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Dan Caine told airmen, guardians, and industry figures during his keynote address at the Air, Space, and Cyber Conference.Caine later repeated the thought\u2014\u201ctoday\u2019s modern battlefield operates from the seabed to cislunar space\u201d\u2014but he did not clarify whether he meant on the moon\u2019s surface. U.S. law is ambiguous, defining cislunar space as \u201cthe region of space from the Earth out to and including the region around the surface of the moon.\u201d At least one Harvard Law Journal article interprets the clause to mean on the moon itself, and the White House\u2019s National Cislunar Science and Technology Action Plan explicitly said in late 2024 that it includes the lunar surface. 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A provision inserted by the Senate Armed Service Committee in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act tasks the Defense Department with assessing its \u201cspace law requirements\u201d to face rising threats and examine \u201coptions for establishing a dedicated legal organization within the Air Force, Space Force, or Space Command.\u201d The amendment adds that senators are \u201cconcerned that current legal, policy, and institutional structures within the Department of Defense may not have kept pace with the complexity of space operations.\u201dThose clarified legal norms may not emerge until it\u2019s too late.\u201cUltimately, I think the first space conflict might be the time when most of these rules get written,\u201d Brynildson said."
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