Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:pnphoq01avj@drn.newsguy.com:
> more at
> https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/space-force-military-air-forc
> e-825757
>
> A bipartisan group that includes generals and lawmakers fears that
> carving the new branch out of the Air Force would siphon resources
> from other programs and weaken the military.
>
> Republican Reps. Steve Knight of California and Mike Coffman of
> Colorado would appear the ideal champions of a new military branch
> focused on space.
>
> Three of Knight's top five donors are aerospace giants Northrop
> Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell, which would be well-positioned
> to help build and outfit it. And Coffman's district is an epicenter of
> the military's current space operations.
>
> Instead, the pair is leading the rebellion to President Donald Trump's
> Space Force.
>
> the Air Force would siphon resources from other defense programs,
> strip them of authority or even weaken the military. They include
> lawmakers who serve on committees with direct jurisdiction over the
> Services panel.
>
> They pose a potentially fatal danger to the president's proposal,
> which needs Congress to overcome a host of financial and logistical
> obstacles to carry out what would be the most sweeping U.S. military
> reorganization since the creation of the Air Force out of the Army Air
> Forces in 1947. Already, some leading players are predicting Trump
> will not get everything he wants.
>
> "I think it's a really bad idea," Coffman, whose district includes
> Buckley Air Force Base and the 460th Space Wing, said in an interview.
> "I have worked to reduce the size of the Pentagon bureaucracy. And now
> we have a plan by this administration to expand that bureaucracy by
>
>
> more at
> https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/space-force-military-air-forc
> e-825757
This is one of those "ideas" - like firing
all trans troops - that Trump makes without
consulting anyone. This is the problem when
people with no experience in government are
put in charge of government. It is not a
corporation, you cannot just give an order
and make something happen.
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