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Paul D. Shinkman, US News and World Report: The Coming War in Space
The Joint Chiefs briefed President Donald Trump on space, as officials consider how to keep it benign amid Russia and China’s ambitions.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California – Gen. David Goldfein, the fighter pilot who now serves as the Air Force's top officer, had an unorthodox priority on his mind when he and the rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat down for their first meeting with President Donald Trump on Jan. 27 to outline for the incoming commander in chief their top operational concerns.
"We talked about space more than any other topic," Goldfein recalls from that session in "the Tank," the Pentagon's secure facility for top-level meetings, "because there's this debate going on now, and will go on for the remainder of this year: Where are we headed in the business of space?"
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WNU Editor: Space is the Achilles Heel for the U.S. military. Lose it and much of the advantages that the U.S. has in conducting warfare will be lost .... especially in any hypothetical major global conflict.
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