Space has crossed a strategic threshold: what was once a domain of scientific exploration and superpower symbolism is now infrastructure for communications, navigation, intelligence, and the projection of national power, and the decisions being made now will determine who controls that infrastructure and on what terms. In this course, students will develop a rigorous analytical framework for understanding space as an instrument of national power, integrating the technical, strategic, legal, and commercial dimensions within a single architecture rather than treating them as separate specialties. Students will assess U.S. and allied space programs at the level of execution, evaluate existing governance frameworks against the environment they are actually being asked to govern, develop and defend policy options at the level of the NSC, Congress, and allied governments, and carry that framework into the roles they will occupy after this course ends.