What is the point of the Space Force?
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LincolnDuncan
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In the 50's kids played at being junior G men. Now adults can run around dressed like Buck Rogers. They won't be able to do much until there like in space but they can patrol and watch the sky. Think of the husband and wife protecting their mansion at gunpoint over imagined fears of BLM. A b8unch of clowns like that in unis with guns taking themselves way too seriously.
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Trump wanted his own branch of the military. That's the entire point of it. The last time a new branch was formed (and at this point it would probably be wise to dissolve it) is the Air Force back in 1947. If this branch had done anything significant that would be one helluva legacy.
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If I recall it right, someone somewhere (who ostensibly knew what they're talking about as they claiming to have been a IT tech in or around army since nineties) said something around the lines that splitting that basket of functionality off as it's own branch might of course seem overly pompous, but it was a way to finally do administrative stuff that had to be done for decades, but had no chance of clear resolutions because of inter-services rivalries. It sorta like had been already planned anyways, Trump simply grabbed it and run with it for the flash of it.
I don't expect those are really going to amount to much.
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The space force is a combatant command in the US armed forces. It's mission is as follows:
The United States Space Force Act codified the Space Force as organized, trained, and equipped to "provide freedom of operation for the United States in, from, and to space" and "provide prompt and sustained space operations," with its stated duties enumerated as to "protect the interests of the United States in space, deter aggression in, from, and to space, and conduct space operations."[13]
On 10 August 2020, the Space Force released its capstone doctrine, Spacepower: Doctrine for Space Forces, further expanding on its enumerated missions and duties. In Spacepower, the Space Force defines its three cornerstone responsibilities, which it articulates why spacepower is vital to U.S. prosperity and security, to provide freedom of action in the space domain, enable joint lethality and effectiveness, and provide independent options to U.S. national leadership capable of achieving national objectives. Spacepower establishes the Space Force's five core competencies: space security, combat power projection, space mobility and logistics, information mobility, and space domain awareness. Spacepower lists the seven spacepower disciplines required for the core competencies as orbital warfare, space electromagnetic warfare, space battle management, space access and sustainment, military intelligence, cyber operations, and engineering and acquisitions.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
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Just a waste of money
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I find it funny how negative the reaction to Space Force is/was, all because 'if trump done it it must be bad.' In fact, Space Force has been wandering toward it's own branch for years, much like Cyber is doing now.
The issue is that the AF, Navy, Army, CIA and others all were in space, but there was unified way to deconflict programs. Putting 'everything in space' under one command makes a lot of sense.
The issue is that the AF, Navy, Army, CIA and others all were in space, but there was unified way to deconflict programs. Putting 'everything in space' under one command makes a lot of sense.
Indeed so, the idea of creating a unified space command was almost inevitable. Having watched the military for years, and studied military history, there are a lot of 'king of the roost' or 'not my job' problems. Basically, having each branch maintain their own space programs meant a lot of duplicated resources and times where cooperation was lacking. It's part of why the Air force was created.
Also, while it is easy to mock it now, we're seeing a rapid change in space flight capability that has a strong potential to move a lot more people and equipment into space in the next few decades. Also we have adversaries with developed space flight capabilities that are looking to exploit what is essentially the ultimate 'high ground'. We really do need an organized command to combat those threats and not one that is essentially treated as an after thought by all of our different branches. Also, if you don't pay attention to the military much, there are very severe rivalries between the different branches and even within them, this has often created issues in scenarios where one branch is called on to directly support the other. One example is the constant bickering over how the air force provides close air support for the army. We really don't want that kind of thing going on in managing our space resources, especially if other countries start trying to put real weapons in space.
Then we have Trump role it out essentially for PR and to puff his own chest. My impression was that the whole notion was rushed because Trump liked the idea and wanted to claim credit for something wiz-bang. That doesn't mean it isn't a good idea, but the initial implementation was painfully groan worthy and it'll take years to repair the damage.
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No it doesn't. Why Dribble? Because we have seen how easy it is brainwash people. Putting all your eggs in one basket is flat out stupid
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That's probably because like every other announcement he made as president, he sounded like a reality TV star about to go to commercial.
Didn't we already have a unified Space Command, under the Air Force?
Not until we build a space elevator. No other technology on the horizon is a real-game changer, it's all just rockets.
After Trump took office, the very first thing he asked NASA was, "Can you put a man on Mars during my term?" Being told no, he seemed to lose interest in the whole field.
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Um, no. It was under...wait for it...the Air Force.
