ABSTRACT
The idea of strategic positions in space has been extensively written about, perhaps more than any other concept regarding space strategy. As with using battlefield high ground for artillery fire in land warfare, using narrow straits that choke maritime communications in naval warfare, and bombing at altitudes high above the reach of most anti-aircraft guns in air warfare, there are advantageous and valuable strategic positions in space warfare as well. Strategic positions are locations that impart some relative advantage from operating there or hold value due to the importance of the activities performed there. Since the inherent value of space is as a means of communication, it then follows that most strategic positions in space are related to accessing and using celestial lines of communications. As such, strategic positions are often located where it is better to have communication routes or where communications already tend to congregate. Those positions dealing with physical communications are used in the movement of space vehicles, equipment, materiel, supplies, and personnel. Those positions dealing with non-physical communications are used in the movement of some weapons effects and electromagnetic transmissions.
