US Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday unveiled plans for the creation of a separate \u201cSpace Force\u201d as the sixth branch of American military.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time has come to establish the United States Space Force,\u201d he said in a speech at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust as we\u2019ve done in ages past, the United States meet the emerging threats on this new battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new branch will have a separate command by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpace Force all the way!,\u201d President Donald Trump tweeted from his resort in New Jersey where he is vacationing.<\/p>\n
Trump has pushed for the separate space command against the advise of his top military leaders, including secretary of defence James Mattis, who opposed the creation of a new force in a letter to Senator John McCain, the head of the Senate armed services committee.<\/p>\n
Trump said in June that he had \u201cto immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
The White House said in a fact-sheet released after Pence\u2019s announcement that with Space Force as a sixth branch of the United States military, \u201cAmerica\u2019s interests in space will receive the focus and investment that the domain deserves\u201d.<\/p>\n
And as the world\u2019s space development leader, the United States \u201crelies on space for everything from popular commercial systems to critical military and intelligence systems\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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