He should have just assigned that role to the Navy - they have experience is maintaining ships over long distances.
Just another bureaucracy, IMO.
Same argument when the Air Force broke away from the Army...the distinction was two different missions..
Same argument when the Air Force broke away from the Army...the distinction was two different missions..
Not seeing the connection between a sea faring force and outer space military equipment.
What, and have our spaceships crashing into asteroids?
I have had a chance to ask people who I think actually know why this was done. They said space has been an Air Force budget item for years. The Air Force just took the space money and spent it on fighters. So a separate command was necessary to force spending on space defenses.
Just a thought, but maybe he is creating a new bureaucracy to have something outside of the existing ones, that are weaponized against both him and the American people. That way, he has something with its own budget and command structure that wasn't poisoned by Obama.
I just remembered way back to an old Government class where the teacher made the point that it was always easier to create a new bureaucracy than fix an existing one.