{"id":3147,"date":"2018-03-15T00:20:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2018-03-15T00:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:20:01","slug":"trump-calls-for-a-space-force-a-concept-his-pentagon-opposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/15\/trump-calls-for-a-space-force-a-concept-his-pentagon-opposes\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP CALLS FOR A SPACE FORCE, A CONCEPT HIS PENTAGON OPPOSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3148\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/SpaceXFalconHeavy-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defense One<\/p>\n<p>By Caroline Houck<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday raised the prospect of creating a \u201cSpace Force,\u201d a new branch of the military service \u2014 and a concept that his leaders at the Pentagon oppose.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force leaders, who oversee the bulk of the military\u2019s satellites and launches, spent the last year fighting off proposed legislation that would have called for standing up a Space Corps as part of the Department of the Air Force, just as the U.S. Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy. Last July, Defense Secretary James Mattis took the unusual step of speaking out against the proposal as it made its way through Congress. Even unnamed White House officials told CNN that creating a space corps was \u201cpremature at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/politics\/2018\/03\/trump-calls-space-force-concept-his-pentagon-opposes\/146647\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defense One By Caroline Houck U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday raised the prospect of creating a \u201cSpace Force,\u201d a new branch of the military service \u2014 and a concept that his leaders at the Pentagon oppose. Air Force leaders, who oversee the bulk of the military\u2019s satellites and launches, spent the last year&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/15\/trump-calls-for-a-space-force-a-concept-his-pentagon-opposes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TRUMP CALLS FOR A SPACE FORCE, A CONCEPT HIS PENTAGON OPPOSES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[499,1193],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-pentagon","tag-trump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}