Spinning it out into its own branch gives it institutional inertia that makes it harder to wind down, though. That same institutional inertia will also help it perpetuate itself in a way that, say, an individual Air Force program can't.
You're right that Trump didn't create Space Force out of whole cloth, but it's still a significant step in the wrong direction.
Fair enough. It could easily also be considered a step in the direction of humanity's advancement away from war and toward space innovation.
We know the military gets far more funding than anything, so a Space Force will be much better funded than NASA.
The more US resources are diverted from bombing innocents and towards innovation the better. Still, there's a lot of places that could use that funding before a 'Space Force', but that's not the reality of this nation.
Spinning it out into its own branch gives it institutional inertia that makes it harder to wind down, though. That same institutional inertia will also help it perpetuate itself in a way that, say, an individual Air Force program can't.
You're right that Trump didn't create Space Force out of whole cloth, but it's still a significant step in the wrong direction.
Fair enough. It could easily also be considered a step in the direction of humanity's advancement away from war and toward space innovation.
We know the military gets far more funding than anything, so a Space Force will be much better funded than NASA.
The more US resources are diverted from bombing innocents and towards innovation the better. Still, there's a lot of places that could use that funding before a 'Space Force', but that's not the reality of this nation.
It will be satellite-to-satellite weapons, electronic warfare, and surveillance
It would be that in the Air Force anyway.