Vice President Mike Pence urged Congress to establish a sixth branch of the military dedicated to space in a speech that outlined the emerging threat of American adversaries turning space into a warfighting domain.
Pence’s speech at the Pentagon on Aug. 9 coincided with the release of a Department of Defense report to Congress on the steps necessary to create such a force, since the power to create a new branch independent of the five existing forces lies with Congress. The report and Pence’s speech mark a major development in the White House’s effort to convince Congress to create and fund the new military branch.
