Trump backed space force after lobbying by officials with ties to aerospace industry

[dherd]

"You know, I was saying it the other day, because we're doing a tremendous amount of work in space — I said maybe we need a new force. We'll call it the 'space force,'" he said. "And I was not really serious. And then I said what a great idea — maybe we'll have to do that."
The origin of the space force wasn't that simple.
The concept had been pushed unsuccessfully since 2016 by a small group of current and former government officials — some with deep financial ties to the aerospace industry — who see creation of the sixth military service as a surefire way to increase Pentagon spending on satellite and other space systems.
The story of how that happened is a window into the chaotic way Trump sometimes makes decisions, often by bypassing traditional bureaucracy to tout ideas that work well as applause lines but aren't fully thought out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...aerospace-industry/ar-BBM5XmY?ocid=spartandhp

 

[HerdBuckeye]

Space force, Bahahaha......

 

[ThunderCat98]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ya...ilitary-worst-nightmare-russia-130000301.html

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ya...ilitary-worst-nightmare-russia-130000301.html

Which has nothing to do with the fact that the Air Force already does and can continue to handle this area of defense. The addition of another military branch and the bureaucracy that comes with it is inefficient in itself. Of course, such a bureaucracy is another black hole for money to disappear into, and the people lobbying for this farce know this.

 

[AmeriKenny]

Replace Picard's voice with Trump's voice in the beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Trump: "Space, the final frontier..."