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By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
"When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to
merely have an American presence in space...we must have American
dominance in space."
- President Donald J. Trump, June 18, 2018
This past June 18th President Trump
announced during a nationally televised press conference held at a
meeting of the National Space Council, that he is directing the
Pentagon to establish and have operational by 2020 a sixth branch of
our armed forces. Calling it Space Force, this branch would be
dedicated to protecting American interests in space starting with the
directing of commercial space traffic and the monitoring of space
debris...as in the junk left over from both man's journeys into space
and no longer used satellites and other communications equipment
orbiting the Earth.
And the issue of space debris...or space garbage as some call it...should
not be something to laugh at for according to NASA there are roughly
20,000 pieces of space debris larger than a softball orbiting the
Earth, about 500,000 pieces of debris the size of a marble or larger,
along with millions of pieces that are too small to register, yet all
are a danger to both commercial and military space equipment. And
while right now the Air Force Space Command deals as best they can
with this specific issue as well as their overseeing Department of Defense
satellites...with other space related activities divvied out to the
Navy, Army, and intelligence agencies...President Trump rightfully
feels that a separate military branch would better serve not only the
specific issue of space debris, but would help to consolidate all our
space interests into one specific branch of our armed forces...a
branch whose job would be to focus on space and only space one
hundred percent of the time.
But as always Democrats don't see the
logic in this...or in anything else President Trump proposes for that
matter... leading the usual cast of Democrat characters and Rino
naysayers to jump into the fray to help put a damper on America's
future in space. And why have they done so besides it being Trump's
idea...in a word 'money.' Money as in current allocated budget monies that
would need to be shifting away from the Democrats guaranteed votes
garnering welfare and such programs, and be shifted into the defense
budget. And while the likes of Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director
of the Arms Control Association, claims instead that, “At best
this is simply the creation of an additional D.O.D. Bureaucracy,”
and that, “At worst, it is the first step in an accelerated
competition between the U.S., China and Russia in the space realm
that is going to be more difficult to avert without direct talks
about responsible rules of the road,” know that nothing could
be further from the truth as it remains all about money, votes, and
stopping the Trump agenda.
“Maybe, just maybe, we should make
sure our people are not dying because they lack health insurance
before we start spending billions to militarize outer space,” so
said socialist loon Bernie Sanders, who also said Trump is
anti-science. Guess he doesn't know that anything space involves science.
And the naysayers also willfully ignore the fact that with
this new branch of the military would come both the much needed
compartmentalizing and restructuring of all the responsibilities of who
does what in regards to our U.S. presence in space...while still
remaining separate from NASA albeit with NASA's support...and thus
would save monies in the long run. And then there's the sad fact that these folks could care less that Space Force would become yet another
step in helping to reestablish American dominance in space for he who
controls space controls Earth...it really is that simple.
And that is something Russia gets and
we best get it too.
But not so surprisingly it's this very
dominance issue that has left open the policy debate about the actual
importance of space during a time of war. “At a time when we are
trying to integrate the department’s joint warfighting functions, I
do not wish to add a separate service that would likely present a
narrower and even parochial approach to space operations,” were
the words of none other than Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis, a man supposedly on Trump's side.
And Gen. Mattis wrote those words just
a short year ago when President Trump first proposed a Space Force to
our military leaders. And while some were decidedly onboard with
Trump's plan, Gen. Mattis instead chose to write a letter to Rep. Michael R.
Turner (R-Oh), the chairman of the House Tactical Air and Land Forces
Subcommittee and the very man he knew vehemently opposed any
legislative effort by the House Armed Services Committee to create a
space division of the military. And why did Turner oppose
Space Force...because he said it needed congressional authorization
and approval as per the Constitution's words that Congress has the
authority “to raise and support armies,” forgetting
that Space Force is not an army per se.
And
Gen. Mattis, who sent that lettereven while knowing that Space Force would be a key adjunct to
all-important U.S. intelligence gathering operations, has now
suddenly flipped-flopped on his written opinion which he also has publicly stated. Now saying just a few days ago, while with VP Mike Pence, that he is satisfied that creating Space Force as a
separate military service is the right way to reorganize the
Pentagon’s approach to space, Mattis is claiming that what he meant
before was that, “What I was against was rushing to do that
(create Space Force) before we could define the problem.”
To that I say Mattis is fooling no
one as political expediency trumps all in cesspool that is D.C., and
while I believe Gen. James Mattis is a great military tactician, he is not
now nor was he ever truly in President Trump's corner. Shades of
Trump detractor former National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster
I'd say, and it's been rumored in D.C. that Mattis will be to the next
one to go. But either way, if he stays or if he goes, I do not believe Gen.
Mattis should have any part in something as important as Space Force.
“We have the Air Force, and we’re
going to have the space force...separate but equal,” said
President Trump.
But thankfully President Trump is moving
forward with his plans to create Space Force for those opposing such
a move do not really understand the serious ramifications involved if
we do not do so, including the fact that both Russia and China are
currently working to develop weapons to jam, blind and/or destroy
satellites that are crucial to our communications systems. And
remember, Space Force is the next logical next step in making sure
that America's military remains number one no matter that certain Air
Force hierarchy are currently against this idea, and not for monetary
reasons but for the usual inane bureaucratic reasons alone.
“The Pentagon is complicated
enough,” so said Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson adding
that, “This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the
organization chart.” No it will not...and bureaucracy be
damned...for what it will do is help create a separate but equal
armed forces department that is desperately needed if for no other
reason than because we have a lot of money invested in space and we
need to have a single-focused department overseeing this investment.
And then there's the inescapable fact that conflicts here on Earth
could someday...and maybe in the not so distant future...actually end
up being fought in space. And while some love to imagine a star-wars type battle
being fought between the U.S. and Russia or even between the U.S. and
China, while such a battle would never be on a scale like that, a battle itself is not an impossibility as Russia decidedly wants to gain
more power in space. And with us still needing
Russia to take our astronauts into space...score one for Russia...Russia firmly believes that by becoming number one in space
would then afford them victory in any future battles they might need to fight
here on Earth.
And China, while not currently involved in actual space endeavors per se, a few years ago created what they call the Strategic Support Force, a
department meant to both “streamline and improve its space,
cyber, and electronic warfare missions.” Preparing for future
battles it seems... battles that logic itself dictates will someday be
fought... and if China is fighting said battles it won't be battles over
simple satellite interruptions caused by hackers messing with
signals. And how do we know this...remember back to 2007 when
China deliberately destroyed one of its own satellites in a test of a
weapon that could be used to target and destroy other nations satellites...satellites that are crucial to both military and civilian communications
systems. In other words, China has bigger fish to fry. And not to be forgotten is that Russia has also tested such a missile that could
be used to track and destroy satellites...not good folks...not good
at all.
And don't think for a minute that this is not a concern of
President Trump because it is, and to that affect know that the
Pentagon is already rumored to be working on technology designed to
fight a war in space...a computer v. computer war that is with a few
specially designed fighter jets thrown in for good measure. And also know that such efforts already have amounted to billions of dollars in government
spending each year, much of it buried within...shh...“classified
military programs.”
Gotta do
what we gotta do when it comes to keeping 'We the People' safe.
In fact, just a few weeks ago Vice
President Mike Pence said during a speech at the Pentagon that,
"As President Trump has said, in his words, it is not enough to
merely have an American presence in space — we must have American
dominance in space. And so we will...space is, in his words, a
war-fighting domain just like land and air and sea.”
And both President Trump and VP
Mike Pence are right, but with one important caveat not said...that
being that for decades or more likely centuries to come...American
dominance in space...American military dominance in space to be more
specific...will not see us playing games like cowboys v. aliens for
the survival of Earth...but will see us fighting space battles from
right here on Earth... most times involving the rendering useless of
an enemy's communications and global positioning satellites. And this
will be done, as I hinted above, by well-trained U.S. military
computer experts and hackers along with civilian computer geeks and
hackers (albeit ones on our government payroll) v. the same
on the enemy's side.
So while we are already number
one in space exploration in terms of spending, number of assets, and
technology advancements it would be a logical assumption to say that U.S.
military advancements would not be far behind. But not to forgotten
is that in today's world it's all about computers, and with the age of computers
having begun with NASA's reaching for the stars, it would seem
quite apropos that whichever country has the best computer
technology will be the one who controls space...and needless to say I sure hope it is us.
Just something to think about
because it really is that simple. Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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