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Subject: Trump Signs Directive to Create a Military Space Force
Date: 19 Feb 2019 18:43:13 -0800
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more at https://www.space.com/president-trump-space-force-directive.html
The Space Force just took a big step from sci-fi-sounding dream toward reality.
President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4 (SPD-4) today (Feb. 19),
ordering the Pentagon to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the
United States military, to go along with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and
Coast Guard.
But the Space Force still has a big hoop to jump through: Congress must approve
the creation of any new military branch. [What Is the U.S. Space Force?]
The main goal of the Space Force is to secure and extend American dominance of
the space domain, Trump and other White House officials have said. Such
reasoning has drawn opposition from various quarters.
"President Trump has called space a new warfighting domain. Space is important
there," Laura Grego, a senior scientist in the Union of Concerned Scientists'
Global Security program, said in a statement today.
"Eighty percent of the nearly 2,000 satellites are civilian, providing critical
"We need to take care of space. If concentrating authority in a space force
creates an incentive for nations to build space weapons that increase the
likelihood of conflict, it would be a profoundly bad idea."
The Space Force would initially reside within the Department of the Air Force,
much as the Marine Corps is part of the U.S. Navy.
through the U.S. Space Force, which will organize, train, and equip military
will be our obligation to ensure unfettered access to, and freedom to operate in
But Trump administration officials have said they eventually aim to push the
Space Force out from under the Air Force's wings and make it a stand-alone
organization.
President Trump first teased the idea of a Space Force in March 2018, in
comments that made it seem like he might have been joking. But the president
signed an executive order directing the creation of the new branch that June.
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