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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: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday March 04 2019, @01:30AM (3 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday March 04 2019, @01:30AM (#809643)

    Close all overseas bases that aren't paid for by the host country...

    The people of Okinawa have been trying to get their base closed down for years, but the US and the Japanese central government just won't listen to them.

    I am pretty sure that's a common sentiment in Germany also.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 04 2019, @03:06PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday March 04 2019, @03:06PM (#809786) Journal

    The US suffered 75,000 casualties taking Okinawa in WWII. In a sense, they paid in blood for the territory the base is sitting on. Same deal with Germany.

    If the locals don't like it, then they shouldn't start wars as they did because there are consequences for defeat. By historical standards they should be grateful they even still exist at all. At the time US propaganda pushed for their extermination. Admiral Halsey was famously quoted, "Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell."

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @04:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @04:08PM (#809818)

      Bad, but not quite 75,000 bad?
          https://www.historyhit.com/casualties-battle-of-okinawa/ [historyhit.com]

      By the time the Battle of Okinawa came to an end on 22 June, American forces had suffered more than 45,000 casualties, including 12,500 killed. Japanese deaths may have been higher than 100,000. Add to this the civilian death toll and the terrible cost of Okinawa becomes clear.

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday March 04 2019, @07:02PM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday March 04 2019, @07:02PM (#809919)

      Has nothing changed since 1945?