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Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com)
President Donald Trump signed a directive on Tuesday that ordered the Department of Defense to create a Space Force as a sixth military branch. From a report: With a directive signed Tuesday, Mr. Trump was positioning the Space Force much as the Marine Corps fits into the Navy, officials said, with the result being lower costs and less bureaucracy. The plan would require congressional approval. Mr. Trump is to propose funding in his proposed 2020 budget, and spell out a goal of eventually establishing the Space Force as a separate military department, a senior administration official said. "Space, that's the next step and we have to be prepared," said Mr. Trump, who added that adversaries were training forces and developing technology. "I think we'll have great support from Congress."
The order Mr. Trump signed, Space Policy Directive 4, calls for a legislative proposal by the secretary of defense to establish a chief of staff of the Space Force within the Air Force. That officer would be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to an outline. There also be a new under secretary of defense for space to be appointed by the president. The proposal calls for the Space Force to organize, train and equip personnel to defend the U.S. in space, to provide independent military options for "joint and national leadership" and "enable the lethality and effectiveness of the joint force," according to the administration's outline.
The order Mr. Trump signed, Space Policy Directive 4, calls for a legislative proposal by the secretary of defense to establish a chief of staff of the Space Force within the Air Force. That officer would be a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to an outline. There also be a new under secretary of defense for space to be appointed by the president. The proposal calls for the Space Force to organize, train and equip personnel to defend the U.S. in space, to provide independent military options for "joint and national leadership" and "enable the lethality and effectiveness of the joint force," according to the administration's outline.
Why? Air Force; Space Force. It's what the Russians called their agency (well, in Russian).
We have been getting a lot of direction in Washington from Russia as of late, seems legit.
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People don't like things Trump does just because of how he says them.
Republicans and democrats alike have been calling for a wall for years. Now it's racist.
Experts say management of satellites and other space related work should be coordinated in a single agency.
Trump does it, now it's stupid.
Pure hypocrisy.
The Wall hasn't fallen through. It's still being built. President Trump had to change his tactics because the Democrats proved they're willing to tank our economy and force thousands of Americans to work without pay, solely to keep their train of "voters" coming in from Mexico. But the Wall will be built and is being built.
The Space Force isn't just some dumb vanity project. Like recognizing the capital of Israel is in Jerusalem, all President Trump is doing is recognizing a simple reality: there is already a Space Force inside the US Armed Forces. It's just split across multiple branches, with some branches duplicating efforts of other branches. All that President Trump is doing is changing the organizational structure to make things more efficient.
Fuck me. Nothing but "Orage Man Bad" on Slashdot these days. Can't we fucking discuss the topic?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
TDS is rampant here.
Now the 'Space force' is limited to building radar systems to detect Mexican drug runners using catapults to fling their drugs over the new border wall.
Alas! it was an idea with such high aspirations ...
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