{"id":366811,"date":"2018-06-26T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T09:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-space-force-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T09:34:46","slug":"the-space-force-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-space-force-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Space Force – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/strong>Last Monday, Donald Trump announced that he\u2019s establishing a new, sixth branch of the military known as the \u201cSpace Force.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sounds like a joke. But Trump\u2019s dead serious about this. Here\u2019s what he said:<\/p>\n

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Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security\u2026<\/p>\n

When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s one of the strangest stories I\u2019ve ever come across. So, I called up Doug Casey as soon as I heard it, to get his take\u2026<\/p>\n\n

Justin:\u00a0<\/strong>Doug, what do you think about the creation of a Space Force?<\/p>\n

Doug:\u00a0<\/strong>I thought there was an understanding amongst governments that they weren\u2019t going to militarize space, as much as there\u2019s an understanding that Antarctica won\u2019t be militarized. Nice ideas. Ideally you want the smallest militaries possible, in the fewest places possible\u2014instead of large militaries absolutely everywhere. In fact, my ideal would be to limit the size of the military to the head of state and his cabinet, and their area of operations to an octagon, or a small arena someplace.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s unrealistic. Weak old men prefer to have foolish young men fight for them, at taxpayer expense.
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That said, anything that can be militarized will be militarized in today\u2019s world. So an American Space Force was inevitable. And there\u2019s no point in kvetching about the inevitable. But it takes risks and expenses up to the next level.<\/p>\n

Once space is militarized, the Space Force could\u2014is intended to\u2014destroy any or all of the thousands of satellites in space for communications, science, and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Justin\u2019s note:\u00a0Last Monday, Donald Trump announced that he\u2019s establishing a new, sixth branch of the military known as the \u201cSpace Force.\u201d It sounds like a joke. But Trump\u2019s dead serious about this. Here\u2019s what he said: Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security\u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}