{"id":366013,"date":"2018-06-19T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-final-frontier-trumps-pricey-plan-for-a-new-space-force\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T23:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:11:39","slug":"the-final-frontier-trumps-pricey-plan-for-a-new-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-final-frontier-trumps-pricey-plan-for-a-new-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Frontier? Trump&#8217;s Pricey Plan for a New Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-31323\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>President Trump surprised his audience at the National Space Council yesterday when he announced that he would create a new \u201cSpace Force\u201d to be \u201cseparate but equal\u201d to the US Air Force. Congress must act to create a new branch of military service, but will the power of the military lobbyists win the day? Is \u201cdominating\u201d space really a matter of critical national security, as Trump claimed, or is this another costly boondoggle? Tune in to today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-e94VxlnR-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/wU6UNEkiH2M\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump surprised his audience at the National Space Council yesterday when he announced that he would create a new \u201cSpace Force\u201d to be \u201cseparate but equal\u201d to the US Air Force. Congress must act to create a new branch of military service, but will the power of the military lobbyists win the day? Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}