Two top military commanders have praised what they said was the critical role of space operations in the early days of Operation Epic Fury, but they were loathe to say what, exactly, the US military was doing in the highest, at times most secretive domain.
“A note about the Space Force. Our space superiority has been a critical enabler to this fight. Unseen by the world, the Space Force is doing two things. First, they’re degrading Iranian capability and second, they’re helping to protect American forces, and I’ll have to leave it right there,” Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), said Wednesday in a short video address on X.
Cooper’s remarks followed those in a similar vein made by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine regarding the important role of US Space and Cyber Commands in the early hours of the war. “The first movers were US CYBERCOM and US SPACECOM layering non-kinetic effects, disrupting and degrading and blinding Iran’s ability to see, communicate and respond,” he told reporters on March 2.
But like Cooper, Caine left it there. And service spokespeople mostly followed suit. When queried for this report, a Space Force spokesperson referred all questions to CENTCOM and/or the Pentagon; spokespersons from SPACECOM and CENTCOM declined to go into details citing “operational security” concerns.
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