@Northwest For the immediate future, space force is going to be concerned with military satellites and anti-satellite operations - and everyone expects space operations to involve and become more central in any warfare with an advanced opponent.
@QuixoticSoul We're complaining that Russia is shadowing one of our spy satellite. The Russians called out the "spy" part as hypocrisy. The Chinese already tested laser, satellite killer weapons. Space, the final frontier.
@Northwest Wait till we get satellites in space that can launch kinetic weapons! All the destruction of a nuke, none of that messy radiation! We won't have to worry about outer space, we won't survive the stuff we have in our own exosphere.
@Pherick I don't know if people remember SDI, from the early 80s. Reagan did not believe in MAD. My school (and some other schools) got a bunch of money, at the time. Years later, it was determined that a terrestrial based laser system, will not work, so it was replaced with a space-to-space, permanently orbiting missile defense shield. I'm sure this is one of the things, if not the only thing, that the Space Force will do, when it gets transferred from the Air Force, where it currently resides.
