In March 2021, while serving as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, I hosted a discussion with General Chance Saltzman, now Chief of Space Operations for the United States Space Force. We examined how the 1991 Gulf War became, in many respects, the first “space war,” as capabilities such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled precision-guided munitions and enhanced U.S. and allied military operations. 

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