Boldly going

President Trump has been watching too much Star Trek.  Politico reports:

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the Pentagon to establish a stand-alone Space Force as a new branch of the armed forces.

"We are going to have the Air Force, and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal," Trump said at a meeting of the National Space Council at the White House.

"It is going to be something so important."

He also asked Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford to carry out the process of standing up the new military service.

"Our destiny beyond the earth is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security, so important for our military and people don’t talk about it," Trump said. "When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space."

Ambitious stuff from a man who has spent two years trying, and failing, to get a beautiful wall built.