Counter Punch August 10, 2018
This week Vice President Pence announced that the Department of Defense
is beginning a planning process to establish a sixth military branch,
known as the Space Force. Pence’s statement was a public reassurance
that Trump’s sudden announcement of the Space Force was not just another
of the president’s frequent sudden announcements that have no
connection to reality. Pence claimed that this new Space Force military
division will be in place by 2020, and while many in the media are
reacting as if the militarization of space were a sudden departure from
American policy, as with much of the Trump presidency, this policy shift
is only a minor, more grotesque version of what our government has long
routinely undertaken.
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