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Mike Pence: It's Time for Congress to Establish the Space Force

posted by martyb on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the Space-Force-or-Space-Farce? dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

The Washington Post has an editorial by Vice President Pence, asking Congress to pass our National Defense Authorization Act for, or of 2020. Which will create a 6th branch of the United States military, called the United States Space Force. It's going to be part of the Air Force, but, this one won't be in the air. It will be in space. And there's no air, there. An excerpt:

Under this proposal, the Space Force would be within the Air Force, similar to the placement of the Marine Corps within the Navy. More than any other organization, the Air Force has been at the vanguard of building the world’s best military space programs. So, creating the Space Force within the Air Force is the best way to minimize duplication of effort and eliminate bureaucratic inefficiencies.

Just as the Air Force began within the Army before becoming a separate military department, so too will this first step in establishing the Space Force pave the way for a separate military department in the future. The Space Force is the next and the natural evolution of U.S. supremacy in space.

Also at Chicago Tribune.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:33PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:33PM (#809507)

    That ship has sailed before. Russians have had a space force (since the 70s?), and the us had had space command within the air force.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:44PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:44PM (#809512) Journal

    This fact is just completely ignored every time this topic comes up.

    Space Force is mostly a money shuffle and rebranding until otherwise noted (such as an announcement is made that weapons or troops are being stationed in orbit). We already have secret space missions conducted by the Air Force, and they could launch weapons if they wanted to.

    Treaties are pretty much unenforceable unless you have a consensus to impose sanctions or are willing to go to war over the matter. The U.S. can break them or withdraw from them with impunity, e.g. the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty [nbcnews.com].

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