President Trump announces that U.S. military will soon have a ‘space force’ to wage war beyond plane

President Trump announces

that U.S. military will soon have a

‘space force’ to wage war beyond planet Earth

President Trump is spacing out.
The commander-in-chief doesn't think the U.S. military is large enough
— so he announced during a bizarre press conference Tuesday
that it will expand beyond planet Earth via a "space force."

"Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea," Trump told a crowd of Marines
at the Miramar military base in California.

"We have the air force. We will have a space force…We will call it the 'space force.'"

Trump didn't make clear what shape this "space force" might take and what adversaries
it would confront.

A Pentagon spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.


Trump touted his proposed military addition as the next "big breaking story."

"Look at all those people back there. Look at that. Oh, that fake news," Trump said,
gesticulating at the reporters present.

"They know, they understand. Think of that. Space force!"

But the idea of a new military branch centered on the cosmos is in fact far from a Trump original.


"We have the air force. We will have a space force," Trump said.

(NY DAILY NEWS ILLUSTRATION)
For decades, proponents and critics have debated adding a dedicated “Space Corps,” which would absorb the Air Force’s current space missions.
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