DATE:                                  September 23rd - 3:30 pm PST
LOCATION:                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4poPU6HAUzk&list=PLsHyFalhOoq4-dGEpqMEpbYvzm1JOSAy7&index=10

• Sept 23 – Adam Crigler IRL Video Show: Space Commercialization, China, & Space Force
  • Participants
    • Michael Laine​

Sean McClain, MBA, MSS, Maj USSF

Sean McClain is currently on active duty with the US Air Force at Headquarters Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale AFB, LA.  He recently completed his 2nd Masters degree through Air University’s Air Command and Staff College Online Masters Program (ACSC OLMP).  His thesis, “Celestial Sentinels: A Framework for Cislunar Space Domain Awareness in 2035,” was cleared for public release in April 2020.
A 2007 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, he has served multiple operational tours in ICBMs, Missile Warning, and Satellite C2 at Minot AFB, ND; Clear AFS, AK; and Schriever AFB, CO; respectively.  His last assignment was Requirements Manager in the Space Domain Awareness Branch, Space Superiority Division, Directorate for Strategic Requirements, Architectures, and Analysis, Headquarters Air Force Space Command at Peterson AFB, CO between July 2017 and July 2019.  Since 2015, Sean’s career has also featured extensive science and technology (S&T), experimentation and innovation-related work.
He continues to serve in the Air Force until his transfer to Space Force is officially approved by Congress, and currently lives in Louisiana with his wife and son.
His views expressed are his own and do not represent the USAF, USSF or any other US Government entity.

Josh Carlson, MA, MSS, Capt USA (res)

​Joshua P. Carlson is the author of Spacepower Ascendant, a book independently published through Kindle Publishing and available through Amazon. It was the culmination of nearly twelve months of dedicated research and evaluation of both the US’ and China’s view of the space domain – and the ongoing strategic conflict there.
 
He serves in both the Army and Air Force in different capacities, serving at LA Air Force Base for nearly ten years and the California Army National Guard for fifteen. He has also deployed with the Army to the Middle East in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in 2018 and attended the Air Command and Staff College through the Air Force, graduating in 2020.
 
He is currently working on a new book with an as-yet unpublished author that is targeted for next year. The new book will examine similarities in all dimensions, what missions need to be emphasized in various phases of space development, and examine the space domain to provide recommendations on USSF development. Additionally, has been invited to speak on a few shows, including the US Space Force Association. He looks forward to continuing to advocate for a more holistic look at space and looking toward expansion/exploitation of space resources for national and global benefit.
 
He continues to serve in both the USAF and Army, and currently lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
 
His views expressed are his own and do not represent the USAF, US Army, US Space Force or any other US Government entity.
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https://www.spacepowerascendant.org/

Namrata Goswami, PhD

​Dr. Namrata Goswami is an independent analyst and author on space policy, great power politics, and ethnic conflicts. She is a subject matter expert in international affairs with the Futures Laboratory, Alabama, USA and guest lecturer, India Today Class, Emory University. After earning her Ph.D. in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, she served for nearly a decade as Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, working on ethnic conflicts in India’s Northeast and China-India border conflict.  Her research and expertise generated opportunities for collaborations abroad, and she accepted visiting fellowships at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; the La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and the University of Heidelberg, Germany.  In 2012, she was selected as a Jennings-Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington D.C. and was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellowship that same year. Shortly after relocating to the U.S, she established her own strategy and policy consultancy in 2016. In 2016-2017, she won the prestigious MINERVA grant awarded by the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense (OSD) to study great power competition in the grey zone of outer space. In 2017, she was awarded a contract with Joint Special Forces University (JSOU) to write a monograph on ISIS in Asia. In April 2019, Dr. Goswami testified before the U.S-China Economic and Security Review Commission on China’s space program. Dr. Goswami is a Resource Person for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) ‘Emerging Security Challenges Working Group.’  In 2013, she received the Executive Leadership Certificate sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, National Defense University (NDU), and the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). Her latest book on The Naga Ethnic Movement for a Separate Homeland Stories from the Field has been published by Oxford University Press in March 2020. Her forthcoming co-authored book is on ‘Great Power Competition in Outer’ space’ to be published by Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, this fall.

Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space  - available on Amazon