With Congress flat out refusing to fund the plan in the 2019 military spending bill, the Trump Administration is continuing to insist that they intend to create a new sixth branch of the military, the “Space Force,” by 2020.
Vice President Mike Pence set out the plan on Thursday, saying it was the “next great chapter in the history of our armed forces,” and prepare for the “next battlefield” of America’s wars, which apparently is space.
Pence addressed the lack of Congressional approval, saying that the Space Force won’t be built from scratch just yet, but rather will see an increased centralization of the existing Space Command, which is part of the Air Force, while establishing more space-centric agencies and forces to fill out what would eventually become Space Force, if and when it is ever approved by Congress.
Trump had previously claimed Space Force would be “separate but equal” to the Air Force, and would ensure total US dominance over space into the future. He has insisted he believes space is a place where a lot of stuff is happening.
Trump knows that Israel is fairly advanced with its secret space weaponization program. How that fits in with his thinking is a mystery. Whether he wants to combine with Israel or incorporate Israel’s research into US activity it would seem another aspect of Sheldon Adelson’s pro Israel agenda.
Russia and China are advanced too in Spacecraft
I believe there is someone else who may not be happy to see the U.S., or anyone, weaponizing space.It has been reported by a number of people, military and civilian that we have tracked objects coming FROM deep space and going into orbit around Earth. There may be far more to this ‘Space Force’ than we are being told.
Well, a giant meteor (supposedly) blew up over a US base in Greenland the other day with 2.1 kilotons of force (about 1/7th the size of the Hiroshima bomb). Was it actually a meteor, or was it a warning shot from … well, someone?
Go Space Force! !!
Space belongs to everyone. “Dominance” is a juvenile concept. We need to learn humility. Our world is about to crash. Love is the only thing that survives extinction.
I wholeheartedly agree, Dave, space doesn’t belong to just one or two countries, but to everyone. As you rightly said, ‘dominance” is a juvenile concept. What we sorely need is learning humility (Russia’s Vladimir Putin is an expert at it, so is China’s Xi Jingping). Our world’s in danger of crashing, if nothing’s done to prevent it, and love’s the only thing that survives extinction.
Dave, Love, in the end is the only thing. 🙂
The United States with this militarization of space has broken the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which it helped promote in the UN, a law in force at the UN. Pence, Trump, Congress, and the Media are not even mentioning this treaty. That’s because they are all superficial simpletons full of greed and lust for power. https://history.nasa.gov/1967treaty.html
Someone else broke the Budapest Memorandum Agreement but,I didn’t see you commenting about that issue .Hmmm….I wonder why comrade,I wonder why?
Yes, the United States broke that also by orchestrating the coup that overthrew Yanukovych. Just ask Victoria Nuland. Moreover, Crimeans did not sign that agreement, and broke out of Ukraine on their own accord.
I’m sorry but, just because you repeat that something occurred with no facts or basis doesn’t make it true. You’re leaving out the fact that Ukrainian people wanted to join the European Union and out of Russia’s sphere of influence. They’re puppet president accepted a Russian bailout and didn’t listen to the people who put him in power and his people rose up against him. The Maiden Demonstrations where something that happened because, the Ukrainian president wouldn’t listen to his people. Paul Manafort is on trial this week with his right hand man Rick Gates telling the world exactly how it happened .Russians actually tried to do the same thing they did in Ukraine here in America. What other country would benefit from Ukraine being denied access into NATO or the European Union but,Russia? You see comrade I deal in reality not alternative facts and conspiracy theories, FACTS. You should try it and maybe some of what you’re saying would be taken seriously. It’s easy to invent stories like Chinese ships are coming to help Russia defend Assad against the free world, and Russia’s electronic bombs froze a U.S. warship in the Black Sea, and America can’t defend itself in a war with Russia at the same time we’re surrounding them militarily and tanking their worthless ruble. Spare me the response and please if you do respond deal in reality not conspiracy theories.
The bullets were fired from the same guns Can you tell who the snipers were that shot both The maiden protestors and the police that were supposed to be controlling vthe protesters
China Chines did help Assad
Of course “Space Force” already exists in the Pentagon. It has not yet been formalized for separate budgeting.
Trump’s proposal is therefore nothing more than grandstanding to make himself look “strong”. After Singapore and Helsinki that is necessary.
It depends. Singapore and Helsinki atre the only strong things our leaders did in a llong, long time. Space Force is politics, with a twist. It is not just simple case of politics — showing himself off as “strong”. It is a case of pointing out that space program is lagging behind, and private ventures like Musk made little meaningfull progress. The last attempt at producing replacement for R-180 program amounted to Musk strapping three engines together, and catapulted Tesla car into space. Clearly, for all the show, he did not trust the engine experiment to lift a trully heavy load, and test at least the minimum capacity weight if Russian engine. Considering the sanctioning frenzy in Congress, it must cost them some pride to have to order another batch of engines from Russia, especially as they are dated, and Russia has few mire generations, including new fuels, in their space program today. Once anyone can replace old Russian R-180 currently used by military to fire off Atlsntis rocket, that would be a goid start. Trump is a realist, in sputeboff his show biz credentials.
dieter, Many Presidents have done the same rhing, but they have actually attacked other non threatening nations, such as Viet-Nam, Iraq, Libya, Syria….at least Prez. Trump has not done that, except for his stupid Tomahawk attack on a Syrian base.
OK, all you space cadets out there, please sign up for the new Space Farce! There are aliens to fight, and they’re not just at our southern border. They’re coming in from all over the known and unknown universe. MAGA!
Don’t worry, Trumpy-the way you are going none of us will get to 2020!
Speak for yourself, aren’t you the same one that predicted the end of the world when Trump bombed Syria? Antiwar zombies gotta love them.
So why did Trump bomb Syria ? when he knew he could not rely on his 16 intelligence agencies to tell the truth .
This is an anti-war site, rosemerry. UNCLE WTF, below, seems to have forgotten that. Carry on.
Ok, this is just getting sad..
More like pathetic.
the biggest region of space that needs controlling is the vacuum in Trumps skull…no doubt this move to have some space force will be lauded as some peace initiative
Will we buy our rocket engines from Russia ? what if Russia puts a sanction on them ?