SWF Advisory Committee Member: New Book Released

SWF Advisory Committee member, Joan Johnson-Freese, Professor and Chair of the Department of National Security Studies at the Naval War College, has a new book just out: Heavenly Ambitions America's Quest to Dominate Space.

In Heavenly Ambitions, Johnson-Freese draws from a myriad of sources to argue that the United States is on the wrong path: first, by politicizing the question of space threats and, second, by continuing to believe that military domination in space is the only way to protect U.S. interests in space.

In her new University of Pennsylvania Press book, Johnson-Freese lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate, and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate - just as no one nation’s military dominates the world’s oceans. This is in the world’s interest and, most important, in the U.S. national interest, she concludes.

For more information on her new book, go to:

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14608.html

-- Leonard David