The US ‘Space Force’ and Its Implications
Trump’s proposed ‘space force’ responds to the quandary of how the US can best protect American assets in space.
By Namrata Goswami
June 22, 2018
On June 18, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the establishment of a “space force†as the sixth branch of the United States military, “separate but equal†to the U.S. Air Force (USAF), which has overseen U.S. military space operations. Some have compared it to the moment when the USAF itself was established in September 1947, as a separate entity from the U.S. Army, of which it was, until then, a subordinate part.
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