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

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: 4, Informative) by linkdude64 on Sunday March 03 2019, @11:20PM (2 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Sunday March 03 2019, @11:20PM (#809593)

    Do you really think Xi or Putin will be sitting at his desk one day and say something like, "Let's get an upper hand on the American GPS system....*GASP* Oh, no! The treaty!...The treaty!...over..powering...me...Let's just be peaceful instead!" and have their breath freed by the Power of the Treaty?

    A locked door keeps out honest people, and that's what the treaty is. The only countries OTHER than the US who want to put weapons in space right now are China and Russia. And NK. If you think "being a role model for the kids" i.e. European countries is important at this point, then you are welcome to submit to the rapes and murders Europeans are experiencing right now. For the people who want to survive, raising a defense is a very unkosher, yet very natural, organic, non-GMO behavior. China and Russia either have plans that have been uncovered, or are already in violation of said treaty without question. "Muh weapons of mass destruction" was an excuse for active warfare over resources. This is not a war for resources - space has no resources. This is a technological arms race only, that won't result in mass deaths, only - hopefully - leaps in innovation that will then trickle out into the public domain over time, while likely remaining a nuclear stalemate as presently is the case.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:17AM (#809719)

    And Iran.

    And Israel. Israel needs it to have leverage over the US.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:42PM (#809940)

    Stop projecting.

    Yanks don't like to do the right thing unless cornered. However I notice that Russia *has* kept to their signatures.

    I used to be a fan. Now I believe that Churchill was right in his estimations.