injuries, and no indications that the incident was due to hostile activity.
The stand-up of the Space Force, and now its early overhaul and the creation of a new Space Systems Command, are all about resilience: Ensuring that space capabilities, which the whole country relies on, could survive a concerted attack by a near-peer adversary. As part of that drive, a new…