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No joke: Biden poised to build upon Trump's treasured Space Force

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It was Donald Trump’s baby, but it’s Joe Biden’s charge now.
The creation of the U.S. Space Force, America’s newest military service, became fodder …

It was Donald Trump’s baby, but it’s Joe Biden’s charge now. The creation of the U.S. Space Force, America’s newest military service, became fodder for late-night TV hosts and political cartoonists when it came to life with Mr. Trump’s signing of the $738 billion defense bill in December 2019. Online critics mocked the logo design as a rip-off of Star Trek, made fun of the “Guardians” nickname for members of the force and questioned where it would fit in the Pentagon’s long-established service hierarchy. But Mr. Trump saw U.S. Space Force as one of the signature accomplishments of his administration, giving it pride of place in virtually every campaign speech and rally. The Space Force was the first line of the last public address Mr. Trump gave as president, when he told his departure ceremony at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday that “we created a new force called Space Force. That in itself would be a major achievement for a regular administration, [but] we were not a regular administration.” It is also one part of Mr. Trump’s presidential legacy that his successor appears ready to build upon. The U.S. Space Force is intended to be a centralized, unified command that is responsible for overseeing U.S. military operations in space. The satellites that will fall under the service handle operations of global positioning systems, detection of enemy missile launches and more. Mr. Trump called space “the world’s newest war-fighting domain” during the signing ceremony in December 2019 that officially created the first separate branch of the military since the 1940s. “Amid grave threats to our national security, American superiority in space is absolutely vital,” he said. “We’re leading, but we’re not leading by enough, and very shortly we’ll be leading by a lot.” In November, Mr. Trump included the Space Force in his Thanksgiving telephone call to members of the armed forces. “You are pioneers in the newest branch of the armed forces.

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