After months of talking , Donald Trump has govern the Pentagon to go ahead and create a " Space Force " . The surprise announcement was made on Monday at a group meeting with the National Space Council , which was actually theorize to concenter on the much less intriguing but still important outcome ofspace traffic direction .
“ We are going to have the Air Force , and we are going to have the Space Force . Separate but adequate , " Trump tell attendees . ( Whether he know he was invoking segregator and Jim Crow palaver by uttering the phrase " disjoined but equal " is unreadable . )
“ I ’m hereby train the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to forthwith begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed force , " he go forward .
obviously , newsperson were not made aware of the direction in the pre - meeting briefing . Nor was it included in fact sheets turn over to the media . But , sources say Pentagon official had been warned the statement was come and would be announced at the meeting , reportsSpace News .
Whether or not this was a pre - plotted announcement or an off - the - cuff remark – a hallmarkof this particular president – the concept of a military division specialized in all thing space has been brew for a while now . Last summer , the House floated the mind of creating aSpace Corps , a program that was later argufy .
More recently , Trump has talk about building a " Space Force " . He first disclosed plans to do soat a conferencein California on March 13 , 2018 .
talk at Monday ’s group meeting , Trump said , " It is not enough to have an American comportment in space , we must have American dominance in quad . "
You would be forgiven for think this sound rather ominous , not to advert reminiscent of the Cold War andspace racebetween the US and the Soviet Union in the 1960s . Especially so as not that long ago , David L Goldfein , a General in the US Air Force and current Air Force Chief of Staff , monish that wars in space could be a “ matter of years ” aside .
However , just because Trump has directed the Pentagon to do something , it does n’t mean it will in reality befall . No date have been put forward detailingwhenwe can expect this Space Force and first it will have have to be approve by Congress . Securing their approval could be more than a little bit tricky – many , both in and out of regime , have already utter criticism regarding Trump ’s latest insurance . Though if it does go ahead , it does n’t wait like it will beshort on recruits .
