Why The Space Force Makes Some Sense, And Why It Doesn’t
Trump signs one of his biggest pet projects into reality at exactly the same time the final Star Wars trilogy movie comes out…
But we’re not going to see soldiers immediately flying militarized space craft around, waging inter-galactic wars. (Also, we’re well aware Star Wars is set in the past.) Nor are you going to be able to walk in to a recruiting station right away and sign up.
Still, eventually the Space Force could be one of the biggest pieces of President Trump’s legacy. Easily even bigger than “the wall”. Maybe not bigger than being impeached. Either way, not right away.
The biggest obvious question is why break it off from the Air Force, when the Air Force already has a Space Command? Good question. The last time a new branch of the military was formed was in 1947 when the Air Force broke off from the Army (even though the Army still to this day operates almost as many planes as the Air Force, and the Navy flies planes too). But that was also after two wars in which the U.S. built a huge presence in the air, which hadn’t existed before. And there’s also the little matter of NASA, which is independent and civilian. But has in its history danced on the edge of international conflict many times (though not…
