The Space Force???? [View all]
What a fucking moron.
Trump directs DOD to establish a Space Force in a surprise announcement today
President Donald Trump directed the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the Armed Forces in a meeting with the National Space Council today.
We are going to have the Air Force and were going to have the Space Force, separate but equal. It is going to be something so important, President Trump said. Separate but equal is an appalling turn of phrase given that its derived from Plessy v. Ferguson, the now-overturned Supreme Court precedent for segregation.
The announcement came as a surprise in a meeting where the newly revived National Space Council was set to unveil the first comprehensive policy on space traffic management. The whole point of todays meeting was not about this at all, it was about the space traffic management policy decision, says Brian Weeden, director of program planning for the Secure World Foundation an NGO that focuses on space policy.
Still, this isnt the first time weve heard about Trumps hopes for a Space Force; he first proposed the idea of a Space Force in March 2018 contradicting Defense Secretary Jim Mattis opposition to creating a new military service. In a letter to the Committee on Armed Services, Mattis argued that it would just create more overhead and bureaucracy.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17475466/trump-space-force-announcement-national-space-council