Trump Orders Pentagon To Establish “Space Force”

CNBC reports:



President Donald Trump declared Monday he would move to make a new branch of the military focused solely on space. “I am hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces,” Trump said during a meeting of the National Space Council.

“Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security,” Trump said. The addition of a sixth sister service branch to the U.S. military would be the first in 71 years. The U.S. Air Force is the nation’s youngest branch and was added shortly after World War II.