This is not a joke, this is an actual branch of their military.
This should be alarming because it’s only a matter of time before they start fielding troops in space.
This is not a joke, this is an actual branch of their military.
This should be alarming because it’s only a matter of time before they start fielding troops in space.
It was likely done, in part anyway, as a provocation to Russia and China. Having 1) a subordinate space command, which can’t lobby effectively for funding and weapons, and 2) an independent if severely underfunded “civilian” space agency (NASA) sends the message that the US is mainly interested in space exploration for scientific reasons. By contrast, moving space operations to their own special branch is an open statement of intent to weaponize space.