{"id":31323,"date":"2018-06-19T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31323"},"modified":"2018-06-19T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:23:38","slug":"the-final-frontier-trumps-pricey-plan-for-a-new-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/19\/the-final-frontier-trumps-pricey-plan-for-a-new-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Frontier? Trump&#8217;s Pricey Plan for a New Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump surprised his audience at the National Space Council yesterday when he announced that he would create a new &#8220;Space Force&#8221; to be &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; to the US Air Force. Congress must act to create a new branch of military service, but will the power of the military lobbyists win the day? Is &#8220;dominating&#8221; space really a matter of critical national security, as Trump claimed, or is this another costly boondoggle? Tune in to today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-e94VxlnR-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump surprised his audience at the National Space Council yesterday when he announced that he would create a new &#8220;Space Force&#8221; to be &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; to the US Air Force. Congress must act to create a new branch of military service, but will the power of the military lobbyists win the day? Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31325,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions\/31325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}