Posted on 09/01/2018 6:19:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Defense Department is moving ahead with previously announced plans to stand up a four-star U.S. Space Command as part of a broader effort to reorganize military space forces, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Tuesday at a joint news conference at the Pentagon with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford.
Mattis said the new command will be funded with existing resources and staffed with existing personnel.
Congress in the 2018 defense policy bill directed DoD to create a "sub-unified" Space Command under U.S. Strategic Command, but the Pentagon has proposed taking this a step further and forming an independent U.S. Space Command to "improve and evolve space warfighting, including integrating innovative force designs, concepts of operation, doctrines, tactics, techniques and procedures," DoD explained in its proposal submitted to Congress Aug. 9
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The meteor that almost hit a US early warning base in Iceland is a good reason to have a Space Command. Some of those ‘big rocks’ that might crash into the earth might need to be intercepted—somehow. This group can concentrate on that plus other Space Combat issues...
If you dominate space, you dominate the ultimate high ground.
Obi-wan Kenobi dominated space. He had the high ground.
I wanna be a Space Force Ranger
I wanna live the life of danger
The more I consider this the more obvious it becomes the work of an insightful genius, a.k.a. President Trump (or someone he had the insight to hire). Liberal heads have to be exploding because they didn’t think of it first.
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