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www.cnbc.com

President Trump directs Defense Department to 'immediately begin the process' of establishing 'space force' as sixth military branch

The White House, Air Force and Defense Secretary James Mattis had disapproved of creating a sixth branch of the military last year.
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www.independent.co.uk

Donald Trump orders Pentagon to set up 'Space Force' within US military

President has repeatedly floated the idea of a space force as he pushes to redouble America's extraterrestrial efforts
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www.reuters.com

Trump directs establishment of U.S. force to dominate space

President Donald Trump on Monday said he was clearing the way for the United States to exercise extra-terrestrial dominance by establishing a new, sixth branch of the military that he dubbed a "space force."
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Trump orders establishment of 'space force' as 6th branch of military

Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately establish a national “space force” that would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.
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Today Trump ordered the Pentagon to establish the 6th U.S. military branch, the U.S. Space Force.

Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately establish a national “space force” that would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.

“We are going to have a space force,” Trump said in Washington D.C. “An Air Force and a Space Force. Separate, but equal.”

This is not the first time that Trump has floated the idea of establishing a “space force.” The president mentioned the idea in May during a ceremony at the White House honoring the Army Black Knights college football team.

Trump did not go into details about what military role the so-called “space force” would carry out or who would command it, but he framed space as a national security issue, saying he does not want "China and Russia and other countries leading us."

The president said the United States will "be the leader by far" in space and is looking to revive the nation's flagging space program by returning the United States to the moon and soon reaching Mars.
 
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I dunno. I always imagined if we seriously started considering space as a battleground, it'd be a joint-country force that all nations contributed to, but I guess this just confirms that Eagleland is the only country with the infrastructure to get this kind of thing done.


I'm saying it now. There's a ten percent chance Trump's formed the Space Force because there's evidence of aliens about to come out. (And about a 70 percent chance that the Space Force was formed because "Hey, we're already doing military shit in space; might as well get a cool uniform to go along with it!")
 
Pokemonquistador2 said:
I dunno. I always imagined if we seriously started considering space as a battleground, it'd be a joint-country force that all nations contributed to, but I guess this just confirms that Eagleland is the only country with the infrastructure to get this kind of thing done.


I'm saying it now. There's a ten percent chance Trump's formed the Space Force because there's evidence of aliens about to come out. (And about a 70 percent chance that the Space Force was formed because "Hey, we're already doing military shit in space; might as well get a cool uniform to go along with it!")
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I always wondered what first contact would be like, but I have a bad feeling that it would involve someone trying to fuck the aliens.
 
Pokemonquistador2 said:
I dunno. I always imagined if we seriously started considering space as a battleground, it'd be a joint-country force that all nations contributed to, but I guess this just confirms that Eagleland is the only country with the infrastructure to get this kind of thing done.


I'm saying it now. There's a ten percent chance Trump's formed the Space Force because there's evidence of aliens about to come out. (And about a 70 percent chance that the Space Force was formed because "Hey, we're already doing military shit in space; might as well get a cool uniform to go along with it!")
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Not just a fancy uniform. It also needs a bitching motto to.

In my head canon it is "Sic Itur Ad Astra"
 
Get_your_kicks_with_30-06 said:
Just one step closer to having ODST's from Halo. Now that I think about something like the ODST would legit be a huge strategic advantage to just drop from orbit at ridiculously fast speeds and almost impossible to see and predict until its too late. Trump make it happen!
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The USMC has already mulled over the idea of suborbital combat drops and written up some proposals for the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSTAIN_(military)
 
Warhammer 3k

In The Grim Present, There is Only Ceaseless Bitching About Defense Appropriations.
 
Pokemonquistador2 said:
I dunno. I always imagined if we seriously started considering space as a battleground, it'd be a joint-country force that all nations contributed to, but I guess this just confirms that Eagleland is the only country with the infrastructure to get this kind of thing done.


I'm saying it now. There's a ten percent chance Trump's formed the Space Force because there's evidence of aliens about to come out. (And about a 70 percent chance that the Space Force was formed because "Hey, we're already doing military shit in space; might as well get a cool uniform to go along with it!")
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I think it's because he's a boomer, and boomers get all tumescent over astronauts and cowboys.
 
Pokemonquistador2 said:
I dunno. I always imagined if we seriously started considering space as a battleground, it'd be a joint-country force that all nations contributed to, but I guess this just confirms that Eagleland is the only country with the infrastructure to get this kind of thing done.


I'm saying it now. There's a ten percent chance Trump's formed the Space Force because there's evidence of aliens about to come out. (And about a 70 percent chance that the Space Force was formed because "Hey, we're already doing military shit in space; might as well get a cool uniform to go along with it!")
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I’m still skeptical of aliens, simply because alien contact would shatter our fundamental understanding of the universe. It would necessarily indicate that either:
1. FTL travel or teleportation is actually possible, or
2. Our universe is literally teeming with life, because the probability that two intelligent species developing in the same galactic neighborhood in the same timeframe is literally infinitesimal in the currently empty relatively empty universe we have hypothesized.
 
Honestly I'm waiting for two things out of this entire thing so I can live out my days as a background character in a Leiji Matsumoto work.

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HumanHive said:
America can, must, and WILL invade the Moon!
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I'm pretty sure we actually technically already conquered the moon. We went there, planted our flag, and no natives have rose up and drove us off. I think it's ours by conventional wisdom. I know we signed some stupid treaty that the moon was neutral for all mankind or whatever, but I don't see anyone else trying to take it from us.

Mars is next.
 
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I'm pretty sure we actually technically already conquered the moon. We went there, planted our flag, and no natives have rose up and drove us off. I think it's ours by conventional wisdom. I know we signed some stupid treaty that the moon was neutral for all mankind or whatever, but I don't see anyone else trying to take it from us.

Mars is next.
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Merely a temporary expedition. Moon base by 2030!
 
Pickle Dick said:
There was something about the Space Force in my Twitter's "trending" tab earlier today full of tweets of almost nothing but MUH FREE COLLEGE/HEALTHCARE/ETC. or LOL REPUBLICANS DIE IN SPACE

Anyway, I'm pretty excited to see what the newest branch of the Armed Forces will bring us
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That's what I hate the most about today's political climate: hating something you like just because the "other guy" did it. The same people who are ragging about the new Space Force likely give themselves stroke jobs to Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweets.

I am extremely excited about the idea of a Space Force and hopes this turns into actual military expeditions into space. I couldn't give two fucks about the militarization of space, but I am interested by a defense department that can afford to take risks and push technology without worrying about breaking even.
 
Get_your_kicks_with_30-06 said:
Just one step closer to having ODST's from Halo. Now that I think about something like the ODST would legit be a huge strategic advantage to just drop from orbit at ridiculously fast speeds and almost impossible to see and predict until its too late. Trump make it happen!
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Helljumper, Helljumper, where you been?
 
It's morbidly funny because Space is a stunningly inhospitable environment with ten-thousand things that could kill you every day. Any people sent up there as part of a Space Force are going to have around 99% of the tech budget devoted to just keeping them alive and the remaining 1% to actually kill their enemies. We're entering real-world Milo Minderbinder territory here where it makes more sense for both sides to each shoot some of their own soldiers and save a few billion in their military budgets.

If there's a future in Space warfare, it'll need to be automated if only for economic reasons. Maybe we'll get the odd sub-orbital troop drop at most.
 
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