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The Washington Times has an article up on the authorization of a new Space Command.
Trump signed a one-page memorandum Tuesday authorizing the Defense Department to create the new command. Speaking at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vice President Mike Pence said, "a new era of American national security in space begins today.
The goal is to set up a command to oversee and organize space operations, accelerate technical advances and find more effective ways to defend U.S. assets in space, including the vast constellations of satellites that American forces rely on for navigation, communications and surveillance. The move comes amid growing concerns that China and Russia are working on ways to disrupt, disable or even destroy U.S. satellites."
This is distinct from the President's goal (enjoyed by both his supporters and detractors) of creating a separate "Space Force" military branch.
The article also notes that the Space Command is not new and that
A U.S. Space Command existed from 1985 to 2002, but was disbanded in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks so that U.S. Northern Command could be established, focusing on defense of the homeland.
Sadly, if it hadn't been for that, we might already have Space Marines.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @01:45AM
By "Space Force" you mean the space forces that the Navy and Air Force already had for at least 20 goddamn years each? I think we should rid our existing military branches of Obama's fifth-columnist AIDS pozz before we give them unstoppable space weapons that can rain doom from the heavens.
Then I would join the Space Force and name our first such declassified weapons system "Kefka's Tower."
As it is, our so-called "space forces" are a bunch of dweebs who go to work in blues every day sitting on their asses, and once in awhile they may have to maneuver an obsolete satellite into a collision-course with another, Russian, obsolete piece of junk.