Space Command head addresses China, Russia threats; calls for international norms: 'It's the wild, Wild West'

U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations General John 'Jay' Raymond explained the need to have international norms for conduct in space, citing actions by Russia and China.

"They're really doing two things: the first thing they're doing is they're building space capabilities for their own use, so just like we've enjoyed space capabilities that we've been able to integrate, China has built a space program to do the same thing," Raymond said while noting this "provides them advantage and that provides risk to our forces. The other thing that they're doing, they have seen the advantages that space has provided us as: we've integrated space and cyber and multi domain operations, and to be honest they don't like what they see."

Raymond further explained that while space operations are hardly something new, the area has exploded in recent years to the point of being far more difficult to manage.