What Does Trump Mean By 'Space Force'?
The president has proposed the creation of a new military branch that his Defense Department actually opposes.
With a fighter jet positioned behind him, President Trump suggested on Tuesday that the United States create another military branch.
“Space is a war-fighting domain just like the land, air, and sea,” Trump said, addressing an audience of Marines at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, California. “We may even have a space force—develop another one—space force. We have the Air Force, we’ll have the space force. We have the Army, the Navy.”
The president said the idea came to him recently. “I was saying it the other
