Astroculture and Geocentrism

Chapter 4 builds on the continental insights of the previous chapter and reintroduces the human and cultural element to spacepower in Proposition VI, and considers the dangers of ethnocentrism in spacepower analysis, as well as how cultural factors and the geocentrism of strategic cultures on Earth will influence spacepower. Like any other facet of human activity, cultural and bureaucratic elements will be a part of space strategy, and policy. Strategic culture and military culture are already developing with spacepower. However, whether in a semi-independent Space Force or not, every military organisation will develop astroculture within a geocentric context, much like how continental navies had to fight for recognition and resources within a land-dominated strategic culture.