This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

Last year, President Trump’s National Security Strategy rightly emphasized the enormous importance of outer space to our security and economic wellbeing.  Now, he’s considering creating a new military branch, the Space Force, to ensure that our enemies cannot dominate this strategic high ground to our grave detriment. 

Unfortunately, some of those enemies are far advanced in trying to do just that. The Russians have long had anti-satellite capabilities and maintained such a robust ability to gain access to space that we have long paid them to get rides to our space station. 

Meanwhile, the Chinese have been developing satellites capable of maneuvering and attacking ours.  They’re also working on anti-satellite lasers, space planes, weapons platforms in space and their own militarized space station, leading ultimately to a People’s Liberation Army base on the moon.

We need a Space Force, now.

This is Frank Gaffney.