US Space Force -- Good? Bad? Alternate proposal?

[TFOGGER]

To create such a force may well violate a treaty to which we subscribe...

https://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm...VY7Jc.facebook

[Honey Badger282.8]

Space is a maritime environment and the Navy is the branch with the most expertise in that area. Hell, a lot of the space assets the Air Force operates were developed from technologies and missions pioneered by the Navy; GPS being the most famous example. Leave the Earth-focused space missions to the Air Force and give all manned military missions to the Navy.

To create such a force may well violate a treaty to which we subscribe...

https://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm...VY7Jc.facebook

Just because we can't put weapons of mass destruction in space or create military bases on any celestial bodies doesn't mean there is no military purpose to space. There is no ban of military space stations so long as they do not contain WMDs, there is no ban of military vessels in space. The U.S. Navy has shot down a satellite that had a high probability of surviving reentry with lots of hydrazine onboard. China developed an ASAT (anti-satellite) missile and destroyed one of it's weather satellites while it was still in it's orbital station. The resulting debris fouled an entire orbital plane leading to many secondary impacts and damage to other assets. Space is already militarized.

[Irving]

Just because we can't put weapons of mass destruction in space or create military bases on any celestial bodies doesn't mean there is no military purpose to space. There is no ban of military space stations so long as they do not contain WMDs, there is no ban of military vessels in space. The U.S. Navy has shot down a satellite that had a high probability of surviving reentry with lots of hydrazine onboard. China developed an ASAT (anti-satellite) missile and destroyed one of it's weather satellites while it was still in it's orbital station. The resulting debris fouled an entire orbital plane leading to many secondary impacts and damage to other assets. Space is already militarized.

This. While this conversation may be hitting the main stream populous as a conversation topic now, everyone is pretty much way too late to the conversation.