An Economic Approach to Deterrence Published May 22, 2019 By 2nd Lt Tucker Hutchinson, USAF Air & Space Power Journal, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL An Economic Approach to Deterrence 2nd Lt Tucker Hutchinson, USAF This article explores how the US can use economic policy to deter in space effectively. It identifies China and Russia as revisionist powers and the primary competition for the US. Furthermore, it explores China’s and Russia’s motives and methods of achieving power to understand how the US can use economic policy to deter.