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The US has a military advantage in space. I would expect China, India and now Russia to develop, test and brandish weapons to neutralize this advantage. (I write this as a pro-military American).

If the US doesn’t want space further militarized we could take the symbolic action of dissolving the Space Force and take actual action to forge treaties that slow down the militarization of space.

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You talk as if the space force was not late to the party. Space was already militarized before the space force was established. Russia, China, and others already have branches separate from army navy and air responsible for the space domain. China has been blowing shit up in space for over a decade. Other countries don't just ape whatever America does, sometimes America has to actually develop a credible deterrence to threats.

Let the USAF handle space as it was doing before. It doesn’t need to be organized as the “Space Force.” This is saber rattling. Some multilateral diplomacy could help reduce the arms race.

I got the distinct impression that Space Force was mostly a recruiting tool. Previously my assumption would have been pursue NASA if space flight is the passion, now there's very clearly a military branch to consider if that's more my bag. Plus there's more private sector options now as well...

I don’t see space force as saber rattling. They’re not doing anything that the USAF wasn’t already doing, it’s just a more logical separation of missions.

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