We did not need another branch of the armed services and the funding it requires. Laughing it off was a polite dismissal, I would have been much harsher.
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Honestly, I think the Space Force makes more sense than the Air Force, since the 'space domain' is more clearly separated than the operation of the army and the Air Force - the latter of which continues to justify itself on the promise of victory achieved entirely by...
...strategic airpower, a thing which no military has ever managed to do yet anywhere, except maybe with Serbia in '95 (and even then, there was a ground conflict).
