This would be an easy-to-dismiss article if David Montgomery were one of the right-wing crazies, like columnist Marc Thiessen, that the Post publishes on a regular basis. I’m tempted to laugh at myself as I type these sentences because I, too, greeted news of the Space Force with incredulous guffaws… What I missed at the time, though - and what everyone else mocking Space Force doesn’t seem to appreciate - is the sheer range of problems that could ensue if other countries are able to establish extraterrestrial military supremacy. In The Washington Post, for instance, David Montgomery wrote a long encomium in the magazine section in early December entitled “Trump’s Excellent Space Force Adventure.”Ĭreating a Space Force is arguably an excellent idea, one for which Trump may deservedly go down in history, along with all the other things he will be remembered for. militarism, it has even generated some unexpected praise. Not only have very few voices of protest been raised against this extraordinary expansion of U.S. Congress approved Trump’s initiative, which was folded into the annual National Defense Authorization Act, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote at the end of 2019. Unlike virtually everything else that Trump has touched, this boondoggle has generated almost no controversy.
Yet what Trump has put together is fundamentally different, and potentially more destabilizing, than the previous incarnation. Bush administration repurposed after 9/11 to focus on the war in Afghanistan. It’s a revival of a Reagan-era initiative that had been set up to oversee missile defense, which the George W. The Space Force is not exactly a new idea. With a stroke of a pen, Donald Trump created an entirely new branch of the armed forces last year.
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