{"id":389678,"date":"2018-12-19T04:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-orders-pentagon-to-create-space-command\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T04:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:50:30","slug":"presstv-trump-orders-pentagon-to-create-space-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-orders-pentagon-to-create-space-command\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump orders Pentagon to create &#8216;Space Command&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered the creation of &#8220;Space Command,&#8221; a new organizational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The command will be separate from Trump&#8217;s goal to build an entirely new branch of the military called &#8220;Space Force,&#8221; which has not received approval from Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;I direct the establishment, consistent with United States law, of United States Space Command as a functional Unified Combatant Command,&#8221; Trump said in a memo to Defense Secretary Defense Jim Mattis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Speaking at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral, Vice President Mike Pence said Space Command would integrate space capabilities across all branches of the US military.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;It will develop the space doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures that will enable our war fighters to defend our nation in this new era,&#8221; Pence said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20181219\/9b1acbfc-822a-40d2-8414-a0808b0410f5.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>US Vice President\u00a0Mike\u00a0Pence\u00a0addresses US Air Force&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/19\/583340\/Donald-Trump-Space-Command-Pentagon-Mike-Pence-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered the creation of &#8220;Space Command,&#8221; a new organizational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations. The command will be separate from Trump&#8217;s goal to build an entirely new branch of the military called &#8220;Space Force,&#8221; which has not received approval from Congress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389678","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=389678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}