{"id":47212,"date":"2018-03-14T03:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/14\/star-wars-president-trump-proposes-military-space-force\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:03:53","slug":"star-wars-president-trump-proposes-military-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2018\/03\/14\/star-wars-president-trump-proposes-military-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars? President Trump proposes military space force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 America should create its own separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/space\/2018\/02\/28\/2021-a-space-odyssey-space-corps-could-launch-in-three-to-five-years-key-lawmaker-says\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">military space force<\/a>, President Donald Trump mentioned in an offhand remark Tuesday that would change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/03\/14\/trump-discusses-massive-military-buildup-space-force-at-marine-corps-air-station\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" target=\"_blank\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover2279\">the course of U.S. space policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But don\u2019t expect Captain Kirk ordering phasers set on stun, \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d or ray guns blazing in orbit in the near future, space experts said. And some said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2017\/10\/06\/thornberry-theres-no-time-to-wait-for-space-corps\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">a military space force may make it harder to keep Earth\u2019s orbit a place of peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saying his national security strategy \u201crecognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,\u201d Trump said at a San Diego Marine Corps base that he\u2019s considering \u201ca space force\u201d that would be the equivalent of the Air Force, Army and Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2017\/11\/21\/space-for-a-space-corps-congress-lays-groundwork-for-controversial-plan\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635857041717293410-5thstoryjpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Space for a Space Corps? Congress lays groundwork for controversial plan<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. Congress is not creating a new military service devoted to space. But lawmakers who favored a Space Corps won a victory in the National Defense Authorization Act&#039;s aggressive overhaul of the Air Force\u2019s organization for space.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said at first he wasn\u2019t serious when he floated the concept, but \u201cthen I said what a great idea, maybe we\u2019ll have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18072837551957.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18072837551957.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18072837551957.jpg.jpg?resize=300,194 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18072837551957.jpg.jpg?resize=768,496 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (Alex Gallardo\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is more about boosting reconnaissance and cybersecurity than fighting in orbit, said Sean O\u2019Keefe, who was both NASA administrator and Navy secretary under President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/digital-show-dailies\/reagan-defense-forum\/2017\/12\/02\/key-lawmaker-vows-to-continue-space-corps-fight\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">defense secretary and Air Force secretary argued vociferously against it<\/a> when members of Congress pushed it last year, O\u2019Keefe said. You can emphasize more help for the military in space without going to the massive organizational change and expense, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could be a bureaucratic nightmare, said O\u2019Keefe, a professor at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said some people may argue that a space force would \u201ccompromise the sanctity of considering space to be off limits from warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since the Space Age started with the Soviet Union\u2019s launch of Sputnik, there has been a military and national security aspect to space, even though there are treaties and a United Nations committee that explicitly talk about keeping space a place of peace. In the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower established two separate space programs \u2014 a civilian one that became NASA, and a military one. NASA is much more public, but the military program is just as big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military space program has mostly been led by the Air Force. For the past several years, the military has been flying an unmanned space plane, a lot like the retired civilian space shuttle but smaller, experts said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really what we\u2019re already doing but giving elevated status to the mission,\u201d American University space expert Howard McCurdy said of Trump\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military toyed with the idea of an Air Force space station in orbit in the 1960s, but President Richard Nixon\u2019s administration killed the idea, mostly because it found that robotic space efforts were more effective and efficient, McCurdy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCurdy, O\u2019Keefe and others said any space force would probably consist of cadets on the ground operating robotic systems in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronautics professor and former NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman said she prefers space to be as peaceful as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSpace is for exploration and lifting up humanity,\u201d Newman said. \u201cWe should learn from our mistakes on Earth and keep space peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America should create its own separate military space force, President Donald Trump mentioned in an offhand remark Tuesday that would change the course of U.S. space policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":103304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":23,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,163,36,23],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3076,2370],"class_list":["post-47212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-military-space-report","category-newsletters","category-space"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"BWF36XZJQJF2NASJML27JVZHMQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/14\/star-wars-president-trump-proposes-military-space-force\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Star Wars? 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