Trump has announced the Space Force Military

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It has been considered that the United States might have a 6^th military branch in the future, especially focused on space. Today, CNBC reported, the U.S President Donald Trump delivered his words during a meeting of National Space Council that he has been called for the establishment of a Special Space Force. He said that he has directed the U.S Department of Defense and Pentagon to take essential steps to start the process of establishment of a Space Force. Point to be noted that he has delivered similar words during March that space is a warfighting domain just like the land, air, and sea. He accepted at the time that he initially presented the idea as a joke, now it has been considered a great idea.

The U.S Congress is taking essential steps last year towards forming a space branch, but it was unfortunately closed. Now, the U.S House of Representatives added a proposal of Space Corps in its version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Most of the idea will sit within the Air Force much similar to the Marine Corps housed within the Navy. A large number of House Representatives are against the plan, so it didn’t make it into the final version in the bill. It is important that the Pentagon and the White House also opposed the idea in the month of October. The U.S Secretary of Defense, James Mattis forwarded letters to the U.S House and the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mattis said in letters that he is against the creation of a new military service at a time when the U.S has focused on decreasing extra-burden.