Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:ptnkhn01phg@drn.newsguy.com:
> more at
> https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2018/11/white-house-seeks-alternati
> ves-independent-space-force/153119/
>
> White House Seeks Alternatives to Independent Space Force
>
> For months, Pentagon officials have been rushing to prepare plans for
> an independent Space Force, a sixth branch of the military ordered up
> by President Trump. But since Oct. 26, they have been marching to new
> White House orders: go back and look at different ways to reorganize
>
> One of the four new options is an old one, defense officials said: a
> space corps that would be part of the Air Force, the way the Marine
> Corps is part of the Department of the Navy. The proposed structure is
> similar to a bipartisan proposal that passed in the House but failed
> in the Senate last year.
>
> Why the second thoughts? The officials, who spoke on the condition of
> anonymity, suggested that some in the Trump administration fear that
> the proposed independent Space Force might not make it through
> Congress.
>
> A former senior defense official said Pentagon officials would be more
> them little wiggle room.
>
> The four options, according to one of the officials, include:
>
> 1) an Air Force-owned space corps that includes only Air Force assets,
>
> 2) an Air Force-owned space corps that also takes space-related troops
> and assets from the Army and Navy,
>
> 3) an independent service that takes from the Air Force, Army, and
> Navy, and
>
> 4) an independent service that takes from the three services plus
> parts of the intelligence community.
>
> Vice President Mike Pence and Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick
> the options.
>
> for a Space Force as a sixth military service branch to implement the
> Department spokesman, said in an email.
Needless to say, this is something neither
the Pentagon nor Air Force saw a need for. Nor
something their budgets has room for.
But Trump had a late night brain fart, put
it in a tweet, and now billions have to be pulled
from other military needs to accomodate it.
No wonder so many retired generals and admirals
are trying to warn us how dangerous Trump is....
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