Summary
Space is the new frontier of warfare.
You can already see a turf war developing over who should control U.S. space-warfighting capability – with the White House, Congress and the military services jockeying over how to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars and scores of senior Pentagon command positions.
Gen. Dave Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, repeated like a mantra the phrase "Always the predator, never the prey," in describing how his service views its mission in space.
The Air Force, not surprisingly, insists that it should take the lead.
But some skeptics in Congress and the Trump administration argue that the U.S. needs a new "space force" to oversee the emerging domain of battle. The House proposed last year that this space component should be quasi-independent of the Air Force, the way the Marines operate alongside the Navy; the Senate disagreed.
The old era of uncontested space appears to be over.
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