How will that do it better than the way the Air Force is currently doing it?
A separate branch of the armed forces comes with all the overhead. A separate personnel system. Separate supply system. Separate planning and intelligence and all the other tasks that the Air Force does. If Trump cancelled military exercises in Korea in order to save money there then how can he be in favor of the billions in extra expenses that comes from having a brand new branch of the services?
You can’t really believe that Trump (conditionally) cancelled the Korean war games just to save money. Context, context,context.
Assets in place versus the current method of launching is intenable in a action, of course depending on the methods used by the aggressor. For instance if we look at a space based laser we omit issues of atmosphere etc. from diffusing the beam. Also at that altitude we have a broader field of view and actionable space as well as recon and surveillance capability.
To put it simply, if they have birds in the air what can be done but try to knock them, down even if terrestrial line of sight is impaired, or use strategically placed stations outside the atmosphere and catch them outside that envelope or near to it as they wait for the earths rotation to come back down again.
Think Anti artillery to use an older model
Air Force is a more regional force with specific functions and targets, think of the 2 main elements, Strategy & Tactics. and in that guise slow moving aircraft flying insane distances even in stealth mode are utilized in a different way
JMHO
The same argument could’ve been used in 1947. We seemed to do fine in two world wars with an Army Air Corps. Most of the characters in Hogan’s Heroes were in the Army.